May Microbakery

Very online “food people” might know Sasha Piligian better as @sashimi1, but May Microbakery is the formal name of her small Glendale takeout business, which the former Sqirl pastry chef started in 2020. Piligian’s most famous creations are May Microbakery’s Instagram-ready whole buttercream cakes topped with flowers and fruit, which are, most importantly, extremely delicious. Cost-wise, however, newcomers might prefer the Whatever Sasha Wants pastry box, which Pilgian has also sold at pop-ups around town, including ones at Culver City’s Platform and Chinatown’s Sesame Dinette. While we love the passionfruit vanilla white chocolate topped with seeds, we also recommend the wonderful seasonal fruit-topped blondies, the Armenian pastry-inspired nazooks and practically everything else we can get our hands on.