Make this into a series! you could test all the classic flavours like chocolate, vanilla, carrot,... then make one group out of the odd and unusual flavours, and you could also test different types of desserts and pastries :) Though it would be great to see Tesco and MS included as well :P
As an American it is wild to see shelf stable cakes like that! All of our grocery store cakes will usually be kept in a cold case by the bakery. How fun to learn and see something new today! 🤗
@@georgieroberts8697 Don't think it's the eggs....Once out of the shell , eggs from US/Canada and UK are equal. We have to refrigerate our eggs because the eggs are washed before going into stores and therefore lose their protective coating on the shells.But you are right about the buttercream...no butter or cream in that...what a misnomer!
Fondant can be good if it’s homemade …but buttercream is better. I think fondant is mainly used for the decorative element, but still, butter cream decorated cake looks prettier, at least I think so.
Fondant is objectively inferior, however it is delicious, and I love it, the plasticky, plasticine consistency is my favourite and I don't want a birthday cake without it!!
Im sure I wasn’t the only one internally screaming “TESCO AND M+S” the whole way through the video!!! They are two of the most OG British supermarkets (looking at you aldi and lidl) that I don’t know how on earth you could’ve forgotten them!! nevertheless, great video!
@@alankimber1979 Facts. I didn’t know about how great they were until my partner got me one done for my birthday this year. Best £30 spent ever. I’m even going to get it again just because it was super delish I can’t even explain. It was a regular sponge with jam and cream and that’s my least favourite but it was incredible! Highly recommend 😊
Hard agree on raspberry being the superior jam for balance of flavours. If you're doing strawbs it's gotta be fresh ones with fresh whipped cream imo. Although I'm a May baby so strawberry season is always around my birthday so maybe I'm biased haha
This is some of my favourite content - would loooove to see a chocolate cake one! I'm also dying for you to do a brand name v supermarket brand blindfolded taste test
Loving the wide-angle lens on the new go pro!!! It's like a reverse Francis Bourgeois and I'm here for it! Also missed my love and joy the M&S.... tried one of their' cakes in a jar' the other day. divine.
Standard American birthday cakes are either sheet cakes or two-tiered round cakes always with buttercream. So interesting that fondant is standard in the UK!
I live in America and I remember that, as a child, you could go to like Publix or Winn Dixie (maybe on WD, not sure) and go to the bakery section and they have a book full of cake designs based off of movies/shows/fandoms and you got to choose which you wanted and they would make it and personalize it for you. Fond memories as a child, being so excited to pick out my birthday cake lol. I think they still do this, too.
I've never bought a premade cake that was not refrigerated. Anyway, I like bakery cakes best. Go to the bakery, order your cake, pick it up later - of course home made is tops but the pre-fab cakes have me shaking my head! 💜
It was my birthday last week, I got a £4 birthday cake from Aldi because I was intrigued. One of the best cakes I’ve had, was so good the following morning out of the fridge. Leftover birthday cake is the breakfast of kings
COSTCO!! 😆👍 Costco is headquartered here in the Seattle area and I used to work at HQ in travel. Awesome company. The cake is good, but there's SO MUCH OF IT! 😆😆😆 It was interesting watching your reactions. You didn't have one from M&S, either! (Or does Collin just rule in the cake department there?) HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRACE!!!! 🎉🎂🍰
42 Celcius is 107.5 Farenheit. Even here is Texas that is hot. Have no idea how you get through this without air conditioning. Take extra good care of yourself. Enjoyed the birthday cake comparisons. Did you notice the Unicorn cake price differences? Waitrose was quite a lot more. Glad you like American birthday cakes! Me too! Happy Birthday, Grace! Very best wishes for the best of everything that is good in life.
hahaha I was wondering why you left Tesco out!!!😆 Love these kind of videos! It would have been perfect with you dad as a judge too, we love his commentary LOL
So fun.... I was eyeing up a cake in the shops for my bday... they were pretty pricey for plain ones though! Saw some fun fun caramel, chocolate creations!!
