Remind me…Does Costco usually have a chocolate cake? I need one for book club …
@TempeMom ours does! Chocolate cake usually is either a sheet cake or a bigger bundt style type cake. You could also mix and match their massive cupcakes and cut them into smaller slivers so people can try different ones?
Ours usually have a chocolate sheet
cake (which is not that bad for a store cake!) and also some sort of fancier chocolate cake. Here is the sheet cake info:
http://www.frugalhotspot.com/2014/06/costco-sheet-cake-17-99/
Costco also sometimes have a nice, smaller tiramisu cake and other similar items that are a bit larger than a loaf pan, depending on how many you plan to serve.
Thanks all. I need a chocolate layer cake (we serve items from the book we are reading) and know I’ve seen one around lately and thought “I have to remember this.” And then promptly forgot. I’ll do sheet if I can’t find a layer tho.
They also have that “tuxedo cake” sometimes - it sort of like a chocolate rectangle bar shaped cake that is not quite as enormous but looks decadent - I haven’t had it!
Sam’s Club has chocolate cakes too, if you need it from there.
Did you guys hear that Pat Volchok died? I had no idea! So young. Loved reading her reviews of her Costco finds. RIP. 
Our Costco almost always stocks a large round chocolate layer cake. People rave about it. I haven’t bought one because I fear I would like it too much.
Mine usually has a huge extreme chocolate cake with chocolate frosting (3layers?) and large shavings of chocolate pressed into the side frosting like shingles. Very tasty but a bit overwhelming. Very Costco-sized. Their flat cakes are available in chocolate but may not be readymade every day. The one I would choose for a book group is called " chocolate tuxedo cake" or something similar. Loaf shaped, smaller, three layers with filling. Easy to cut into thin slices for people who don’t want a lot. It’s not always there, call and ask.
What, you can call Costco and ask questions? Really? I had no idea.
Went to Costco today. Picked up several bottles of the Toscana Kirkland olive oil. My chef friend swears by it. Once it is gone you have to wait till the next harvest year.
Also got a very large clam shell of organic mixed greens that I used in salad tonight.
Call your local warehouse, not the corporate numbers! 
Your local bakery department should have a number. They want you to call and order cakes.
Ah, that makes sense. I was all excited there for a few minutes, thinking that maybe you could call and ask whether they have a new shipment of orchids, or whether there are still any size S women’s scoop neck 32 degrees tops, or whether the spring shipment of wired ribbon has arrived. But I get that the bakery needs to have the ability to take and discuss orders.
Even though they can’t answer most of my questions over the phone, I still love Costco. And if I were looking for a chocolate layer cake for a group, I’d go for the “extreme” one mentioned by dragonmom, above. Any excuse to purchase that chocolate extravaganza!
I just tried a Carrot/Ginger Soup that comes in boxes (dried goods soup section) and it is really good. I hate carrots but I can eat and even enjoy it as soup.
My Costco had fresh pork belly today which I had never seen there before. Has anyone bought it and if so, how was it? I have only bought the fully cooked pork belly at Trader Joe’s and this package is so big (it is, after all, Costco!) I am intrigued as well as intimidated.
I saw that at our Costco, too! Too big of a chunk for the two of us to handle.
Ours has pork loin, which I have made in the clay pot in the oven with some root veggies and apples. Yum! Haven’t seen pork belly.
@zipyourlips – I think you can call with specific questions, within reason. While on a quest for a generator, I called a few Costco locations. And I think I have called to see if they have gotten their shipment of something that had been out of stock, Romaine lettuce of all things.
They have these ancient-looking terminals where the supervisor types can check inventory and future orders, or if an item has been discontinued by Costco.
Perhaps this varies by location.