This past March, over 1,000 people gathered on the lawn of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor art museum for a picnic. Specifically, a cake picnic—and that was the event’s actual entry policy. No shirt, no shoes, no problem. No cake? No entry. Turns out, the event might actually make its way to Los Angeles.
Though a specific date hasn’t officially been announced, the event just listed Los Angeles as a touring city on its website right here so we imagine that more details will soon be forthcoming.
Organizer and home baker Elisa Sunga encourages interested parties to RSVP on the Cake Picnic website. When a date, time and location have been secured, guests will be sent a ticket purchase link. Sunga is up-front in saying that, due to the popularity of the events, all RSVPs do not guarantee admission.
Cake Picnic is exactly what it sounds like, a touring cake festival celebrating the many different varieties of the confection. Tickets are only $15 a pop, and the cost of the cake you brought.
Sunga started the extravaganza only last year as a humble cake swap, gathering with friends and tasting what everyone literally brought to the table.
“In my earliest daydreams of this event, it was a small and intimate picnic of maybe 15 new friends forming a circle at Golden Gate Park,” she says on Cake Picnic’s official website.
After posting her first event on the Partiful invite app, she got a greater return than anticipated. Since then she has taken her cakewalk on the road and will soon take over London, New York and San Francisco (again).
She’s also taking a poll in cities including Austin, Chicago, Mexico City and Paris to see if there’s any interest.
Cut to the spread at the Legion of Honor art museum last month, where rows of tables donning white tablecloths are set up all to be topped with cake stands featuring spongecakes, funfetti, chocolate mousses, butter cakes, upside-down cakes and elaborate multi-tiered beauties. As with all Instagrammable activities, the phones ate the 1,387 cakes first before guests went ham on the sugary buffet, filling their pastry boxes to their heart’s content.