About the frozen chocolate cake from Costco

Well. Well, well, WELL.

I see that I am not the only person who enjoys a quality slice of chocolate cake. I had no idea that frozen cake would get so many of your eyebrows raised in a collective, "REALLY? YOU CAN DO THAT?"

Here is the whole story:

I've heard of people freezing cake rounds, in preparation for assembling a cake later, but I'd never heard of someone freezing the entire cake once it was all ready. But, you can! One can freeze cake after it has already been iced and assembled and it also actually tastes good once thawed. WHO KNEW?! I have to tell you it was not wholly my idea. My mother-in-law takes the credit on this one.

She showed up in June with a cake that she had frozen sometime in early May. It was billed as a Tiramisu Cake but it was really some sort of white chocolate raspberry cake (no idea how they got tiramisu out of that). She had frozen the entire cake, in the box, no plastic wrap or anything. She then stuck the cake in the car in June, drive it 5 hours to my house while it defrosted and we all had some "Tiramisu" cake for Father's Day.

I will be brutally honest. When I heard what she had done to that cake, the only thing I could think was,

"This is going to be terrrrrible."

I actually did not even have a slice with everyone because I was trying to watch how much sugar I was cramming in my maw (one month after giving birth). It was also not chocolate. My steadfast dessert motto is, "If it's not chocolate, I don't want it." Plus, there was also the part about how she'd frozen it and I thought it was going to be awful anyway. Totally not worth the calories. I was feeling very smug about not partaking in this dense, high-calorie cake that was probably not even very good anyway. (Also? NOT CHOCOLATE.)

Somehow, the cake got left in my fridge and later that night I had an attack of The Sugars and I helped myself to a slice (as you do one month post-partum), fully expecting to dislike it and throw it out.

Except, the cake was good. It was really good. It was not even chocolate and it was good.

Hmmmm. This set my mind whirring.

There is a cake at Costco I like to flirt with. I think it is called something like The Great American Chocolate Cake. It is four layers and it is chocolate heaven in a plastic container for $16.99. I like to drive by the cake and think about putting it in my cart, next to the baby. The problem is that it's enormous, there's no way we could eat it all and, perhaps more importantly, we do not have any business eating that much cake before it spoils. 

But, what if I froze the cake? That might solve my problem. (My completely invented, not even really an actual problem, problem.) I bought the damn cake, sliced it up and you know what happens next. IT WAS AWESOME. 

Go forth. Buy cake. Freeze it. Enjoy.

Comments

[Marie]

i heart you. so much. freezing things i shouldn't actually be eating? oh yeah!

[Julie]

Costco makes fabulous cakes, and I'm so glad to hear they freeze well. I think I may have done that in the past, but my memory is failing me so it's nice to have confirmation. Our wedding cake thawed out very well, but that doesn't appear to be the case across the board.

Oh man, now I want to go to Costco and get some cake right this very minute.

[Maggie]

People don't know about freezing cake? Perhaps they didn't grow up with a grandmother who had an entire freezer devoted to cake. Also, I LIKE my cake frozen. I tend to freeze the leftovers, though I am now sorely tempted to go buy a cake solely to stash in my freezer.

[Jessica]

So did you slice up the cake and leave it all together in it's original container? I was assuming you individually foil-wrapped each slice, which would have been a lot of work.

Do you think it would work on cakes from a box mix? They're so much fluffier and might fall apart. I think dense cake would freeze best. (I have more free box mixes from couponing than I know what to do with.)

[craftyashley]

I should not know these things! It is dangerous! (to my waistline!)

[Jen]

I saw that cake last night. I may have flirted and batted my eyelashes a bit.

But I left it there.

Kind of regretting that now.

[HereWeGoAJen]

I have frozen cake in my freezer right now. I didn't realize that people didn't know you could do that. I mean, isn't that the whole thing with eating the top part of your wedding cake on your first anniversary?

However, now I want to go to Costco and get some cake.

[BigP's Heather]

You are my hero.

I'm weeping with the thought of driving 75 miles to get cake...

[Katie]

LOL! This post just cracks me up!

Especially because this week was Emma's big birthday bash and I was baking the cupcakes, but my girlfriend had graciously offered to decorate them for me. Problem was, she wanted them READY just when things were gonna be busy (house FILLED with people and three extra dogs - the dogs really being the key issue). And so she told me to make them when it was convenient and freeze them.

And I was like you and thought "BLEGH. Frozen cupcakes? BLEGH." But she is a cake expert (owning her own cake-baking business and all), so I deferred to her.

And you know what. . . not one, but several people came up to me during the party and said, "Ohmygosh, these cupcakes were so moist! so flavorful!" And, I did NOTHING different with the batter. It was ALL THE FREEZING.

So, apparently, not only is freezing cake good for YOU, it is GOOD FOR THE CAKE. See? Double goodness.

And have I ever mentioned that I live within walking distance of a Costco. It is literally a three minute drive from my house to that cake. TROUBLE.

[katie]

I dont have a cosco in my hood. But i do LOVE ice cold chocolate cake. Having worked in a local retail chain many moons ago, i developed a taste for them while slinging desserts.

[Jenni Weeks]

Reminds me of how I took several huge plates of leftover cake from Courtney's wedding and froze it. I then enjoyed it over the next year and it tasted just as good!