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South China Morning Post
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Chefs in France make record breaking strawberry cake
Using 4,000 eggs and a truckload of sugar and cream, pastry chefs in France made a 121.8 metre-long strawberry cake. They claim it is the longest strawberry cake ever made. Moroccan pastry chef Youssef El Gatou led a team of 20 chefs to make the masterpiece. It weighed 1.2 metric tonnes and took one week to complete. It was set out on tables in an ice rink in the Parisian town of Argenteuil. This cake is longer than a 100.48 metre-long strawberry cake made in 2019 in Italy. El Gatou's cake used 350kg of strawberries, 150kg of sugar and 415kg of cream.
South China Morning Post
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
20 chefs use 4,000 eggs to create record breaking 121 metre-long cake
Using 4,000 eggs and a truckload of sugar and cream, pastry chefs in France made a 121.8-metre-long strawberry cake. They claim it is the longest strawberry cake ever made. Moroccan pastry chef Youssef El Gatou led a team of 20 chefs to make the masterpiece. It weighed 1.2 metric tonnes and took one week to complete. It was set out on tables in an ice rink in the Parisian town of Argenteuil. This cake is longer than a 100.48-metre-long strawberry cake made in 2019 in Italy. El Gatou's cake used 350kg of strawberries, 150kg of sugar and 415kg of cream. The cake had to be at least 8cm wide and 8cm tall to beat the world record. The team used blowtorches to heat a bowl used to mix the cream, said the chef's wife, Nadia El Gatou. Answer: 100.48 metres
