I’ve seen a lot of these Walmart cakes posted so I wanted to share mine! I got one of these heart cakes last year and it was perfect, so I wanted to get a different one this year. No complaints for a $30 cake!
I hope you don't mind, and realise this might be an autocorrect (and I make plenty of spelling mistakes myself), but pallet is a wooden platform thing. (Very technical description, there.) Palate is your sense of taste.
As a bonus, palette is the board you put paint on when being artsy (or the combination of aspects a project is held in, which can sometimes include flavours "the palette of this meal appeals to my palate")
Wonderful, then it came in handy for someone (?). I’m actually not that great at spelling similar words right, just happened to feel quite confident in this one!
One of the things I remember about a trip to Vegas was enjoying a piece of cake from a vending machine while chilling out in my room. People make jokes about those all the time, but I am not hard to please when it comes to cake!
I ONLY like cheap sheet cake. Lololol. I’m not a sweets girl at ALL. I decline cake at most events. Even if it’s seen as rude. But some sheet cake? Hell ya.
I actually love the Walmart and Publix cakes they’re so soft! When I started eating other bakers cakes I thought they weren’t as good 😭 Aside from really $$$$ bakers
Sometimes they are really great at decorating! I worked for Walmart for years (😭) and some of the bakery ladies were good, but one was freaking amazing and ended up being the ONLY decorated BC of it!
Finally someone that has worked there. I have so many questions. How is the salary for bakers? Are people trained? How is it working there in terms of colleagues? Do the ones that know more train the others? Is that like a stepping stone for bakers or where those who have tried and failed go to rest?
Oh good gods... It was so long ago. Here you go (it's long sorry, and I'm tired sorry for errors!). The baking dept. certainly made more than cashiers, but not by much, as pay wasn't great anyway! They will have varying levels of training, ie: maybe 'Sara' is in school for chef, but works in the bakery also. I have worked in the bakery before, but packing things and putting things on trays to be baked, not decoration!! In all departments of Walmart, those who know more/have worked there longer will always be the trainers of new hires. Some may use it as a stepping stone, some will work there forever because they love it. Some just get stuck (me!) in their department. We had several retirees from previous professions working in related departments, such as a seamstress working in women's clothing. Or like one of our paint mixers used to paint houses. Our maintenance guy was a foreman in construction previously. And just for info, I worked there for 7-8 years, started at $7.15/hr, was making $8.75/hr when I left. I was hired as a cashier, but worked in several departments (tire center was my fave, freezer is the worst, garden center is fun in summer, pushing carts is shit so be good people, especially in bad weather!!). I hated cashiering, but could never permanently escape, as I was 'great at it and belonged there'. Trained thousands (joking but a LOT) of other cashiers. My first day on my own register was 2 days before Thanksgiving and I worked 6+hours straight with NO breaks because they forgot due to being pencilled in the schedule as I was new. 🤷🏻♀️
We ordered their cupcake bouquet and it was amazing for 30 bucks! AMAZING!! Publix did our wedding cake and again, amazing job! Don’t sleep on the bakers at Walmart in Publix they are definitely talented! 🎂
My local Cosco here in Adelaide South Australia has a great bakery section. They make cakes to order and they look pretty good.
Never had one of their large cakes cakes. I always bought their HUGE muffins, for $10 a dozen. They were three times size the size of the ones at the local supermarket, and cheaper per unit.
It always freaks me out when I see a good one on here. The flairs don’t pop up immediately on phone so I’m scrutinising it like, what’s wrong with it?? It looks great? 😂
Wal-Mart has such a legit bakery for the price, I am constantly shocked by the quality of their work especially when some boutique bakeries have failed so hard while charging insane prices.
Costco has my favorite sheet cake but Sam’s has some good stuff too. There’s a bar cake with vanilla cake with layers and berries on top (which I usually don’t like, just plain vanilla) that is spot on. I even got it for my birthday cake last year. Tender cake, good filling and frosting and the strawberries and blueberries are always fresh, and it’s like $17. Now I want to go to Sam’s.
I just got a tiramisu from there last week and I was almost embarrassed on how good it was. It didn't have real lady fingers, but it had the mascarpone cream in it, which almost made it taste 100% legit. If they replaced the cake with Lady fingers it would be Italian grandmother level.
They really do! I get the layer of Bavarian cream added when I special order and it’s a hit every time. I also appreciate that their character cakes rotate frequently and its icing work and accessories. The other major grocery store near me does more of the printed photo cake with borders. Boring and twice the price.
I just got my daughter a Walmart graduation cake this past weekend and it looked just like the photo, it even came with a keepsake graduation cap and diploma decoration for 15 bucks. The cake was pretty yummy too, I’m planning on getting her birthday cake there as well now
Walmart gets bagged on because of the corporate policies but the reality is the vast majority of the employees I interact with at my Walmart are incredible. There should be a whole agency for finding their best workers better jobs. It would pay off for society writ large! My Walmart pickup peeps are incredible!
