The mania for Guinness-record size food concoctions seems to have no end. Here’s another:
What do you get when you put together 20 French pastry chefs, 150 kilos of sugar, 415 kilos of cream, 350 kilos of strawberries, 4,000 eggs and a blowtorch? The answer is a 121.8-meter long strawberry cake, which beat the previous record by about 20 meters.
What do you do when you have completed your 1.2 tonne cake? You lay it out on tables at a sports hall in Argenteuil, a Paris suburb, and give slices away to local residents. By the way, if each slice were, as is typical, about 100 grams, that’s 12,000 slices to give away before it goes stale, which might not be long because it took a week to make it.
The effort was led by Youssef El Gatou, who says that he’s always wanted to set a record. “I was looking for a product, or a French pastry, and I also wanted to highlight farm produce, so French strawberries and products like milk, cream and butter,” he told AFP. While Gatou beat an Italian record for strawberry cake, Italians still hold the record for the longest-ever baguette, at 132.6 meters.
Oh… the blowtorch… it was used to heat bowls for the cream.
