Birthday cake for 25: Costco or Giant?

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[Post New]08/27/2018 17:13
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Anonymous
Giant for the win. Best frosting ever.
[Post New]08/28/2018 13:01
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Anonymous
Neither—store bought cakes are gross. Just get a large pannand make it from scratch. It will take you 15 minutes.
[Post New]08/28/2018 13:03
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Anonymous
Costco
[Post New]08/28/2018 13:03
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Neither—store bought cakes are gross. Just get a large pannand make it from scratch. It will take you 15 minutes.


Really? You can prepare, assemble, frost and decorate a cake in 15 minutes? Very impressive!

Costco, hands down.
[Post New]08/28/2018 13:11
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Anonymous
costco
[Post New]08/28/2018 13:11
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Neither—store bought cakes are gross. Just get a large pannand make it from scratch. It will take you 15 minutes.


I've made birthday cake for my kids every year so far, and even with a cake mix, it's close to 3 hours after cooling the cake, making buttercream, tinting the buttercream, piping and decorating... I love doing it, but it ends up being an after work, up to 3 AM kind of thing.
[Post New]08/28/2018 13:17
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Costco cakes only come in 1/2 sheet sizes and they are VERY dense (have a thick layer of mouse in between the layers of cake). We got one for our son's birthday where there were 50 people (30 adults, 20 kids) and we still had about a 1/3 of the cake left after the party.

All said, I prefer Giant cakes and cupcakes. They're a little more expensive but not nearly as rich. Plus you can get a smaller cake for your party size.


I don't like the mousse in the Costco cakes and the frosting on Giant cakes is yummy. Ask for the buttercream, specifically.
[Post New]08/28/2018 14:05
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Anonymous
Fresh Giant cakes actually taste pretty good and they have a lot more decorative options including popular characters. I also think Harris Teeter cakes are decent for birthday party cakes. Costco is definitely cheapest but they're huge and decor is limited.
[Post New]08/29/2018 23:02
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Anonymous
Costcooooo
[Post New]08/30/2018 08:36
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Anonymous
Costco or Safeway. Safeway will do two layers with strawberries or whatever in between. So much better than Giant....
[Post New]08/30/2018 09:13
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Anonymous
I would use Giant, but I am one of the few that dislike the taste of Costco cakes. Giant does a good job of decorating also.
[Post New]08/30/2018 09:17
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Anonymous
Another vote for Costco. They taste really good and you can't beat the price.
[Post New]08/30/2018 09:37
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Anonymous
Harris Teeter has good cakes!

I like Costco. Get the white frosting over chocolate cake with chocolate mousse.
[Post New]08/30/2018 15:34
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Anonymous
When Giant had its own bakery, their cakes were really good. Now they aren't as good, but still fine.
[Post New]08/30/2018 16:14
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Anonymous
Costco.
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