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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Saturday,
October 3, 2009