An opossum with a legendary sweet tooth is on the road to recovery after eating an entire chocolate cake from Costco.

A real estate agent in Omaha, Nebraska, got an unexpected houseguest this week – a hungry opossum gorging on the Tuxedo Chocolate Mousse Cake she recently bought from Costco.

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I knew there was no way I could just leave a sick opossum there overnight. Obviously, it had too much of a good thing.”

A "choco-holic" opossum who went to town on a Nebraska family's Costco chocolate cake just days before Valentine's Day is now in recovery.

An opossum with a sweet tooth got ahead of herself for Valentine’s Day. She was admitted to the hospital for eating an entire chocolate cake.

An overstuffed opossum couldn't move after eating most of a Costco chocolate mousse cake. Rescuers discovered another surprising health issue and may have saved her life.

Nebraska Wildlife Rehab in Omaha recently posted about one of their most entertaining patients: an opossum who had to be admitted to the hospital after eating an entire Costco chocolate cake. Following some time in the center—and a diet reset—she should be safe to be released.

The “cake bandit” was found outside Kim Doggett’s Omaha home earlier this month. It was a cold February day, and she had stored a Costco chocolate mousse cake on her back porch when she ran out of room in her fridge, Nebraska Wildlife Rehab’s Executive Director Laura Stastny said in a statement to The Independent.

Doggett, who lives in Gretna, Nebraska, near Omaha, then forgot about the tuxedo cake with chocolate ganache, which one reviewer described as a religious experience.