Costco is now testing digital ordering for custom bakery items, including sheet cakes. In select locations, primarily on the West Coast, members can place cake orders directly through the Costco app.

It's a little confusing, but oh, so worth it.

Since childhood, the visage of Costco's bakery has reverberated in my mind's eye as a happy place full of giant muffins, croissants sweating slightly in their plastic clamshell, and the grocery outlet ...