Town Seeks To Make World's Largest Strawberry Buttercake

[matcom]

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LA TRINIDAD, Philippines (AP) -- This town had its cake and ate it, too.

La Trinidad, which calls itself the Philippines' strawberry capital, was trying to bake itself into the Guinness Book of Records with what it touted was the world's biggest strawberry buttercake.

La Trinidad has been baking similar giant cakes over the last three years, but Mayor Nestor Fongwan said it outdid itself this time with a 24,572 pound behemoth.

At 18 cents a slice, it fed some 55,000 people. The cake measured 12.31 feet long, 8.68 feet wide and 8.42 feet high.

Food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corp. supplied 2,546 pounds of all-purpose flour, 44 pounds of baking powder, 1,670 bars of butter, 9,000 eggs, 87 gallons of fresh milk and 66 gallons of whipped cream.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/03/29/town_seeks_to_make_worlds_largest_strawberry_buttercake/

[demnan]

1. Just reading that

makes my butt get bigger. You should have some fat butt icons, Matcom.