Ice Cream Mints is a live rosin from Punch Extracts, the solventless arm of Punch Edibles & Extracts in Canoga Park, in the San Fernando Valley. The rosin is pressed from a hybrid cross of Ice Cream Cake × Kush Mints, two modern dessert-and-gas cultivars that each carry a deep California family tree behind them.
Punch sells Ice Cream Mints as a 1g Tier 2 live rosin. One retail batch listed in Moreno Valley tested at 75.28% THC and 0.29% CBD, with a sweet, minty, creamy flavor called out on the menu.
Fresh-frozen flower, ice water and a press
Punch builds its live rosin on fresh-frozen flower instead of dried and cured buds. Freezing the plant at harvest holds onto the terpenes that drying tends to strip away. That frozen material is washed into hash with purified ice and water, then pressed through fine mesh to separate the oil from plant matter.
No hydrocarbon or alcohol solvent touches the process at any stage. Punch runs the work in a climate-controlled room and labels the whole category craft solventless extraction. The company's live rosin comes in two finishes, fresh press and cold cure badder, so the same wash can end up as either texture.
Punch sorts its live rosin into 4 tiers, and the Moreno Valley listing places Ice Cream Mints in Tier 2. Beyond the jars, Punch Extracts makes vapes, distillate and Rocket pre-rolls, which pair 1.3 grams of flower with 0.3 grams of live rosin.
Ice Cream Cake brings the Cookies side
Ice Cream Cake supplies the first half of the name. It comes from Wedding Cake × Gelato #33, pairing two well-known dessert-named cultivars. The result is an indica-dominant hybrid with a big yield and light green and purple buds buried in frosty trichomes.
Hash Writer's 2021 look at Punch traced the Ice Cream Cake in this cross to Emerald Queen Farms and the Kush Mints to another California light-dep farm. Growers finish Ice Cream Cake in 8–9 weeks, indoors or out, and it tends to run medium-tall. Its dominant terpenes are caryophyllene, limonene and linalool. In the rosin, the Ice Cream Cake side brings the heavier, more relaxed half of the experience.
Kush Mints adds the mint and the OG weight
The second parent is Kush Mints, a cross of Animal Mints × Bubba Kush. It is a balanced hybrid with an 8–9 week flowering window, a short-to-medium frame and a medium yield. Limonene leads its terpene profile, and mint, menthol and pine notes give the concentrate its second name.
Kush Mints tests high, with Leafly listing 28% THC against 22% for Ice Cream Cake. In the finished rosin, the Kush Mints side supplies the brighter, more uplifting half, balancing the heavier Ice Cream Cake parent.
Ice Mintz and the same pairing in Humboldt
Seed Junky Genetics works the Ice Cream Cake × Kush Mints pairing under the name Ice Mintz. Emerald Queen Farms grows that version in Willow Creek, Humboldt County, as outdoor, sungrown and mixed-light flower in native soil. Nasha Hasha turns the harvest into a 1.2g hand-rolled Red Label hash sphere.
The Humboldt hash and the Punch rosin start from the same two parents and end up as two different solventless formats. One is a traditional pressed ball for topping a bowl or a joint. The other is a Los Angeles live rosin sold by the gram, built on the same parent pair that Leafly documents for Ice Cream Cake and Kush Mints. For fans of either parent, Ice Cream Mints is the dab version of the cross.