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Nicole Montague
The perfect picnicdoesexist , and it can be summed up in one tagline : No patty , no entry . Last weekend , thousands of bakers brook by this rule , each add a impulsive dulcet kickshaw to the ( gigantic ) table , with San Francisco’sLegion of Honor Art Museumserving as the idyllic backdrop .
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Founded by Eliza Sunga , the event celebrated Legion of Honor ’s exhibitWayne Thiebaud : fine art Comes from Art , inspired byThiebaud ’s iconic patty paintings . Sunga , a baker and residential district labor organizer for pastry events , began Cake Picnic in 2024 .
" In my early daydreams of this event , it was a small-scale and internal picnic of maybe 15 novel friends forming a R-2 at Golden Gate Park , " Sunga wrote on her baking blogSalted Rye . " Once we ’ve formed our circle , we would take turn introducing ourselves and what cake we brought to the picnic . I had no estimate this would draw such a crew and that everyone would share my dreaming so passionately . "
And draw a crowd it did : This class , exactly 1,387 scorched initiation were devour .
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An Inside Look at SF’s Cake Picnic 2025
It was nearly impossible to get tickets to Cake Picnic , as bright attendees reported they sold out within a undivided minute . If you were lucky enough to snag one , that did n’t of necessity secure your admittance — every individual attendee practice to bringing a patty to share , whether they made it from scratch or got it from their favorite bakery . And of course , multitude got creative .
table were filled to the brim with cake of all bod , colors , and flavors , dot the museum ’s lush lawn on a sunny Saturday morning . No cake was left out of the picture — from elaborated multi - layer concoctions to classic sheet cakes . Here are some of the most innovative flavors and designs we recognize onCake Picnic ’s Instagram(which is just as bingeable as the cakes themselves ):
The only downside was that it was impossible for meeter to sample every single one — they had only six minutes to fill a box with as many slice they could check .
" CAKE PICNIC bring communities and ally together for the lone purpose of break bar and enjoying the follow butter and sugar high gear , " Sunga ’s blog record . " To be surrounded by as many cakes as there are homo is definitely something particular , right ? It is a moment in meter where we come together for something truly mellisonant . It is a feast for the long time and you just have to be there . "
The Tomato Cake That Left No Crumbs
One particular bar gained a whole lot of attending on social media ( and sparked intrigue among our editor ) . Hidden in the mouthwatering selection was one not - so - sweetened treat that viewers are sinking their tooth into : a tomato cake .
The internet ab initio was n’t so sure about this one . Its vibrant orange , cerise , and yellow ice was beautifully adorn with tiny vine Lycopersicon esculentum , creating a vision of a sweetsummer garden . The coming into court wowed societal media , but commenters expressed business concern over the taste . Tomatoes may be a fruit , but that does n’t entail they belong in a cake … right ?
The Maker of the video revealed that it was indeed a savory cake . More specifically , it ’s a scallion " pan - cake , " made by food bloggerSohn Taste . The caption of the telecasting spills all the secret ingredients : top withcream Malva sylvestris frostingand filled with chili nappy , pickled jalapeño , creme fraiche , and overlap cheong ( or Taiwanese sausage balloon ) .
The TV does n’t show the Department of the Interior , but from the verbal description , it seems as though the cake was made to taste like savory leek pancakes , sport layer of the filling . While the top of the patty is certainly a study of art , it also sounds like it try out as good as it count .
Maybe the love apple patty will slip the show again at forthcoming Cake Picnic event ( you may currently join the waitlist for Los Angeles , New York , and London onelisasunga.com)—but in the meantime , we can only trust the bar ’s God Almighty graces us with the official formula .
