New King Cake Hub offers online shopping, cake-of-the-week club

Among the king cakes that can be pre-ordered Thursday will be the Epiphany king cake, a crepes du leche king cake from Gambino’s, which is an exclusive flavor made for the King Cake Hub, Samuels said.

Also available for pre-order is the King Cake Coterie, which is a king-cake-of-the-week club. For $300, cake lovers can sign up to receive a “special exclusive king cake” for nine Tuesdays, from Jan. 6 to Feb. 26. Find the full list of included cakes at the website.

“The bakeries are making these cakes exclusively for us,” Samuels said. “They won’t have it their shops.”

Along with regular vendors, the Coterie will include king cakes from Balestra’s grocery in Belle Chasse, Second Harvest Food Bank and chef Lisa Barbato from the now-shuttered Rivista Bakery.

“I said, ‘I’m going to guarantee 200 of these. Here is your date’ and it’s up to them to be as creative as they want to be,” he said.

“We’re only selling 200 memberships until Dec. 31, but we imagine it will sell out before then,” Samuels said.

If the cake-of-the-week club does sell out, Samuels is prepared to do a second offering with a different menu of cakes.

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