On July 5, London will host a giant cake picnic with approximately 500 cakes, offering attendees bottomless slices. The event, organized by Cake Picnic, will feature multiple two-hour sessions throughout the day. Tickets, priced at $50 (£38), have sold out, but a waitlist is available on the event website.
The exact location is disclosed only to ticket holders upon purchase. Attendees must bring a cake—minimum eight inches wide and three inches tall—to gain entry. This is the second Cake Picnic in the UK, following a sell-out event in Greenwich Park in 2025. Organizer Elisa Sunga expects around 500 participants.
Origin and Global Expansion
Elisa Sunga, a 35-year-old former Google employee from San Francisco, started Cake Picnic after craving cake in a park. She posted the idea on Instagram, and it quickly went viral. The first event drew 183 people. Since then, Cake Picnic has expanded globally, with a 2026 tour including Mexico City, Melbourne, San Diego, New York, and Los Angeles. Sunga co-founded the event with her boyfriend, Danny Knight.
“I assumed I’d get at least five cakes; I had no idea that there’d be hundreds!” Sunga told Metro. She recalled refreshing the page as interest grew from 50 to 300 people.
Food Safety and Rules
Addressing food safety concerns, Sunga emphasized that no food poisoning issues have occurred. “We do encourage people to bring their best cake, and we share instructions on how to bake safely and how to safely transport cake too,” she explained. The event website states: “Please only bring cakes that you are absolutely excited about and would be proud to share with others.”
Popular cake flavors include ube, black sesame, pistachio, and passion fruit. Attendees receive a cake box to fill with slices. “If those flavours are on the table, they’ll be gone very quickly,” Sunga said.
Future UK Plans
Sunga hopes to bring Cake Picnic back to London soon and expand to other UK cities. “I really want to do more events in the UK. We did an Australia tour this year, and it was so fun to visit several cities there and see the differences in cake,” she said. “I’ve found that British people really love cake and have such a passion for it, so I think we could definitely do a multi-city tour in the UK at some point, visiting London and another city like Manchester or Bristol.”
Sunga recently released a cookbook inspired by bakes from the events, featuring recipes like Sour Cherry & Pistachio Buttermilk Cake and Chocolate & Earl Grey Whipped Cream Cake. She began baking during the pandemic in March 2020. “I’m still so surprised by how much of a phenomenon Cake Picnic has been. It’s unbelievable,” she said. “There are moments when I just pinch myself, like, what do you mean this girl is touring the world because she wants to eat cake?!”
