Best supermarket cake for a party

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I normally make my own but I'm feeling exhausted. I cannot afford a professional bakery cake. My niece, her husband and their families are coming to my place for the first time after their wedding. I wanted them to cut a cake!
Any ideas? TIA

We had a lovely one from m&S recently, I think it was lemon and blackcurrant? Quite expensive for a supermarket cake I thought, but the sharp flavours were nice - I find most bought cakes too sweet.

Agree M&S are fantastic, for a tighter budget, Sainsbury's are lovely

We’ve had that cake too and it was delicious

Morrison’s have a good chocolate one

Had the Sainsbury’s cookies and cream recently, £16. Added some macarons to go on top. Easy and effective.

Colin the Caterpillar? M and S

We had a chocolate tray bake type one from m&s last week, it was lovely.

The M&S cakes - they range between £20-30 and are really delicious and beautiful

This was going to be my vote too

Get a Colin the Caterpillar and a Connie the Caterpillar from M&S and add a tiny top hat and a veil from Amazon.

Avoid Waitrose. I bought few from them and both were horrid.

M&S online have even more than the in shop options inc wedding cakes. I like the matching caterpillar cake idea tho - really sweet

M&S ones are very good and so are Asda ones in my experience.

The chocolate celebration cake from Cook is delicious.

We've had several Asda ones, most recently yesterday! A print your own one.

You can't beat a Colin

A friend served a Tesco chocolate traybake at her kid's last party and surprisingly it was superb.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/314841359/?icid=ghsandapp_ghs_pdp_share

If you have a Costco card they do big sheet cakes to order for about £18. You can pick the sponge, icing and writing. Or they have large cakes that are delicious- carrot, red velvet, Victoria sponge and chocolate.

Had the m&s red velvet recently - it had a lovely tangy cream cheese frosting. Was a bit less than £20. I was pleasantly surprised how nice it was and would buy again.

A caterpillar cake is the only cake acceptable for celebrations.

Slightly more than a supermarket cake (which often taste dry or have very artificial tasting frosting) but never had a bad one - Lola’s Cupcakes deliver bigger celebration cakes. Usually about £30 ish I think.

M&S every time

Purchased M&S vintage birthday cake this week for a family member, £18 and all of those at the party raved about the cake and asked where it was from. Really attractive cake and served 16 i think.

The Cook cakes are excellent if you have one near you.

When will you need it? For the larger M&S cakes, you need to order online and they still haven't opened that up again - I suspect it will take quite a while to sort out their IT issues. We had a nice rainbow cake last year from M&S but haven't been able to order - we've opted for Waitrose instead.