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

   Related world records:
   Largest Scone-world record set by the Chilterns Gateway Centre  

  Longest restaurant table-world record set in El Campello

  Largest bowl of porridge-world record set by Mornflake Oats

  Largest Kebbe Dish-world record set by the Maydan Institute

  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