To think Costco cake is rubbish

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I have been a member of Costco UK for years. The cake was always chemical ridden, full of E numbers, trans fats, and sugar laden. I still liked it, though, in a fancying a sugar hit, guilty pleasure kind of way, especially those corner pieces! I knew it was pure unadulterated rubbish, but I just didn't care. On the rare occasion I got a piece, it tasted artificially good, and I liked it! The sprinkle cupcakes were good too!

There is still so much hype around these cakes that I just don't understand. We tried a round one for Mother's Day, and it was 2 x burnt layers of thin sponge cake (bottom thinner than the top for some reason), barely any buttercream or jam in the middle. The frosting tasted predominantly greasy, and not how it used to; rhe greasy taste took over the sweet. It was always a bakery artificial frosting full of crap, but it didn't taste like this. The cakes are no longer edible to people with a sweet tooth imo, who liked the original.

Any body work in Costco? What has happened to the recipe? I took the cake back, and the member of staff looked at me like like I was a spawn of the devil. He told me nobody complains about these cakes, and how can anybody not like them, and that they're famous for these! He convinced us to buy another, telling us it must have been a faulty one. The second one was just the same, disgusting!

Costco cakes have always been vile

Thank you!! I'm going to have to pick up a box now the next time, and at least I can avoid the bakery section completely!

I love that! You must be the coolest Mum ever, and how lucky your dc's friends are. It is honestly rare things like this that you remember for life!

Haha! It’s the choice of fillings that makes me the cool mum - they like apple sauce, jam, chocolate spread or biscoff. Whereas I like mine plain…

Added photo as comparison for you from the batch DD just cooked…

I love their cakes, never had a burnt one. We only have them for large parties, for smaller family parties we use a local baker. And I have eaten and made plenty of homemade cakes.

It’s appalling.

I will give these a try .
We do like the bakery ones but I have noticed some are a bit too well done .

When I buy the big packs they do get eaten over a few days but frozen ones sounds good.

I love almond croissants but they are hard to get hold of - I could prod a hole in one and fill with marzipan. (homemade is best flavour)

Where do you get the frozen croissants? I’ve never seen them

Oh wow, thank you so much for posting. I am definately going to buy these, they look huge! Good topping choices, you cannot go wrong with nutella, and biscoff imo. I like to slather butter on, even though they're already made with a ton of it, may as well add some more! 🫢

frozen croissants: i have asked for them from the bakery staff. but my purchase was a box pack of 204...i had to find a friend to share them with then divide them into lots of 10. as they aged they did not rise as well as when first purchased.

Costco tray cakes are absolutely rank. Cheap, nasty, synthetic tasting shite.

I’ve seen them in the freezers with the ice creams etc.

I used to like their carrot cake - is that not nice now either?

Agreed. It always has too much icing/frosting for my liking, but in the last couple of years the quality has really gone downhill.

I’ve always thought this about the chocolate fudge cake.
love their profiteroles though!

Aldi sell frozen almond croissants. They're the deluxe range so hopefully decent.

It is only dh that likes carrot cake, so we couldn't justify getting the big one. We did get the carrot muffin version a little while ago, and dh enjoyed those, with my youngest having a little too.

I've not had carrot cake for years. Please don't tell me they've changed recipe of that as well? That was lovely

Everyone knows Costcos cakes are rubbish.

Costco comes across like a cult to me. Those I know who are members swear it's so much better than supermarkets.

I went a few times but found Aldi cheaper. Also when I bought chicken (several times over my 1 year membership) the bones were always broken and there was bone shrapnel in the meat.

Which chicken? I I don't think so as I am a member, and I am the op, definately can see lots of issues. We do our main shop at Lidl, I love their chicken chunks, and had a huge bone in one of these! I still buy them though, as they're the best ones; I think it was just unlucky.
We like some Costco items, but not everything, and feel it has gone down hill a lot over the years, to the point we don't go as much. I always price it too, as not everything is cheaper, I think when you're paying a membership, it definately gives you the right to be a little extra fussy as well!

I don't think so, according to dh the carrot muffins/minii cakes are really good. I cannot comment on the large cake, but I'd imagine it is similar!

I couldn't disagree more. Costco birthday is is the nectar of the gods. I was lucky enough to grow up on wholesome, homemade bakes and still love them. But it also also made me hanker after the dark side of the most synthetic, sugary 'shop bought' cake and Costco birthday cake is the holy grail of it. We celebrated a big event which meant two cakes and it was as good as ever and the divided up frozen remains have only just been finished (by me). How can a once a year birthday cake be too full of sugar and addictives?

The icing has a texture no human should ingest.

It used to be, they've completely changed though. I want Costco to confirm they have, because they taste nothing like they did. Maybe they've increased the trex, decreased the butter flavouring/sugar/vanilla? A result of sugar tax perhaps? If I'm going to on the rare occasion eat artificial crap, it needs to at the very least taste good to us original costco cake fans.

I tasted a predominantly greasy trex flavour in the frosting and nothing much else, it didn't have the "zing" it used to. The layers are thinner, one thinner than the other, and my branch are burning it on the outside so it peels off. It didn't used to be like that, they need to cook it for less time, or shave it off (if they shave it, though, there'll be no cake at all left, because they've made it so thin!) Either way the frosting has changed. The bakery are also putting a smidgen of greasy cream inside with jam, where it is so little, you can barely tell it is there! Each to their own, but the new recipe is disgusting.

Well my cake eating was very recent. However, I will admit my the level of my cake analysis is possibly not quite at the same forensic level as yours.