Carnival season is nearly here, and we're taking pre-orders for king cakes! This year, you can feast on two of our classic cakes, plus three exclusive, limited-edition collaborations with Emeril Lagasse, Frank Brigtsen, and the Krewe of Muses. You can also buy these cakes with great coffee from French Truck Coffee! (
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Classic flavors
Louisiana Satsuma & Almond: Our premiere classic king cake combines the tart, tangy taste of homegrown satsumas with sumptuous almond paste. The brioche-style dough is braided, glazed with even more satsuma, and dusted with purple, green, and gold edible glitter. Give it as a gift or enjoy it yourself!
Gluten-Free Cinnamon: Love the taste of a classic New Orleans king cake but want to forgo the gluten? This is the Carnival treat for you! Soft and pillowy inside, with a not-too-sweet cinnamon ribbon and crust, vanilla glaze, and shimmery edible glitter, this is a cake for everyone to enjoy!
Dubai Chocolate: We'd planned to run this brand-new cake for a limited time, but after tasting it, we think it'll be in demand all season long! If you've never had a Dubai chocolate bar, expect a rich blend of pistachios, chocolate, and vanilla, mixed with heavy cream and kataifi (shredded phyllo), baked in our brioche-style dough!
Limited edition flavors
LIMITED-EDITION: Chef Emeril Lagasse's Banana Cream Pie King Cake (available Jan 6-18): NOCCA faculty and students have performed Carnival magic by transforming Chef Emeril's beloved banana cream pie into a magnificent king cake! Enjoy real bananas wrapped in a luscious vanilla cream, baked inside NOCCA's soft, lightly sweet, brioche-style dough. Available for two weeks only!
LIMITED-EDITION: Chef Frank Brigtsen's Strawberry Tres Leches King Cake (available Jan 19-29): No one loves strawberries more than NOCCA's first-ever Chef-in-Residence, Chef Frank. In this one-of-a-kind king cake, he celebrates the season with fresh strawberries wrapped in tres leches custard and fresh strawberry jam inside our dough. Available for two weeks only!
LIMITED-EDITION: The Goddess, celebrating the Krewe of Muses! (available Jan 30 - Feb12 only): Painters and fashion designers may have their muses, but in New Orleans, we have a whole krewe of them, and they've asked us to create a cake to celebrate Muses' 25th anniversary! "The Goddess" features figs and creamy goat cheese, paired with candied orange, thyme, and toasted walnuts: the unmistakable flavors of Greece. "The Goddess" doesn't compete within the realm of king cakes -- she outranks them all! This divinely inspired delicacy is only available to mortals through Muses tHERsday.
Note: Each cake comes with a special bean for you to hide in the cake. Like plastic king cake babies, the bean isn't for eating.
WHERE TO FIND OUR KING CAKES
Order your king cake right here and pick it up at Press Street Station any Saturday or Sunday you choose. You can pick up on Epiphany (January 6) and "Muses tHERsday" (February 12), too!
You can also find our cakes at the King Cake Hub (KingCakeHub.com), located at 3300 Gravier Street (map). We deliver fresh cakes to them almost every day of the week! Please note that you CANNOT pre-order a king cake here and pick it up at King Cake Hub. Anything pre-ordered here must be picked up at Press Street Station.
This year, we'll be shipping cakes on Wednesdays. There's more info about all of this below.
TO ORDER FOR PICKUP
Ordering for pickup is easy:
Step #1: Pick the flavor(s) you want.
Step #2: Pick the date that you want to pick up your cake(s). Please note, we don't typically make extra cakes, so your cake will only be available on the date you've chosen.
Step #3: On the date you've chosen, pick up your cake at Press Street Station (at the corner of Royal and Homer Plessy Way) from 9am-12pm.
Please note: All king cakes are made to order. Cutoff time for orders is 3pm two days before the desired pickup. For example, if you want to pick up a cake on Saturday, January 10, you'll need to order it by Thursday, January 8 at 3pm. We strongly encourage you to order early, because we may sell out in advance of the 3pm deadline!
TO ORDER FOR SHIPPING
Every Wednesday of the Carnival season, we'll prepare orders for shipping to anywhere in the continental U.S. We recommend a shorter ship time to ensure freshness.
Please note that we will ship out your order on your chosen date, but once it leaves our hands, we don't have any control over the delivery process. We can't offer refunds for items that arrive late. Thank you for understanding!
REFUNDS
Our king cakes are made to order, so we can't offer refunds after the purchasing window has closed. If you'd like a refund, please email us no later than 3pm two days before pickup (e.g. Thursday at 3pm for a Saturday pickup). Our address is marketplace@noccafoundation.org. Cakes that aren't picked up within 48 hours of their scheduled pick-up time will be scrapped.
INGREDIENTS
Louisiana Satsuma & Almond: wheat flour, water, oil, milk, eggs, sugar, yeast, salt, satsuma, almonds, powdered sugar, edible glitter, and an inedible bean. Contains wheat, milk, eggs, almonds.
Gluten-Free Cinnamon: King Arthur gluten-free flour (cane sugar, whole grain brown rice flour, potato starch, modified tapioca starch, cellulose, baking powder, salt, reduced iron, thiamin hydrochloride (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2)], natural flavor, xanthan gum, nutmeg), canola oil, milk, eggs, brown sugar, cinnamon, powdered sugar, vanilla, edible glitter, and an inedible bean. Contains milk, eggs. NOTE: This cake is produced in a facility that uses wheat products.
Dubai Chocolate: wheat flour, water, oil, milk, eggs, sugar, yeast, salt, pistachios, white chocolate, sugar, heavy cream, bittersweet chocolate, vanilla, edible glitter, and an inedible bean. Contains wheat, milk, eggs.
Chef Emeril Lagasse's Banana Cream Pie King Cake: Ingredients being finalized, please check back soon.
Chef Frank Brigtsen's Strawberry Tres Leches King Cake: Ingredients being finalized, please check back soon.
The Goddess: Wheat flour, water, oil, milk, eggs, sugar, yeast, salt, goat cheese, cream cheese, goat milk, fig jam, orange, walnuts, thyme, and an inedible bean. Contains: wheat, milk, eggs, nuts.
ONE OTHER THING
Proceeds from king cake sales support NOCCA's Culinary Arts department and Louisiana's next generation of chefs. This one-of-a-kind fundraising program is overseen by the NOCCA Foundation, NOCCA's nonprofit partner. Thanks for your support!
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?
Send your questions or comments by...
email: marketplace@noccafoundation.org
phone: 504-606-9903 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm)
snail mail: 2800 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA 70117
