to wonder what on EARTH costco put in their cakes???

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DD had a party yesterday for her birthday and instead of getting 2 of the supermarket traybake things for £6/7 each, we ordered a Costco sheet cake thing.

OMG I have never tested anything so awful in my life. The actual sponge cake is passable. The jam - well I've never tasted anything so synthetic and un-jam like in my life. And the frosting is just 100% sugar.

But people rave about how lovely it is?😱

Same! Bloody love s Costco cake 😂

They look like the typical American cake bought at their massive supermarkets

To be fair they do look totally gross. Their profiteroles are quite decent though.
(I hate most shop cakes anyway, they all taste like plam oil.)

Cakebox cakes are amazing. There is alot of frosting and extremely light sponge cake. I've tasted a few at Asian celebrations.

The sheet cakes are nasty.

The giant double chocolate chip
Muffins however? Oh..magawd! So freaking good.

I love love loveeeee it

The only mass produced bought cakes I've ever enjoyed were M&S - and even then I'm selective and prefer something like the walnut with buttercream

The big round cakes from Costco are amazing. The carrot cake and chocolate fudge cake are really good.

Love them. The frosting is THE best. But then I have a very sweet tooth 🤣

Home made cakes are so much better… I never buy them, can’t stand the artificial blandness

I agree.

I ordered one for my child’s first birthday. It was so sweet it made my teeth itch. Never again.

I used to buy the Chocolate Costco sheet cakes for Birthdays when the children were very little for class parties. They look fun, are easy to cut & small kids just mess around with cake usually anyway. We had a nice homemade one for home.

Agree, I love Costco generally, but their birthday cakes are one of the most synthetic things I’ve ever tasted. The best way I could describe it is food that makes you feel ‘dirty’, and not in a good way.
I’m all for a nice bit of cake made with actual butter and lovely creams and jams, but this tastes like purely plastic food with nothing remotely resembling wholesome ingredients.

The white birthday cakes ones are horrible, the other cakes like the Victoria sponge, red velvet, carrot, and chocolate cake are decent enough.

I second this. 😋

They even have their own peculiar smell! I love Costco but definitely don't buy the birthday cakes.

They’re disgusting shit

That looks like a typical American / Canadian sheet cake that we get at the grocery store here across the pond. I personally love them as a guilty pleasure, but high quality they are not. It could definitely be a full-on assault on an unsuspecting British palate! Funnily enough I can't stand British grocery store fondant covered cakes as I find them dry by comparison.

When my children were small supermarket birthday cakes were often pallatble. The sponge was usually quite nice. They have disabilities so still expect a birthday cake on they're birthday now they're young adults.

We have one made for the special one's but the other year's get a supermarket one and there not as nice as they used to be. I find the sponge is often dry and lacks flavour. The icing is also sickly sweet. Do they not taste test these cake's before mass producing them?

I've never heard anyone rave about Costco cakes! I thought it was a given that they were giant cakes people bought to feeds a massive crowd, and their principle ingredient was sugar.

We've bought a couple, mostly for whole-class parties for children who thinbk the more sugar the merrier.

Red velvet and carrot cake - lovely. The 'special' big slab birthday ones - awful but fine to give children

The icing is like over sweet soft wax, bleeuurgh.

No they're, they're really not 😁

I would never insult anyone, even children by giving them substandard cake.

When DD was little I used to make a simple all in one sponge traybake and cover it with home made buttercream and smarties.

I love their carrot cake. Sorry not sorry