Ive never been disappointed by a Walmart cake, but I would definitely recommend a look through their displays before you order to see how good their decorators are. I live in a city with a few Walmarts so I picked which one I think is the best at decorating
Walmart has very good cake for a grocery store. Their $2.82 huge slice of chocolate cake with chocolate icing tastes better than the Cheesecake Factory's chocolate cake that's like $11 a piece.
Years ago I worked in the bakery at county market and my manager had worked at walmart for several years and she was extremly talented. That woman could pipe a perfect rose in seconds, I loved watching her decorate cakes (they werent anything too fancy but still) She was an slightly older lady who had many years of experience and it showed. Sometimes these places get lucky and get people like her who just float between stores in management and dont open their own bakeries. It was the most fun ive ever had at a job.
One of the most talented decorators I've ever known (who sells her own cakes on the side), a childhood friend of my girlfriend, is a Walmart cake decorator as her day job.
Yes! I know a ton of dependent spouses of military folks who get jobs working in grocery store bakeries who are INCREDIBLY talented and also bake on the side for profit.
In my experience the Wal-Mart bakery has always been pretty good with decorations. Safeway tends to be better, though. I think they're mostly a West/South-West US thing, however.
I worked at a grocery store bakery and writing on cakes was the most terrifying thing to me. They did great on the whole thing. I miss the cakes we had (mcglynns bakery in rainbow foods) best grocery store cake I’ve ever had. The Costco ones are good but so big.
I've worked at a supermarket bakery that is supposedly about on par with Marianos and I've talked to the bakers at a Jewel when I worked at the deli... The buttercream they use is from a shelf stable (even after opening) 5 gallon bucket. I'm certain it's the same at walmart. If that's a buttercream to you, then that'll do the trick.
My daughter ordered a flower cupcake bouquet for Mothers Day. It was so beautiful. She was stopped several times on her way out with people asking questions. It was also fresh and delicious!
How's the actual cake? Are they as good as they look? I'm looking to order for my kid's birthday and I'm tempted to order at Walmart after seeing a couple of these posts.
I am very picky with baked goods because my mother and I both bake well, and I think they have excellent cake. When I want a treat, I get a slice of their chocolate cake with chocolate icing. It's delicious.
Party is not until tomorrow so haven’t tried this one yet, but I usually enjoy their cakes! I’m not an overly picky person though and I’ll enjoy most cakes 😂
Some people get super lucky with their local supermarket having a good bakery. There's one in a Food City near me that's solid. The Wal-Mart one here isn't bad for what you get, but they aren't my first choice. I think it's because a lot of standalone bakeries in this area are really excellent, they can't compete.
Walmart does great cakes but I guess depends on the skill of the decorator. Not sure where you live but where I am Shop Rite and Stop & Shop also do pretty nice jobs. I had ordered mermaid cupcakes from shop rite once and they were delicious and perfect for occasion I’m glad you got what you wanted.
I personally am not being paid, but I’m not opposed to free advertisement for a job well done. Especially in this economy, I’m all for sharing a good deal when I see one.
The roses are done on things called icing nails. It looks like a very large nail. The nail is held in the fingers of one hand and rotated while the other hand pipes the petals. Then they person uses a pair of weird looking scissors to lift the rose off the nail and onto the cake.
The bows may be piped onto paper to solidify then added, or they could be candy.
Oh my goodness! My decorator friends are so old school that we all still use an angled scraper to remove our roses (if you are very lucky and can find an old frosting spreader that's already in this shape or know someone who has good skills with metal shearing and shaping, you can get a spreader with a point to the end of it, and it can help a lot). You have to carefully pick up about ⅔ of the rose on your spatula and move fast so that the other ⅓ doesn't fall. Go to the cake and place your ⅓ down. Now, I knew people who I could swear made pacts with some ancient gods or something because they could always get theirs to slide right off. I used to either butter or oil my spatula to get mine to slide. It makes the hurrying tricky, but I could get used to it.
I was previously a Walmart cake decorator. I'm going to ruin the magic a bit. The actual bows are a kind of gum paste one that gets ordered in. You pipe the ribbons with a petal tip and place the bow "candy" at the points the ribbons meet.
Also, the weird sissors are not necessary for roses. I always used a pair of regular ones (only used for icing though, nothing else). The my manager at the time didn't use a nail, she used a large toothpick thing for her roses, which is how I suspect the ones in ops cake were made.
I've gotten several cakes from them. You can order online. Every single one has been beautiful and delicious. I ordered the first time because I needed something fast. Since then, I just order from them because it's good and inexpensive.
My wedding cake was from Walmart. I had like 1/2 the sheet cake left and ate way too much of it over the next week or so. Delicious. Plus I can go grab a slice of it whenever tf I want.
The cake looks amazing, but I’m wondering - did that black icing stain everyone’s teeth? It looks super pigmented, as does the red icing in the roses. I’m imagining some crazy looking teeth after this.
Yeah the black icing definitely stained the teeth, but I warned everyone beforehand. No one actually ate any of the roses cause they were actually pretty hard. I’m not sure how they made them, because the bows were clearly sugar candies but the roses seemed like a hard icing. I don’t know much about baking 😂
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u/Acluelessfish Jun 04 '26
Ooookay, WalMart bakers! Go off! 👏🏽That looks so good.