Out May 19, 2026 — Chronicle Books
The Cake Picnic Cookbook
Recipes for the love of cake & friends. A cake-by-cake invitation to gather — chiffon, Russian honey, jello, butter, sponge, and the occasional savory wedge — plus the rituals that make a Cake Picnic feel like one.
$29.95
- Pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardcover
- Size
- 7.25 × 10 in
- Recipes
- 50
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- ISBN-13
- 978-1-7972-3825-8
What's inside
50 recipes drawn from Elisa Sunga's two years of touring picnics across the world. Hero cakes (the chiffons, the layer cakes, the Russian honey, the jello), the savory wedges that show up uninvited and steal the day, and the strange ones — the marble, the upside-down, the trifle — that earn their seat at the table.
Plus the rituals: how to plan one, what to bring, how to slice for a crowd, and the introduction-around-the-circle that turns strangers into friends.
From the cookbook
A Cake Picnic is not a bake sale, not a wedding, not a birthday. It is a gathering of strangers who came because they wanted to share something sweet — and who leave knowing each other's first names.