New Orleans’s Best Cake Shops

A cake from Mae’s Bakeshop, one of New Orleans’s best new cake shops. | Mae’s Bakeshop

Celebrate (anything) at home with cake from one of these sweet bakeries

Multi-layered, buttercream-filled, generously iced, and fancifully decorated cakes are a must for birthdays, graduations, holidays, and anniversaries, but one doesn’t need a reason for cake, really. From chic new bakeshops with a modern tilt to charming, decades-old New Orleans classics, here are the best cake shops in town for a slice worth celebrating. The sky’s the limit when it comes to cake — because if leftover cake for breakfast isn’t something to smile about, what is?