King Cake Hub is proud to bring together some of the best king cakes from New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana as we get ready for Mardi Gras 2024. From years of Carnival tradition to the hot new kids on the king cake block, from filled to unfilled, from danish to brioche, and from your old-school favorites to the new ones you must try, we're your one-stop shop for all things king cake including several flavors exclusive to King Cake Hub! 

(Below is our 2024 lineup of bakeries and king cakes. We can not guarantee availability of any cake on any day.)

 

King Cake Hub Originals

Developed by King Cake Hub and Gambino's. Twelfth Night is "Three Kings Day" or "Epiphany" and marks the beginning of the Mardi Gras season. What better name for the King of Cakes than Epiphany? Try this delicious combination of a sweet Danish dough, cinnamon swirl and cream cheese icing and you'll understand why the Cake of Kings has become New Orleans' King of Cakes!

King Cake Hub Offerings:

• Traditional
• Cream Cheese
• Nutella

 

Dragon Claw was developed by King Cake Hub with the help of Caluda's Bakery. This Asian-inspired cake has a flaky, sweet dough that is folded with butter and cinnamon in the French style. 

Dragon Claw (Exclusive to King Cake Hub!)

 

Gambino's Bakery

In the early 1920s, Beulah Ledner sold baked goods out of her Uptown home on Lowerline and opened her own bakery in 1933. She became known as the "Doberge Queen of New Orleans," inventing the classic cake and becoming a baking legend. In the 1940s she sold her retail location and recipes to Joe Gambino and in 1949 "Joe Gambino's Bakery" was born. Now, Gambino's brings 70 years of Carnival tradition with king cakes made by hand fresh daily with a sweet, special recipe Danish dough that is infused with cinnamon swirls throughout. We are proud to be the exclusive Orleans Parish distributor for the King of King Cakes!

King Cake Hub Offerings:

• Traditional
• Cream Cheese
• Strawberry Cream Cheese
• Bavarian
• Almond

Hi-Do Bakery

In 1975 Ha Do escaped from South Vietnam as the country fell to North Vietnam. Fearing Communist rule he left his family behind and traveled by boat with only the clothes on his back making his way to a refugee camp in Indonesia before finally getting clearance to come to America. After eight years he finally was reunited with his family and in 1989 started his own bakery. Thirty years later, Hi Do Bakery has become a favorite of the West Bank as crowds flock to this Vietnamese bakery for French bread, pastries and amazing king cakes. Utilizing a French style of baking, Hi Do's King Cakes are not to be missed.

King Cake Hub Offerings:

• Traditional with Cinnamon
• Cream Cheese
• Bavarian Cream

Cannata's Bakery

When he was just 12 years old, Vincent Cannata started working at his family's grocery store in the Carrollton area of New Orleans. He milked cows at his family's farm and delivered milk door to door. He expanded to include bread, fruits and vegetables to be delivered to neighbors and other markets including working at the New Orleans French Market. In 1939 he married Fannie Canale and the couple moved to Morgan City and opened up a fruit stand. This would eventually become Morgan City's first modern supermarket. Now, Cannata's has three locations in the Houma & Morgan City area with an in-store restaurant, a huge wine and liquor department and an amazing bakery making over 60 flavors of King Cake! In 2017, their Snickerdoodle Ooey-Gooey King Cake was the People's Choice winner at the annual King Cake Festival and it is out of this world. King Cake Hub is proud the be the exclusive New Orleans distributor for Cannata's yummy king cakes.

King Cake Hub Offerings: (Flavors will vary- other flavors may be available in-house and for pre-order)

• Gooey Butter Snickerdoodle
• Cannata Cannoli
• Salted Caramel
• Traditional Cinnamon
• Gooouie  - A rich White Chocolate King Cake honoring New Orleans Music Ambassador to the World Louis Armstrong.  A portion of sale on the Goouie go to support Second Harvest Food Bank.

