Saturday,
April 24, 2010
Largest
baby grand piano cake - Confection Bakery sets world
record
KALAMAZOO, Mich., USA -- Workers from Confection
Bakery
(owner Giti Henri)
made a 300 lbs. cake
to look like a baby grand piano, using 200 lbs. of sugar,
17 lbs. of shortening, and ten pounds of icing and 183 hours
of labor , setting the world record for the Largest
baby grand piano cake
. 
Photo: Brian Hill, general manager of
the CityScape event center, arranges the display around the world's
largest baby-grand-piano cake
made by the bakery Confection.
Photo by Mark Bugnaski / Kalamazoo Gazette ( enlarge
photo
)
Workers from Confection
Bakery
spent part of the morning hauling the 300 lbs.
cake across the Kalamazoo Mall. Once in place in the upstairs
lobby of CityScape, the cake could be smelled from 30 feet
away.
The World's
Largest
baby grand piano cake
was designed from an image created
by Carol Derks that’s on the cover of the Gilmore program
booklet.
The largest
baby grand piano cake in the world
was transported
in pieces that weighed a total of about 300 pounds, including
wooden legs and base and sculpted Styrofoam to support the
cake. About 125 pounds was chocolate cake, and the main section
was moved on a piano dolly.
The World's
Largest
baby grand piano cake
was made to commemorate
the Gilmore Keyboard Festival.
"They
have a baby grand piano that is in their lobby that is just
gorgeous, and we wanted to emulate that and tie in some of
the logo elements to their brochure and their website of the
cake design," says Giti Henri
, owner of the Confection
Bakery
.
"That's what we did, and that's how we ended
up with a cake that's four feet wide, by six feet long, and
five feet high."
It took workers at the Confection
Bakery
21 days of planning and 183 hours of labor
to make and decorate the World's
Largest
baby grand piano cake
.
The cake was the largest job ever for Confection
Bakery
. “It allowed us to realize we had the ability
to do other, even larger, projects,” Jud Henrie said.
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Saturday,
April 24, 2010
