What does Whole Foods birthday cake taste like?

[Anonymous]

We like it. It depends on what you like. We find Costco and other supermarket cakes too sweet and too much like a box cake mix. WF buttercream, at least whoever supplies the ones on Arlington, tastes much more like the French bakeries I grew up with. It doesn't taste like Crisco, it tastes like butter.

Now, for a bunch of small kids, I still go with a supermarket, because it all winds up in the trash or on the carpet, so I'm not paying double the price for that. For grownups, we get WF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We like it. It depends on what you like. We find Costco and other supermarket cakes too sweet and too much like a box cake mix. WF buttercream, at least whoever supplies the ones on Arlington, tastes much more like the French bakeries I grew up with. It doesn't taste like Crisco, it tastes like butter.

Now, for a bunch of small kids, I still go with a supermarket, because it all winds up in the trash or on the carpet, so I'm not paying double the price for that. For grownups, we get WF.

Pretty much this. I usually make cakes, actually, but if I have to buy one because of scheduling, I like WF cakes, which I think are closer to homemade from scratch, as opposed to homemade from a mix.

I am really tired of the mold cake poster. It sounds awful and I can see why you'd never go back, but give it a rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We like it. It depends on what you like. We find Costco and other supermarket cakes too sweet and too much like a box cake mix. WF buttercream, at least whoever supplies the ones on Arlington, tastes much more like the French bakeries I grew up with. It doesn't taste like Crisco, it tastes like butter.

Now, for a bunch of small kids, I still go with a supermarket, because it all winds up in the trash or on the carpet, so I'm not paying double the price for that. For grownups, we get WF.

Pretty much this. I usually make cakes, actually, but if I have to buy one because of scheduling, I like WF cakes, which I think are closer to homemade from scratch, as opposed to homemade from a mix.

I am really tired of the mold cake poster. It sounds awful and I can see why you'd never go back, but give it a rest.

I am not the mold cake poster, but I once bought an apple pie from there. The underside of the top crust was covered with mold.

[Anonymous]

When I get a WF cake, I let it sit on the counter and come to room temperature. Tastes much better.

[Anonymous]

The mold post seemed directly relevant to this thread, so it seems like a pretty reasonable thing to bring up, even if that poster has posted it in other forums as well.

[Anonymous]

I've had a chocolate strawberry cake from there that was delicious.

The sheet cake we had at a friend's birthday party was pretty bad. It had a strange tasting cherry filling and the frosting tasted like pure butter, but not in a good way. There was no hint of sugar to balance out the fat. Wasn't a fan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I get a WF cake, I let it sit on the counter and come to room temperature. Tastes much better.

If you serve it cold, you can't taste the sugar in the frosting, just the butter. Pretty gruesome.

[Anonymous]

We've repeatedly gotten the Harris Teeter marble cake with cream cheese frosting. Everyone always loves it. I highly recommend it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think WF baked goods are just not good. Everything looks pretty, but tastes like cardboard.

Agree

Yup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think WF baked goods are just not good. Everything looks pretty, but tastes like cardboard.

Yeah, the couple times I have got cakes there they were not good. Kinda dry and tasteless. Not worth the money over another supermarket cake IMO

[Anonymous]

Go to Safeway instead--delicious cakes. You won't regret it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We like it. It depends on what you like. We find Costco and other supermarket cakes too sweet and too much like a box cake mix. WF buttercream, at least whoever supplies the ones on Arlington, tastes much more like the French bakeries I grew up with. It doesn't taste like Crisco, it tastes like butter.

Now, for a bunch of small kids, I still go with a supermarket, because it all winds up in the trash or on the carpet, so I'm not paying double the price for that. For grownups, we get WF.

Pretty much this. I usually make cakes, actually, but if I have to buy one because of scheduling, I like WF cakes, which I think are closer to homemade from scratch, as opposed to homemade from a mix.

I am really tired of the mold cake poster. It sounds awful and I can see why you'd never go back, but give it a rest.

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I may have posted about that incident before but I do not think I did. If I did then it was maybe once before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We like it. It depends on what you like. We find Costco and other supermarket cakes too sweet and too much like a box cake mix. WF buttercream, at least whoever supplies the ones on Arlington, tastes much more like the French bakeries I grew up with. It doesn't taste like Crisco, it tastes like butter.

Now, for a bunch of small kids, I still go with a supermarket, because it all winds up in the trash or on the carpet, so I'm not paying double the price for that. For grownups, we get WF.

Pretty much this. I usually make cakes, actually, but if I have to buy one because of scheduling, I like WF cakes, which I think are closer to homemade from scratch, as opposed to homemade from a mix.

I am really tired of the mold cake poster. It sounds awful and I can see why you'd never go back, but give it a rest.

?

I may have posted about that incident before but I do not think I did. If I did then it was maybe once before.

PP, I'm another poster who has seen this story on DCUM multiple times; the mold, the cake return, the indifference of Whole Foods to the mold.

[Anonymous]

The pie mold story is new, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pie mold story is new, though.

That was me! I have definitely never posted about it before. It was so gross! Never again! I didn't try to return it; I was so grossed out that I just threw it away.