The viral worldwide cake picnic tour is making a stop in Toronto

The global cake picnic tour that’s gone viral and made international headlines is planning on making a stop in Toronto soon, and there are already thousands of people on the waiting list.

The concept of a “cake picnic” originated in New York with simple rules: no cake, no entry. The picnics involve gathering together outside, each person bringing a cake and allowing everyone to sample slices of each. Now, the official picnic tours worldwide in places like San Francisco, London, Melbourne and Paris.

“CAKE PICNIC is a gathering for the love of cake. It celebrates cake in all of its forms — chiffon cakes, upside down cakes, Princess cakes, Russian honey cakes, meringue cakes, jello cakes, trifles, multi-tiered cakes, sponge cakes, butter cakes, and more,” reads a description of Cake Picnic online.

“CAKE PICNIC brings communities and friends together for the sole purpose of breaking cake and enjoying the following butter and sugar highs. To be surrounded by as many cakes as there are humans is definitely something special, right? It is a moment in time where we come together for something truly sweet. It is a feast for the ages and you just have to be there.”

The event is the brainchild of Elisa Sunga, who had a simple dream of being surrounded by friends and cakes, and being able to sample all the cakes she wanted.

“In my earliest daydreams of this event, it was a small and intimate picnic of maybe 15 new friends forming a circle at the park,” she says on the official website for Cake Picnic.

“Once we’ve formed our circle, we would take turns introducing ourselves and what cake we brought to the picnic. I had no idea this would draw such a crowd and that everyone would share my dream so passionately.”

“Zero details! No dates, times, or locations yet. I just want to get a sense for who wants a CAKE PICNIC tour stop in Toronto,” reads the official event page for the potential Toronto stop on the Cake Picnic tour.

“Join the waitlist to get text updates if and when a CAKE PICNIC tour stop is added in Toronto!”

While Sunga may just want to get a sense of who might be interested in attending the Cake Picnic on a tour stop in Toronto, there are already nearly 2,000 people on the waiting list, so it’s probably fair to say people more than want it to happen, they’re absolutely salivating for it.