Six months of planning and 12 hours of intense cake-making proved a rewarding exercise for four enthusiasts of Bangalore Baking Buddies on Sunday.
Their cake secured a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records 2016 place as the largest dirt pudding cake. Prepared by Poonam Ankur Shrishrimal, Danish Ali, Archana Diwan, and Nidhi Bagri in Bengaluru, the dirt pudding cake contained 50 kg of garnish, weighed 1,078 kg, and is 8 ft long, 4 ft wide and 3.5 ft high.
“Rishi Nath, adjudicator from the Guinness World Records, presented us the qualifying certificate. In four days, we will receive an official intimation from the London Guinness office,” said Ms. Poonam.
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Making the ‘sweet’ experience took 180 kg of cream, 240 kg of cream cheese, 65 kg sugar, 190 litres of milk, and 40 kg of custard powder, apart from the garnish.
“We gave the cake a garden theme. After the go ahead by the Surveyors and Officers of the Karnataka Food and Hygiene Department, and the Weights and Measures Department, the Guinness adjudicator authenticated our piece as the largest in the world,” Ms. Poonam said.
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The cake will be distributed to 17 institutions and seven government schools in the city, according to the team, had set a Limca Record for their Santa Claus eggless cake weighing 302 kg in 2014.