If you have a Costco membership, you probably already know that every Costco warehouse has its own bakery. But did you know that most of their bakery products — from cookies and muffins to their famous sheet cakes — get made fresh daily? Some items are ready to grab and go, but others like made-to-order sheet cakes will require a bit more planning on your part.
For custom-made bakery items, understanding the ordering process is key. The steps you have to follow to place a Costco sheet cake order can feel a bit mysterious (you still can't order a cake online in 2025, and the price recently went up!), but it's worth it for the quality and value you get. You can even create your own Costco wedding cake for cheap.
Between the bakery goodies and our Costco Catering hacks, you’ll be well-equipped to feed a crowd on a budget. And if you don’t need as much food, there's always the Costco Food Court menu or Costco's premade meals that'll come in handy.
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What can you find at the Costco Bakery?
The exact list of Costco Bakery products will vary depending on your location, but you can generally expect to find these sorts of items at every warehouse:
Artisan rolls
Bagels
Bread loaves and baguettes
Cheesecake
Cinnamon Rolls
Cookies (mini and regular-sized)
Croissants
Cupcakes
Half-sheet cakes
Mini cakes
Muffins
Pastries and danishes
Pies
Round cakes (9" or 10")
A handful of seasonal items and special flavors also get stocked throughout the year, like pumpkin pie during the holidays and lemon meringue cheesecake in the summer.
How to Order From the Costco Bakery
There are only three different items you'll need to special-order in advance from the Costco Bakery: their 10-inch round cake ($16.99), the half-sheet cake ($26.99), and the 60-count variety cookie tray ($22.99). The rest of the bakery items are ready to be picked up on the shelves.
Here's the process for placing a Costco bakery order:
Pick up an order form at the bakery.
Fill it out (including your requested pickup date and time).
Drop the form off in the submission box.
Return at the designated time to pick up your order.
Pay for your order at the regular checkout lines.
KCL TIP: My Costco store in Florida also lets me pre-order additional bakery items like muffins and danishes. For example, I pre-ordered 10 dozen muffins and danishes for a teacher appreciation breakfast so that the bakery would have them ready for us. But I’ve learned that not all Costco bakeries will do this, so be sure to ask the employees at your warehouse.
How far in advance should I place a Costco bakery order?
You'll need to submit the Costco Special Order Cake Form at least one day in advance. I recommend calling your local Costco bakery to learn their specific ordering policy, as the turnaround time can vary depending on the item and how busy the store is.
And remember, you have to fill out the order form in person. Unfortunately, you can't place a bakery order over the phone.
Where can I find the Costco Cake Order Form for 2025?
Costco sheet cakes don’t have an online ordering option, so you’ll need to visit a warehouse in-person to drop off your order form order.
If you want to fill out the form ahead of time, use this Costco Cake Order Form (PDF) and bring it with you to the warehouse. Just make sure your store's version of the form looks the same as our printable version.
Costco Bakery Secrets to Know
1. Costco cakes come in only two flavors and two sizes.
Costco only offers two sizes of cakes: a 10-inch round cake or a half-sheet cake. You can find the 10-inch cakes ready-made in the bakery, either decorated plain or with a seasonal design. Before the year 2020, you could also find the half-sheet cakes ready in the bakery, but now they'll need to be a special order.
Just like their limited sizes, Costco cakes come in only two flavors:
White vanilla cake with vanilla cheesecake mousse and white buttercream icing
Chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and chocolate buttercream icing
2. Your kids might get a free cookie from the Costco bakery if you ask.
Certain bakeries might give your kids a sample of a cookie if you ask. My Costco location doesn't offer this, but it won't hurt to check.
3. Costco sheet cakes got $2 more expensive in February 2025 — now up to $26.99.
Ever since summer 2022, Costco half-sheet cakes were priced at $24.99, which came out to $0.52 per slice. But in February 2025, we noticed that Costco quietly increased the price of their half-sheet cakes to $26.99, which comes out to $0.56 per slice.
That's still a good value, but not the absolute cheapest sheet cake out there. Sam's Club charges $20.98 for a half-sheet cake as of February 2025, but theirs is just a single layer of cake with no filling. Costco cakes offer the better bang for your buck because you get a double-layered cake with filling in between.