Bywater Bakery

From baking starting from the age of sixteen in her high school's culinary program to the Culinary Institute of America to serving as Bakery Manager at Whole Foods to overseeing thousands of King Cakes being cranked out from Rouse's Market, Chaya Conrad brings a lifetime of amazing bakery experience to a place of her very own in New Orleans' Bywater neighborhood. In just a couple of years Bywater Bakery has become a big name in New Orleans' Carnival scene with a Berry Chantilly King Cake that many consider to be a must-get for Mardi Gras. We're proud to be working with one of Carnival's newest shining stars!

King Cake Hub Offerings:

• Carnival- 10 inch fluffy brioche slathered in ooey gooey batter and funfetti sprinkles. 
• Chantilly- 10 inch fluffy brioche overfilled with our signature Chantilly cream and fresh berries
• Azul Dulce Blueberry
• *Look for a couple specials throughout the season

NOCCA

 

 

 

We are very proud to be partnering with the Culinary Arts program of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) as they bring their creative king cakes as a fundraiser for the department. 

• Gluten Free Cinnamon
• Satsuma Almond

 

Caluda's King Cakes 

Caluda's has a 10,000 square foot bakery in Harahan which cranks out thousands of delicious King Cakes every year and also is the home of Cottage Catering, purveyors of Jazz Fest favorites Crawfish Strudel and White Chocolate Bread Pudding! Chef John Caluda's King Cakes are made from a rich, moist Danish dough and brushed with melted butter and cinnamon sugar. Each Caluda’s Mardi Gras King Cake is finished with their very own vanilla icing and sprinkled with handmade Mardi Gras-colored sugars. 

Available Flavors: 

• Plain
• Cream Cheese
• Praline
• Bavarian
• Lemon
• Raspberry Cream Cheese
• Strawberry Cream Cheese
• Praline Cream Cheese
• Mini Plain King Cake

SugarLove Bakery

SugarLove Bakery was founded by Sierra Dee, a local baker who started her business from her kitchen at home. After a couple of years of creating a loyal local following for her custom birthday & wedding cakes (and after completely outgrowing her kitchen) she finally opened her own professional bakery. Sugar Love made a splash and won awards at the last few King Cake Festivals with tasty king cakes and creative individual snacks including their very popular King Cake on a Stick, King Cake Nuggets, and King Cake Bread Pudding! 

Available Flavors: 

• Traditional King Cake
• King Cake on a Stick
• King Cake Nuggets
• King Cake Bread Pudding
• King Cake Hot Chocolate Bomb

Caywood-Randazzo's

From one of the biggest family names in New Orleans king cakes, Caywood-Randazzo's king cakes are made from scratch with the freshest ingredients and made daily with cinnamon incorporated inside of a hand-braided dough with different colored sugar sprinkled on top. 

Available Flavors: 

• Cinnamon (Traditional)
• Cream Cheese
• Royal (sections of cream cheese, apple, lemon and strawberry)

Gracious Bakery

Gracious Bakery + Cafe offers an array of products made by hand, from scratch, and baked off daily with ingredients that reflect their local surroundings. No mixes, bases or shortcuts are used. They use quality ingredients like Plugra butter and King Arthur unbleached and unbromated flour because with baking the basic ingredients can be the most important. They strive to ensure that these values come through in their product. King Cake Hub is delighted to welcome Gracious Bakery as one of our bakery partners! 

• Galette Des Rois
• Almond Queen 
• Chocolate King

 

Breads on Oak

Breads on Oak offers vegan, organic king cakes using all-natural plant based dyes and natural coloring. Their vegan fillings are amazing and few notice the difference  with the high quality organic ingredients they use.  We are especially excited for some of the new boozy flavors that they are adding for 2023!