This is actually the perfect video qt the perfect time ! It's my birthday next Monday and I'm currently doing an internship in the UK! I was thinking about what I wanted to do for the day since I usually celebrate with other people but this time I'm all alone (I'm a bit scared by that) and I have to work during the day. But you've given me some inspiration on what cake to buy myself so I think I can do something nice after all ☺️☺️
In Australia we don't get a lot of shelf stable cakes and not Birthday ones, just like loaf cakes, and definitely would NOT have one at a birthday. Our main supermarkets have bakeries in them or supplying them so you can get both fresh and mock cream cakes and you can order them as giant slab cakes too. We don't really have fondant cakes except fruit cake at Xmas. Definitely think you should see if you can pick up 'birthday cakes' from around the world at different bakeries around near you. What are the traditional cakes for birthdays in Italy, China, Korea, Australia, Kenya, Canada, Brazil etc :) Would LOVE to see that!! Keep creating love your videos :)
I really enjoyed that :) as all your videos actually. I had a little thought. The best before date could have influenced the freshness of the cake aswell! This could be something to consider for the next cake tasting :)
Love cake decorating. Not so much baking cakes. For all my kids’ cakes, I ordered a plain round from the store bakery (usually white buttercream with trim), then took it home to decorate. Marmalade or lemon curd would be lovely in a cake; the tartness would offset the sugar.
Happy Birthday to the sweetest creator on RU-vid. Personally fondant is for decoration and buttercream is for icing. Here in North America you can get ice cream cakes. Next level delicious.
Hi Grace, your videos always feel like sunshine to me😊 Question- when you talk about price (cheap, expensive) do you calculate price per gram? Because a big cake could be a good value for how many people it feeds despite a higher overall price!
Is it just me or has anyone else from Germany never seen a cake specifically labelled as birthday cake in Lidl? Because I have to say it does look appealing
I'm from another European country, and we don't have that either. I'll do you one better tho, fresh cakes have been introduced to our Lidls in the past year or two ;)
This looks like a fun activity to do with friends and family 😄😋🎂 Aldi and Lidl are definitely not the same company, but have similar products. It is so wild to see how much supermarkets or discounters, like Aldi and Lidl, differ in each country. Even though both shops (Aldi, Lidl) are German I can guarantee that you'll never find anything similar to these cakes here! 😂 You find some cakes in the freezer section, but nothing compared to a specific 'birthday cake' 😄 Very interesting to see how much they change their range of goods to meet the customer's wishes in each country 🍰🧁🥧 And just out of curiosity, who ate all these cakes after the taste testing?! 🤣😅
Ah so there is this type of birthday cake. I lived in England for a year - I had been missing US cake so much. The lovely people I was staying with got me a cake for my birthday and I was so excited - until it was fruitcake covered in fondant. Then I was a +1 to a wedding - surely this was gonna be my cake moment…Fruitcake with fondant. It’s left long lasting scars. 😂
My husband’s groom cake was fruit cake, but it was his mom’s recipe, and soooo good. It’s a Canadian tradition that my American family was pretty excited about. (After the first brave soul *tried* the cake and declared it “f*cking GOOD!”)
Happy birthday in advance for Sunday. Do love a Grackle taste test!! Saw you in 'The Sun ' newspaper, lol. (For the John Lewis returns package video)!!
The lady let you go in front because she wanted to spend a few extra minutes in the air con! 😂 Don't come to western Australia! We get days of over 40s in a row! We are more built for the heat here but when your houses doesn't get a respite to cool down in between the 43+°C, it stays like an oven and no at home airconditioner system can do anything to help.
Preservatives. These are cheap, mass produced cakes. Nothing wrong with that, but if you want a fresh birthday cake in the UK you’d order it at a bakery. My favourite off the shelf cake is the rainbow cake at Marks and Spencer - affordable and delicious.
Our white cake is made with just egg whites, and are often whipped. Our cakes are also very sweet to me and i often only have a little of a store bought cake.
Costco cake......but that is pure sugar. I moved to Canada from the Scotland and I miss fondant birthday cakes so much. Although I do get my fondant fix at christmas.
So on your actual birthday can your family all be in the video rating ice cream cakes from super market to fancy-that's what we have in the summer in Oz, so perfect for hot weather fun. Happy Birthday To You
Great video! Lets make it a series! Asda also sells a Mega Madeira Celebration Cake for 6 pounds (it looks similar to the Aldi and Lidl ones) and it would be amazing to include Tesco and M&S
In Poland I don't believe I have ever seen such things as birthday cakes in supermarkets 🤔 And how are they not refrigerated? I'm confused and I have questions 😁 I believe we only have bakeries/pastry shops where there are ready-made cakes.