Shop Bought Cakes

You will need to be a member to be able to buy Costco items so have a look at their eligibilty critera and if you are only going for a cake it will work out expensive as it costs £55 off the top of my head for the basic membership.

M&S and Waitrose do nice cakes albeit expensive, but have a look at Tesco as they used to do traditional iced cakes that had different tier sizes. No sure if they still do.

Costco cakes are delicious!

Their Carrot Cake is especially lush! You do need to be a member though, so you need to check out the criteria.

Alternatively, if you know someone who is already a member, you can go with them as their +1

M&S cakes are also delicious - I know a few people who have gone that route and loved it

My in-laws are members, so I'd buy through them £55 is so expensive for a membership isn't it?!

I'm not too fussed on plain white iced cakes I don't think (maybe one for a fruit cake so there's a bit variety). M&S have some indulgent looking coffee and chocolate cakes, so maybe something like that. Also some mini cupcakes.

We have about £100 to spend on filling a table with cake to use as dessert for 50 people and then hopefully be some leftovers for the evening buffet.

We got our cake from M&S -> http://www.marksandspencer.com/shimmering-hoop-chocolate-wedding-cake-dark-and-gold-/p/p60058199?prevPage=plp

It was delicious, I had about four pieces (had been crazy dieting beforehand mind).

Word of warning though, the cake was all joined up when we picked it up. We thought we'd have to spend the day assembling tiers, but it was already put together and the icing over top was seamless, i.e. you couldn't have separated the cakes underneath. We just put the big choc hoops on and it was done. Something to bear in mind if you do order one, as you want to have the tiers separated ??

Ah, that's okay.

We weren't thinking of getting a tiered one and then separating it- just getting individual cakes! Your cake looked lush btw.

The M&S wedding cakes are delicious. My friend had a chocolate one with white ruffle icing. They're expensive though so I don't think that your £100 would stretch far unless you just bought their regular cakes? So lemon drizzle cake etc etc and placed them on a table X

Can you approach a local bakery? Our local bakery does amazing cakes and they're really reasonably priced. It might be nice to have bespoke flavours/fillings rather than whatever is on sale in M&S?

It doesn't matter because you're going to use your in laws card, but just thought I'd clarify that membership is only £30, I've had a card in the past. £55 is for 'Executive membership' whatever that means...

I love the look of this cake! If I hadn't already ordered one then I would definitely be going for this one.

This is my favourite cake! No way could I have packed that for Lapland tho! Unless it was in my tum ?