A cheesecake weighing more than four tons was prepared by Stavropol chefs in 2017 in honor of City Day.
The cake has a diameter of 2.8 meters and a height of 1.2 meters.
Its exact weight is 4 tons 240 kilograms.
The preparation required 1,500 kilograms of cream cheese, 761 liters of water, 562 kilograms of cookies, 520 kilograms of cream, 456 kilograms of sugar, 254 kilograms of pastry cream, 169 kilograms of butter, 50 kilograms of gelatin, 8 kilograms of salt and 5 kilograms of vanillin.
The cheesecake took 50 people 30 hours to make.
According to the chefs’ calculations, this is enough to feed 40 thousand people.
It is not surprising that the dessert was included in the Guinness Book of Records - representatives of the publication were present during its creation and recorded a new record.
The previous record holder was pastry chef Duff Goldman from Lowville, New York.
In 2013, during a cream cheese festival held in the city, he managed to bake a cheesecake with a diameter of 2.3 meters, a thickness of 75 centimeters and a weight of 3.13 tons.
This truly gigantic dessert was divided into 25 thousand portions.
