The world's largest cupcake.
Have you ever eaten a record breaker? Does size inevitably compromise quality, or does the sheer spectacle make up for any shortcomings?
Drum roll, please.
Word of Mouth has just witnessed, and tasted, the world's largest cupcake. Oh yes.
And boy, what a cupcake: a giant, gleeful creamy splodge comprising masses of vanilla sponge stuffed with buttercream topped with a thick wad of pink-and-white icing, sugar sprinkles and a ridiculously huge fake cherry. Kitsch, very; a little plasticy-tasting, maybe; but fun? Surely.
My favourite cupcake recipe book, Kate Shirazi's Cupcake Magic calls cupcakes "little cakes with attitude". But this cupcake is anything but little. Measuring 1.25m by 1.2m and weighing just over 150kg, containing 200 eggs and taking around 50 hours to make, it even had its own set of six foot tall, burly bodyguards surrounding it.