• Cinnamon
• Almond Cream Filled
• Bavarian
• Cream Cheese
• Salted Caramel Praline
• Strawberry Cream Cheese

Brennan's

One of the most famous names in New Orleans dining culture is Brennan's and we are so excited to welcome them to Kin Cake Hub! ‘All Hail to the King Cakes!’ will ring through the kitchen at Brennan’s as the exceptional artistry of Executive Corporate Pastry Chef Brett Gauthier and the culinary team reaches new levels in king cakery. Local aficionados may think they’ve seen –and tasted – it all, but each of these kingly newcomers is destined to become true New Orleans royalty."

• Traditional
• Pink Parade
• Bananas Foster
• *NEW* Almond Cake (below)

 

Bittersweet Confections

• Traditional
• Chocolate Cream Cheese
• Minis!

 

 

 

Mad Batter Bakery

Based in Chalmette, LA, Mad Batter Bakery creates both traditional as well as unique treats, offering a sweet touch to a couple's big day. Mad Batter Bakery’s story begins in one of the founder’s childhood. As a young girl, she learned to bake from her grandmother and later shared these talents with her own daughter. They would then go on to establish this bakery, creating cakes made using time-tested recipes and techniques.

• Traditional
• Blackberry
• Doberge
• Italian Cream
• Almond Joy
• Peaches and Cream 

 

Marguerite's Cakes

 

Ms Marguerite started making cakes from scratch in her Kitchen in 1978. In the early 80's she was the first baker to put apple filling in her king cakes, then added cream cheese and the rest is history! Her business grew rapidly by word of mouth, she had to open her first bakery in Kenner but she quickly outgrew that location and moved to Slidell where she is at present. Marguerite specializes in King Cakes, Wedding Cakes, Cookies, Doberge Cakes, Special Occasion Cakes, Cookie Cakes, Pies, Cheescakes, Fondant and so much more!! 

• Traditional
• Cream Cheese
• Cajun Praline
• Pineapple
• Pina Colada
• Queen with Cheese - perfect for those who can't decide.  this cake is stuffed throughout with cream cheese and each section has a different fruit strawberry, blueberry, raspberry and cherry fillings

Belinda's Gluten Free King Cakes 

 

Belinda Dahan, native New Orleanian and former owner of the restaurant Waffles on Maple, has been baking gluten-free king cakes since 2015. Originally having crafted her recipe to accommodate her daughter’s gluten intolerance, her king cakes have become a local favorite being gluten-free, nut and dairy free, (with the exception of cream cheese filling) made from scratch, and hand braided. Belinda’s Gluten Free King Cakes will be available to purchase during Mardi Gras season.

Gluten Free Traditional

Gluten Free Cream Cheese

Gluten Free Strawberry Cream Cheese

Gluten Free Bavarian

Paw Paw's Donuts

• King Cake Filled Donuts
• Pull-Apart Chocolate Cream King Cake 
• Pull-Apart Vanilla Bean King Cake
• Pull-Apart Cream Cheese Custard King Cake

District Donuts

• Almond - Danish style croissant dough flavored with almonds

Lifelong New Orleanian, Kirby Jones joins King Cake Hub with a selection of puff pastry style king cakes.  Her cakes are rich and decadent with the addition of ingredients like edible rose petals, almond frangipane and a yummy buttercream icing.  Her savory is loaded with crawfish, butter, holy trinity and parmesan sprinkled with fresh thyme.   

• Creole Queen - a creole cream cheese
• Rose Queen - filled with rose cabe syrup and topped with buttercream and rose petals
• Almond Queen - filled with rich almond fragipane and topped with buttercream
• Don Creole Crawfish

Laurel Street Bakery is family owned New Orleans bakery. At Laurel Street Bakery, all items are baked from scratch, by hand, using only all-natural top quality ingredients – the way baking is supposed to 

• Nutella
• Strawberry Cream Cheese
• Sampler - Container Nutella, Strawberry Cream Cheese, Almond and Traditional

 

 

 

 The Cake Guy & Macronage



 

King Cake Macarons

Big Boy Ooey Gooey King Cake

Big Boy Ooey Gooey. The name says it all. Eat this. 

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NOTE: Not all flavors listed above will be available daily and selection may vary. 

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