Has anyone seen strawberry cheesecake at Costco, recently?

[RAMd®d]

A few of us were discussing cheesecake today, and we all agreed that the strawberry variety Costco once carried was quite tasty.

But none of us has seen any in a couple of years or more, at any of the stores near us.

I found out that Trader Joe's is supposed to sell personal sized cakes, and they take ApplePay, so I'll have to check out the claim.

[3d]

Those Costco cakes are a big commitment. Costco should sell them in quarter size containers. Supermarkets do that with their pies. And that's for a normal size pie. From just casual glancing walking by, I've seen plain cheescake all the time. Add your own $2 jar of syrupy strawberry jam topping? You can tell your guests it's semi-homemade. :yum:

[pRICE cUBE]

I see it every day on my waistline.

[rgG]

I have not noticed the strawberry cheesecake at Cosco lately.
They do have a LOT of other drool worth desserts in the bakery section though. Some sort of Tres Leches thing comes to mind first. Ooooooooooo. Wipes drool off phone.

Edit. So apparently L e c h e s is forbidden. Guess we don't "have milk," at least not in Spanish

[Microman]

I bought 3 regular cheescakes in their bakery for $12.99? for an event my daughter was having.

about a week ago or 10 days

No Strawberrys

[OWC Jamie]

no

[GeneL]

I really hate to say this, but I look at the labels on their appealing looking products and see so many ingredients with unpleasant chemical names and I don't want that crap in my already doomed body.

Baked goods should only have the time tested basic ingredients that you would use, if you chose to bake. It's hard to find really good bakeries here in the OC and believe me, I've looked.

Coming from NY, originally, and living in LA for many years, I had always found great bakeries. Not so, here in south Orange County. Years ago, there was a Dutch baker that made the most delicious custard eclairs and napoleons. His custard was, as they say, to die for. I've tried the efforts of every supposed topnotch bakery that I could find and none of them could make a wonderful custard.

I guess that art is lost when so much of the products are made to a mass market corporate standard.

Cheesecake is another big disappointment for me, since Morton's stopped bringing in a wonderfully dense authentic cheescake from the Bronx. I grew up with the unbelievably wonderful Cheesecake from Lindy's in NYC. It was served with a gravy boat full of strawberries in a glaze that didn't taste artificial the way that type of topping tastes nowadays.

Oh well, sigh...

[Buzz]

Don't really pay specific attention to desserts, but have noticed that the selection of stuff varies from one store to the next... may be advantageous to check around if you live in an area that has multiple stores. Here in SoCal w/ friends and relatives spread over several counties, our "normal" travels take us past many Costco stores, so there's ample opportunity to source things. Call around to a few more Costcos, or hopefully you'll like TJ's and it will be moot, but if if you've gotta have the Costco original, the phone and crowd sourcing are your friends.
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[RAMd®d]

I really hate to say this, but I look at the labels on their appealing looking products and see so many ingredients with unpleasant chemical names and I don't want that crap in my already doomed body.

I'm ok with it.


Add your own $2 jar of syrupy strawberry jam topping?

That sounds like a way to ruin even a decent cheesecake, let alone a good one. But neither have I see *any* cheesecakes at any of the three Costcos near me. I did see a variety cake a couple of times, but it wasn't very appealing.


but if if you've gotta have the Costco original

It's not so much as having to have th original, but it did set the bar pretty high.

Polling this august forum is about as motivated as I'll get in a quest for strawberry cheesecake.

Well, that and checking out a Trader Joe's.

[RAMd®d]

…while at Trader Joe's, I can look for a Chinese restaurant style sweet and sour sauce.

Not for the cheesecake, just to be clear.