Best supermarket birthday cake?

[EachandEveryone]

In all my years Ive never worked a birthday 🎂. Im a nurse so usually request it off. Anyway, I forgot so I need to buy a cake to take in. I thems the rules. So, I have M and S, Asda, Morrissons or Sainsburys nearby. Are any of them better than the other? Anything else I should take in?

Thanks in advance.

Can't believe no one's mentioned the Costco celebration cake yet. It's delicious and HUGE and only £15.
Sponge with strawberry jam and buttercream filling with a very light as air buttercream icing. It's amazing

Clicked on this purely to recommend Colin. Anything else just isn’t as good.

By the sounds of it, I need to try Colin myself! Seem to be missing out.

Love this one...
www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/birthday-and-party-cakes/sainsburys-salted-caramel-drip-cake-1kg

Asda do a Clyde the caterpillar that’s half the price of Colin!
But, if you can get to a Costco, I completely second what a pp said about their large iced sheet cakes, so damn good.

Funny, I was going mention Costco a few hours ago as well, when I first posted but I figured the OP wasn’t near one. Yes for American sheet cakes. I prefer those to usual British cakes.

Aldi do a decent chocolate birthday cake, I’m sure it’s only £3.99. I find it much nicer than Asda’s cakes which I always think are very dry!

I really want some cake now..... Am also intrigued as to why Connie is so inferior to Colin? I thought they just had different colour decorations.

No I dont live near Costco and its a good job really Im too greedy.

M & S rainbow cake! It's the best. In fact we bought one last week despite no birthday to celebrate

M&S rainbow cake is lovely. The sponge isn’t overly sweet and the sponge is light. It is my favourite supermarket birthday cake option at the moment. Colin is a good second.

You might want to do smaller individual cakes if that is easier to serve quickly and neatly; the packs of four cakes from M&S are nice and you could do a mix of types.

We had this earlier in the summer and it was surprisingly good!!!

www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/birthday-and-party-cakes/large-seriously-chocolate-cake-128kg-serves-20-

Sorry I forgot to add the link ...

I had a Colin and was so disappointed, it’s so overhyped (IMO of course!)

I don't like the Colin one as I don't like that it's got hard chocolate on the outside. I prefer ganache or other soft icing on my cakes

Sainsbury's do a box of birthday cupcakes.

Get yourself to Aldi and get a couple of their traybakes!

Or Cuthbert?

www.aldi.co.uk/caterpillar-cake/p/019725317744300

Sainsbury’s white chocolate birthday cake . Best supermarket one I’ve tried.

Colin is dry

Oooh. Might get a Colin tomorrow for no other reason than this thread.

Tesco’s chocolate caterpillar cake is the only birthday cake in our family! (Never had one from M & S, so cannot compare them)

How many people are you buying for? Morrison's have an amazing indulgence triple chocolate cake serving 12-16

My second choice after Sainsbury’s Wiggles caterpillar would be a Tesco chocolate cake, might be called triple chocolate and has mini Maltesers and other chocolate bits on top.

There will be four of us on the day shift and four on the night.