Yesterday, Canadian company Dairy Queen has set a new world
record by making the world’s largest ice-cream
cake in Yonge and Dundas Square, Toronto.
It took 100 people over a year to plan the event, but after 30
years and 52 million ice-cream cakes sold, this was the perfect way
to celebrate, according to Denise Hutton, vice-president of
marketing at Dairy Queen Canada. Dozens of chefs worked around the
clock using over 9,000 kg of ice-cream, 91 kg of sponge cake,
around 136 kg of icing and Oreo crumbles, to beat the former world
record, a nearly 8,000 kg ice-cream cake made by China, in
2006.
After the cake was completed and acknowledged by the Guinness
Book of Records, pieces of it were served to the crowd gathered in
Yonge and Dundas Square, with 100% of suggested donations going to
Children’s Miracle Network. “When else can eating ice cream cake
help to fund medical care, research and educational programs so
that Canadian kids have access to world-class care? It’s the best
of all worlds – a delicious treat and a great cause.” said the
charity’s Paul Lethbridge.
A staff
member cuts slices of a huge ice cream cake for onlookers free of
charge at Yonge Dundas Square in Toronto, Canada, May 10, 2011. The
Dairy Queen, a US Ice Cream Company, made an ice cream cake
weighing 10,115kg, setting the Guinness World Record for the
biggest ice cream cake ever made in the world in Toronto on
Tuesday.