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Cake lovers, rejoice. The buzzy, Interweb-breaking Cake Picnic has returned to the Los Angeles area today — specifically at Tongva Park in Santa Monica.
What is it? Just as it sounds, Cake Picnic is a community gathering of cake lovers. There's one rule: No cake, no entry.
FOMO? The SaMo event is sold out. But LAist got a ticket.
Read on ... to check out photos and get the inside scoop from this sweet, sweet feast.
If you have ever had a craving for cake — hundreds and hundreds of different cakes — on a Saturday morning, Cake Picnic is here to satisfy your dreams.
Cake Picnic is exactly like what it sounds like — a feast of cake, cake, cake, cake, cake, as Rihanna might say. The idea came to Bay Area organizer and passionate baker Elisa Sunga about a year ago when she started a small gathering to bring friends and fellow dessert lovers together to eat as many cakes as possible.
There's just one rule: No cake, no entry.
For the inaugural picnic, Sunga hoped at least 15 people would come, but she was quickly swarmed with hundreds of RSVPs after posting about it on Instagram.
“I was really scared, I was like, ‘did I just become the joke of the internet,’” she said. “Because I was very serious about my cake requirement, but I don't know if anyone else was.”
To her surprise, 183 people came with cakes to the first San Francisco picnic in April 2024, and she said the events have continued to grow ever since.
Cake Picnic is now an official international tour, with several stops completed across Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, London and New York, and even more on the horizon.
Sunga has seen more than 4,000 cakes across the picnics, including 253 last summer in L.A. and more than 1,350 in San Francisco in March.
Today, Cake Picnic returns to the L.A. area — specifically at Tongva Park in downtown Santa Monica. A limited number of $30 tickets were up for grabs, and the event sold out in minutes.
The official cake count today, according to organizers: 483.
