Sheet Cake (buying, price, store) - Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary - North Carolina (NC) -The Triangle Area - City-Data Forum

StanFischlerHockE · 06-13-2012, 10:41 AM

Hi I am currently looking at ordering a sheet cake from one of the following: Sams club, whole foods, Harris teeter.

Does any one have any preference between these three? I am also open to new ideas. I am not a Costco member.

thank you.

elsbells · 06-13-2012, 10:45 AM

I think Whole Foods cakes taste the best by far, but they also cost the most.

RedZin · 06-13-2012, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by stantheman78

Hi I am currently looking at ordering a sheet cake from one of the following: Sams club, whole foods, Harris teeter.

Does any one have any preference between these three? I am also open to new ideas. I am not a Costco member.

thank you.

Before I started regularly buying cakes from Once in a Blue Moon Bakery, I bought a few at HT. They're decent, as basic sheet cakes go.

bachgab · 06-13-2012, 12:06 PM

Hands down, Whole Foods. Their quality is far superior to the others.

Jkgourmet · 06-13-2012, 02:03 PM

Whole Foods if you can afford it. But I'd find somebody with a Costco Membership.

WeLuvNC · 06-13-2012, 03:59 PM

I am not sure you can go wrong with any of them. Have you considered a 'cupcake cake'? it is where they put cupcakes altogether then frost it so it looks like a sheet cake but impossibly easy to serve. no idea who makes them, but boy did it make serving easy at a function I was at. might be better for kids than adults as there ended up being lots of frosting for each cupcake!

librarySue · 06-13-2012, 06:31 PM

I haven't bought a sheet cake since I moved to NC, but in NY everyone said Sam's were the best store bought cake.

Mom2TwinsCary · 06-13-2012, 06:41 PM

Whole Foods or Blue Moon Bakery hands down.
HT - or even Target next if you are getting it elaborately decorated.
Sams/BJs would be my last choice.

millerm2 · 06-13-2012, 07:34 PM

I swear that years ago Sam's cakes were baked fresh-they'd be moist for a week after cutting. Now they are pre-frozen and dry-not very flavorful. The frosting often cracks from being forzen, and after a couple days, ready for the trash. But, they are CHEAP.

4alark · 06-14-2012, 02:05 PM

Whole Foods and Once in a Blue Moon. Hands down. No exceptions.

These are well worth the price. These cakes are taller than other cakes (Sam's frozen cracked cakes, especially) so you can order a slightly smaller size if you are on the border in the guest count and the cake size.