Platinum Cake is In House Genetics' cross of Wedding Cake and The Platinum, and it reads considerably heavier than the dessert name suggests. Woody, earthy and pine-forward. Society C press it as a full solventless live hash rosin badder: ice, water, heat and pressure, and nothing else in the chain.
Three words, three sequential steps
Live hash rosin badder describes a sequence rather than a single process. Ice-water hash is washed from fresh-frozen material. That hash is pressed with heat and pressure into rosin. The rosin is then agitated through a cold cure until it sets opaque and spreadable as badder.
No hydrocarbon solvent touches any stage. Live means the input was frozen at or near harvest rather than dried and cured first, which is where the brighter top end of a solventless press comes from.
Badder is only the finishing texture at the end of that chain. On its own the word says nothing about how the material started, which is why everything in front of it carries the weight.
The heaviest link is the wash
Of those three steps, the ice-water wash is where most product is won or lost.
That is the argument for single-sourcing. Society C presses from its own single-sourced flower, one cultivar in and one cultivar out, with no blending to hit a volume target.
Society C out of Orion Township
Society C launched in 2019 under Natrabis, founded by Nick Simpson, Ben Puraj and Michael Thomas, three Michigan caregiver-market veterans.
Their Orion Township facility opened in 2021 at 54,000 square feet, running nine flowering rooms and producing roughly 450 pounds a week, with an on-site lab for concentrates. That scale is what makes single-sourcing practical: a smaller operation would have to blend to keep a solventless line stocked.
The brand's cup record sits with Spritzer, first in Adult Use Indica Flower, and Pastries, third in Non-Solvent Concentrates, both at the 2023 High Times Cannabis Cup Michigan, with further 2024 placements for El Chivo and Count Chunkula. Those placements belong to the entries that won them.
Where the plant comes from
In House Genetics bred the source plant, crossing Wedding Cake with The Platinum. The Wedding Cake side is Seed Junky's, a selected phenotype of Triangle Mints #23, and versions of the pairing have also been released by Reverse Genetics and Days Cannabis.
Platinum Cake is a separate plant from Platinum Kush Cake out of Days Cannabis, and it also circulates as Platinum Cheese Cake or Platinum Cheesecake on some menus. The Platinum Cake strain profile covers the flower side.
What comes through the press
The result is woody and earthy with pine and kush underneath, indica-leaning and heavy enough that most people keep it late in the day. A cake name on a genuinely heavy plant.
To compare the brand's cup-winning press, the Pastries rosin runs sweeter, and the full High Rise concentrate library lines the solventless shelf up together.