Saturday, October 3, 2009


Largest Cupcake-Big Top Cupcake sets world record

 BOCA RATON, Fla., USA -- Global TV Concepts and Big Top Cupcake comisioned the Boca Raton bakery Passion for Pastry to cook a 1,500-lb. chocolate cupcake which sets the new world record for the   Largest Chocolate Cupcake .

 Photo: The Largest Cupcake is 4-1/2 feet high, 6 feet wide, topped with pink icing, handmade 5-inch sprinkles, and a cherry that’s 12 inches around. ( enlarge photo )

 The Largest Cupcake (brainchild of Laurie Braden, President of Global TV Concepts and the Big Top Cupcake(tm)) will be unveiled at Mizner Park Amphitheater Oct. 3 (Saturday), prior to the 7 p.m. THINK PINK ROCKS concert, starring AKON, Melanie Fiona, Shontelle, American Yard and DJ Cassidy.

The previous world record for the Largest Cupcake was set by a 150.7 pounds cupcake presented by Cakes.com.

What does it take to bake a 1,500-lb. Largest Chocolate Cupcake ?
   * 240 pounds of eggs
   * 225 pounds of sugar
   * 510 pounds of flour
   * 225 pounds of baking powder, oil, vanilla, cocoa, salt, milk and water
    * 350 pounds of icing
    * 24 hours of baking time
    * 5 bakers
    * An oven 10 feet wide x 10 feet high

     The Largest Chocolate Cupcake will be cut today and served for donations to the following beneficiaries: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; BRCH Women's Center for Breast Care; The American Cancer Society/Making Strides Against Breast Cancer; Reach Global/Jacob International; The Florida Breast Cancer Foundation; The H.O.P.E. Project; and the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

    "The Big Top Cupcake(TM) is 25 times larger than a regular cupcake. . .and the "World's Largest Chocolate Cupcake " is 1000 times larger than that.

    For more info on:
    - the Boca Raton bakery Passion for Pastry, click here ;
    - THINK PINK ROCKS, click here .
    - baking your own “giant” Big Top Cupcake at home, click here

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Largest Matzah Ball-world record set by Noah's Ark Original Deli

Largest meatball-world record set by Sony Pictures Animation

Largest prawn cocktail-world record set by SAGB

Largest Lamington-world record set in Ipswich

Largest Green Chile Cheeseburger-world record set by Peppers Cafe


Saturday, October 3, 2009

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