4. Most items get baked fresh daily in the warehouse.
Have you ever wondered what's made fresh at the Costco bakery? I was curious, so I asked the employees what's baked in-house. Turns out, pretty much everything you see is baked right there in the warehouse. Costco makes some bakery items completely from scratch, while others get baked on-site after they arrive frozen.
When the buzzed-about Costco chocolate peanut butter pie came around, my store said they make and prepare the whole thing on-site. The apple pie, however, arrives frozen. The bakers at Costco add the lattice top and sugar to the apple pie before baking it in the store.
5. Some Costco desserts are only around for a limited time.
Costco's dessert selection varies throughout the year. While some treats like the Costco tiramisu are available year-round, others make seasonal appearances. But staple items such as Costco cakes, cookies, muffins, and pastries are always on the menu.
Some of the most popular seasonal desserts include the Costco pumpkin pie in the fall season and the four berry pie or lemon meringue cheesecake in summer.
6. You can make your own Costco wedding cake on a budget.
According to Brides.com, the average cost of a wedding cake runs $2.50 - $8 per slice. If you’re looking for a cost-effective way to serve cake at your wedding, you have a few options with Costco.
You could buy a small fancy wedding cake for the photo op, but then purchase a separate Costco sheet cake to actually serve to guests.
Another option is to buy a sheet cake and a round cake from Costco and stack the pieces on top of each other. Once you decorate the cake with flowers and icing, no one will know it's from Costco.
7. Skip Cinnabon — grab cinnamon rolls from Costco and save $3.82 per roll.
Costco sells a 6-pack of cinnamon rolls for $12.99. When warmed, they're as gooey as Cinnabon but cheaper — and possibly even tastier.
Each Costco cinnamon roll comes out to $2.17, but at Cinnabon, one cinnamon roll will cost you $5.99. So you're saving about $3.82 per cinnamon roll by shopping at Costco.
8. Costco's almond croissant pastries are 53% cheaper than similar Starbucks pastries.
In January 2025, Costco introduced a new almond croissant pastry, priced at $11.99 for a 6-pack. That comes out to about $2 per filled pastry. Considering that similar Starbucks pastries will cost you $3.95 - $4.25, you're saving at least $1.95 per pastry with the Costco deal.
Plus, the Costco almond croissant pastries are giant — each weighing about a third of a pound.
9. You can get a dozen massive Costco muffins for $9.99 — but this deal might be going away soon.
For the longest time, Costco has let you mix and match their 6-packs of bakery muffins so that you can try multiple flavors easily. Regardless of the two flavors you pick, you pay $9.99 for a dozen 5.8-ounce muffins, which comes out to $0.83 per muffin.
That's a better price per muffin than Walmart, where a 4-pack of 3.5-ounce muffins costs $3.98 ($1 per muffin). The only store that rivals Costco on price is Sam's Club, where a 9-pack of muffins costs $7.48 ($0.83 per muffin).
Here are a few of the 6-pack Costco muffin flavors available:
Blueberry Muffins
Double Chocolate Muffins
Coffeecake Muffins
But the bad news is that this deal might be changing soon (if it hasn't already at your store). We've heard they're eventually going to switch to an 8-pack of a single flavor of muffins for $6.99, which makes the price per muffin slightly worse.
10. Return any Costco bakery item for a full refund if you aren't satisfied.
Even if you've taken a bite or a piece from the bakery item, you can get a full refund, thanks to the perks of the generous Costco return policy.
11. You can buy a 120-count box of frozen cookie dough from a Costco Business Center.
There are lots of rumors online that you can buy Kirkland Signature cookie dough from any ol' Costco bakery. But when we checked out this rumor, we learned that you'll only find the frozen cookie dough at Costco Business Center stores in the U.S. (there are only 27 of those) — or at regular Costco stores in Canada.
Luckily, I do live near a Costco Business Center (the one in Florida), and I've confirmed that they do sell a 120-count box of frozen Kirkland Signature cookie dough for $26.99, which comes out to just $0.22 per cookie.
If you want to bake your own Costco cookies at home and don't live near a Costco Business Center, you'll need to buy your cookies already baked ($10.99 for 24 cookies).
12. Costco doesn't include nutrition facts on bakery items — but there's a workaround.
Looking for the nutrition facts of Costco's bakery items? They don't print the nutrition facts on bakery items, but you can look up the information in these two ways:
In-person at the bakery (nutrition facts are usually posted near the custom cake order station)
On the Costco Same-Day Delivery website (just search for any item)
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