04/01/2025
S.F. museum’s cake picnic satisfies craving with nearly 1,400 concoctions!!!!
They came from San Francisco; they came from Oakland; they came from New York and Seattle. And each and every one of them brought a cake.
A total of 613 cakes, to be exact.
At Cake Picnic, there was but one cardinal rule: "No cake, no entry."
Like a fever dream of cake goodness, hundreds of bakers converged at San Francisco's Legion of Honor museum.
On a sunny, crisp and glorious fall day in the far northwest corner of San Francisco, Sunga was surrounded by proud bakers, happy onlookers and many, many cakes.
There is only one requirement: That you bring a whole cake. You can buy it at the store or make it yourself. But you have to bring a cake.
The scene was like something out of a children's book: Dozens of long tables adorned with cake upon cake upon delicious, majestic, enticing cake. Layer cakes, bundt cakes, square cakes, 4-foot-long cakes, birthday cakes, tiered cakes, tortes, wedding cakes, slumping cakes and cupcakes. It was a cake potluck Or a cake heaven, cake nirvana, cake buffet. Call it whatever you want to call it – I call it a cake picnic,"