At Costco, this Kirkland, Signature, Tuxedo Cake is a famous bakery item among products and brands in the grocery store, sold in the United States, USA, Canada, and loved by Canadian shoppers everywhere today.
The names are almost identical, the same good thing, and after I read several positive online reviews, I was glad I did find it. At first, it looked weird, plastic-looking, sitting in a plastic box.
It had perfect, geometric sides, an unnaturally smooth texture, like soap, a generic, mass-produced, expensive slab of gunk, but the hype made me want it enough to try once.
Kirkland Signature Tuxedo Cake Review-The Short Answer
Once bought and purchased, this bar of wonder became one of the best, Hands down, ever, period desserts I’ve had. I’ve tried many desserts, even joked about deserts, and I eat cake often.
I know this stand-alone Cake rivals top-notch bakeries in my city or a local bakery. The visually appealing, fancy, rectangular, huge slab felt long, longer, bigger, like a mother cake.
It was cut into slabs, like baby pieces. I measured it at shy of 12 inches, about 2.5 pounds, and cut a respectable 1.5 inch slice, because my momma didn’t raise a wuss.
After a small piece, my tastebuds hit heaven while my stomach screamed. The cake is extremely, incredibly, rich, filling, and heavy, so a little goes a long way for most people.
It consists of different layers: a dense, bold-flavored, moist, chocolaty, chocolatey Chocolate layer at the bottom, with creamy Mousse, cream, brownie chunks and pieces throughout.
There is vanilla, white and dark chocolate, cocoa, ganache, and icing, all sandwiched, topped, and decorated with sticks and nibs. The flavors feel sweet, decadent, smooth, thick, and bold.
They are never dry or artificial-tasting, thanks to high-quality ingredients. Overall, it may be too much, overly super sugary for some, but to me it’s more-rich and very important when picking a cake.
I wanted to finish my slice, I tried, then stopped, slightly freaked, lost in pointless day-dreaming. It does what great cake can’t fail to do: absolutely delicious, better, irresistible, and one I recommend, in my opinion.
What Makes the Layers and Textures So Addictive?
As a baker, I’ve tried many cakes, but this Costco signature tuxedo cake made me pause. I was honestly asking myself what makes it special. It really boils down to flavors and textures. The top layer is thick, ganache-like icing with solidified drizzle fragments embedded, tasting rich, slightly salty, and oddly dream-able.
The dark chocolate layers explain why this cake exists in the first place. Even though it’s mass-produced and store-bought, the texture feels nearly homemade, dense yet soft and moist—nothing like a box mix. I was truly impressed. The white layer looked boring and bland, something to power through, but it became my favorite.
That almost airy cheesecake layer is creamy, cheesy, mildly sweet, and tangy, like recess at school. The main event is the mousse—not simple pudding, but a sophisticated, adult version. It’s silky, weightless, luscious, melts in the mouth, and tastes like cream. IMO, the brownie chunks slightly interrupt, but the cake is still super good and hard to fully discuss in a short review.
Ingredients Snapshot
This review of the Kirkland Signature Chocolate Tuxedo Cake from Costco looks closely at the ingredients and full ingredients list behind the product.The first ingredient is cream, which explains the creamy texture and rich buttery buttery goodness.
My body wants it and knows when it hasn’t gotten desserts made with real cream instead of zero cream.When random people ask what makes it so good, I stare dreamily into space and mumble one word: dairy.
The cake is absolutely loaded, but unfortunately it’s also a hot mess of less desirable ingredients, unhealthy foods, unhealthy ingredients, and additives.
The cake contains and may contain wheat, wheat flour, milk, whole milk, nonfat milk, nonfat dry milk, egg, eggs, egg whites, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame.
Its base includes CREAM, milk solids, cream cheese, whey, lactose, butter oil, cellulose gel, cellulose gum, carrageenan, guar gum, propylene glycol alginate, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, gellan gum, and sodium alginate.
It is combined with sugar, water, salt, sodium, bicarbonate, baking powder, molasses, dextrose, and modified corn starch.
Flavor comes from chocolate products like dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, unsweetened chocolate, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, chocolatey coating, and decorations.
Fats include margarine, shortening, modified palm oil, modified palm kernel oil, palm kernel oil, canola oil, soybean oils, mono-diglycerides, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, and medium chain triglycerides.
Stability and color rely on soy lecithin, sunflower lecithin, natural flavor, natural flavors, artificial flavors, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, beta-carotene, color, caramel color, artificial colors, FD&C, red 40, blue 2 lake, yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake, cholecalciferol, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, preservatives, polysorbate 60, and bacterial culture.
Nutrients come from enriched flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid.
Cost & Storage Value
- At Costco, the Tuxedo Cake under Kirkland Signature has a price currently set at $18.99, updated on 9/25, and it has gone up $3 over the past couple years—Boo, but it’s still competitive for what you get.
- The package says the cake weighs 2 pounds 10 ounces, but when I weighed mine, it came closer to 3 4 pounds—Huzzah, which makes the value feel better.
- It’s supposed to have 16 servings, so per each serving you would cost about $1.13, based on the advertised weight of 43 cents per ounce.
- I took pictures of different Tuxedo cakes more than a year apart, and I bet you can’t tell which dessert is which because it stays amazingly consistent in appearance and taste, and I hope it stays that way.
- In my opinion, the value extends beyond the U.S.; in Canada, it sells for $16.99 Canadian, the same as Tiramisu Cake, which feels very reasonable.
- I can easily see it serving 12 people with reasonably-sized slices, making it pretty inexpensive on a per-serving basis.
- I once purchased a chocolate cake for $48 from a fancy local bakery with signature items—it was really good, but not $30 better, even close.
- This one tastes just as good, and in the USD market it costs $16.99, which isn’t bad for a rich, decadent, delicious tuxedo cake.
- In Canada, a similar size still goes for $18.99 Canadian, reinforcing why this cake keeps its reputation.
Nutrition Overview
- 1/12th cake contains 410 calories, 25 grams fat, 41 grams carbohydrates, 31 grams sugar, five grams protein, two grams fiber, 310 milligrams sodium, obviously high, not many surprises here, and bound to be delectable.
- 1/16th slice, a 77-gram piece approximately half of the photo above, contains 280 calories, 17 grams fat, 29 grams carbohydrates, four grams protein, 190 milligrams sodium, not great, especially for a small amount, but think it’s worse than an average cake only slightly.
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