The massive ice cream was more than four metres tall, and
contained a tonne of ice cream - which took a whole month to
freeze.
Classic toppings like hundreds and thousands and strawberry
sauce were scattered on top of the monster cone using a catapult
- but most of it failed to stick.
Heston made an entrance arriving in a customised vintage ice
cream van as thousands of people gathered in
Gloucester Park despite occasional showers to sample the celebrity
chef's vanilla ice cream mountain.
'The existing world record is about two and a half metres and
we wanted to smash it,' he said.
'I had this quest to try to bring back the ice cream van I
remembered as a kid.
'I was going to tell all the kiddies that if your parents
tell you the noise of the ice cream van means there's no ice cream,
it's not true.'
Filmed for Heston's latest TV show, Heston's Big Idea, ice
cream company Wall's donated the 1000lb treat.
Crowds who turned out to see the spectacle were able to
sample it also, as workers carved smaller helpings off the giant
ice cream