Austin, TXKing Cake

Walton's Fancy and Staple on West Sixth Street sells king cake for Carnival, the season that runs from Twelfth Night to Fat Tuesday, and takes orders through Fat Tuesday. The flavors go well past the classic: cream cheese, strawberry, lemon cream, chocolate, pecan praline and cinnamon. Order the pecan praline or the cinnamon.

King cake season runs from Twelfth Night to Fat Tuesday, and in the weeks before Fat Tuesday Easy Tiger, the bake shop and beer garden on South Lamar, turns its pain au lait dough into king cake. The cake is filled with cinnamon sugar and finished in Mardi Gras colors, and a tiny tiger figurine is hidden inside each one. Cakes sell in limited numbers, in the shop or by online preorder. Order the cinnamon sugar king cake.

Stuffed Cajun Meat Market is a Cajun market on Ranch Road 620 that sells king cake in two sizes, a mini and a regular cake that cuts into sixteen slices or more. Either one can be stuffed with Bavarian cream, cherry or lemon, and every cake is covered in cream cheese icing, colored sugars and beads. King cake season runs from Twelfth Night to Fat Tuesday. Order the regular cake stuffed with Bavarian cream.

Sugar Mama's Bakeshop on South First Street offers a king cake for Mardi Gras, the season that runs from Twelfth Night to Fat Tuesday, and sells it through Fat Tuesday. There are two fillings to choose from, praline cream or chocolate cinnamon cream cheese. Order the praline cream.

Lil' Easy is a Cajun restaurant and bar on East Cesar Chavez Street, and for Carnival, the season from Twelfth Night to Fat Tuesday, it sells a traditional New Orleans cinnamon cream cheese king cake. A whole cake serves about eighteen, and slices sell in the restaurant too. Order the whole cinnamon cream cheese king cake, or a slice to start.