My friend has asked if I would be interested in making a small tiered wedding cake for the daughter of a lady at her church. She said they ordered the main wedding cake at Costco to cut and serve, but want a small teired cake for photos and cake cutting ceremony. ?? Do they make wedding cakes? or are they just regular decorated sheet cakes?

I believe Costco only makes sheet cakes and nothing tiered!!

Why would you buy a cake from costco? I am sure you have a great cake shop in your area that could do a wonderfull job on your cake needs. That cake at costco was made and frozen about 6 months ago I bet.

i think costco only do sheet cakes, i've never seen a tiered cake there.

From my understanding they are trying to save on wedding expenses - which is fine by me. I would happily make a small cake for them - it would be my first attempt at a wedding cake, so it may as well be a small one!

Have you told them that you'ld be happy to make them a small wedding cake? It would be great for you to make, good practise

The costco here in Washington is baking fresh every day. Their cakes taste really good but are marginal on the decorating process.

A lot of people opt to have an inexpensive sheet cake made to feed the guests at events. It's growing quite popular for wedding cakes to be primarily a dummy cake with the top one or two layers the ACTUAL cake, and just cutting up the sheet cake in back to feed the guests.. and I can understand that.

All decorated cakes are edible works of art but they can be quite expensive. People want to throw nice parties and have money to pair for stuff besides just amazing food.. I don't think it's really an insult to a baker/chef though, it's just a customer trying to be frugal and get the most for their money.

All that aside it's generally better form to have the sheet cake and "show cake" be similar in regards to the type of cake (same recipe, etc), the frosting and decorations (kinda weird to see a show cake with ivory icing and pink rosettes and then get a slice of cake that's pure white with only some shells on it, heh!).