Best Tasting Birthday Cake??

ralphy

costco cakes are just the best!

sundin13

Oooh, no. Costco cakes are awful. All style and no substance. As the OP said, too much icing, and the cake itself (when you get to it) is just bland and disappointing. Their apple pies are the same - look amazing, but the apple is tasteless.

threesacrowd

morrisons sell a HUGE french fancy (mr kipling) for about 8 quid and its always a big hit with my kids.

bbford

threesacrowd wrote: »

morrisons sell a HUGE french fancy (mr kipling) for about 8 quid and its always a big hit with my kids.

Also sold in Tescos and Asda

lin.c

Harrietxxx wrote: »

Had a piece of Sainsburys chocolate tray bake today and it was really lovely, everyone thought it was great. Not the most attractive as it is a tray bake in a foil tin with chocolate shavings and little maltesers on top, but the sponge was gorgeous.

I had the yellow one from Tesco's for my birthday last week and I really loved it

These sheet cakes seem to be made by the same bakery, as the decorations are almost identical, so depending if you feel like chocolate or vanilla, I'd say either one from either store is a safe bet

mysuni

Avoid the asda chocolate tray bakes as they are too sweet. Also the tatty teddy cake from Tesco was not good. I do like the photo cake from Tesco. The cakes in Waitrose are nice too....though a bit pricey for the size.

emweaver

makrs & spencers cakea i would avoid too, had 2 from there in the past year, last one was last week and both were very bland and tasteless even the icing wasnt sweet

System

sundin13 wrote: »

Oooh, no. Costco cakes are awful. All style and no substance. As the OP said, too much icing, and the cake itself (when you get to it) is just bland and disappointing. Their apple pies are the same - look amazing, but the apple is tasteless.

I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought this, the Costco cakes are very popular but we weren't overly impressed. Some of their other cakes ie carrot cake etc are yummy

emweaver wrote: »

makrs & spencers cakea i would avoid too, had 2 from there in the past year, last one was last week and both were very bland and tasteless even the icing wasnt sweet

I've had M&S ones that were not so good aswell in the past and it's put me off, their cupcakes were also terrible I thought

We did get a Star Wars cake from Tesco's however would not do this again, not very nice at all to be honest - you are paying for the brand

NBirdy

threesacrowd wrote: »

morrisons sell a HUGE french fancy (mr kipling) for about 8 quid and its always a big hit with my kids.

I had one of these for my birthday last year, was very excited about it as I love french fancies. It was a huge disappointment Dry, almost stale sponge, thin flaky dry icing and way too much sickly-sweet-yet-flavourless cream gloop. 2/3 of it went in the bin, it was that bad.

System

It's such a shame so many of them are not very good, I do love a birthday cake