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151-Pound Cupcake Sets Guinness Record

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MINNEAPOLIS (July 18) - A 151-pound cupcake in Minneapolis has been certified as the world's largest.
The 1-foot tall, 2-foot wide cupcake on display Saturday at the Minneapolis Mall of America had 15 pounds of fudge filling and 60 pounds of yellow icing.
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Guinness World Records adjudicator Danny Girton Jr. called it a "fun and creative achievement."
The cupcake was made by cakes.com, which is run by cake-decoration supplier and marketer DecoPac.
Company spokeswoman Jamie Miller said the giant cupcake will go to a pig farm. The company decided against giving away pieces to mall patrons because most would not have had frosting.
Instead, cakes.com gave away 4,000 smaller cupcakes.
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01:24 AMJul 22 2009

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DnCarm6

05:10 PMJul 19 2009

n8q34 -- Ha-haaa! That's what I thought! The thing must be made of lead! Or Elly May Clampett baked it. Remember the one where she baked a cake for the fair competition and the miller bought it and used it for a grindstone?

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Janeswatts75

01:06 PMJul 19 2009

And its being sent to a pig farm? After all of that hard work, it is being wasted and fed to pigs? WTF! Send it to a homeless shelter or to a food bank or something. Someone somewhere should eat that sucker (unless it is inedible). If it is inedible, then it really wouldn't be a cupcake, would it? I am with some people that have said once it reaches a certain size it becomes a cake, not a cupcake.

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RABComLink

12:58 PMJul 19 2009

At the end of this contest, Nancy Pelosi and Al Franken jump out of the cake......EWEEEEEEEEE.............

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Laurynn7

12:52 PMJul 19 2009

I still think Ace of Cakes should have gotten this when they tried to win the record...

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n8q34

12:45 PMJul 19 2009

Psyops3000 I agree. Look at the picture of the woman in the picture, like she did something really spectacular. Geeeze give mem a break.

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Psyops3000

12:37 PMJul 19 2009

This just another example to satisfy one's ortherwise dull and dreary lives with some ridiculous ego building stunt. This does not fit the definition of a cupcake, which is "a small cake of individual portion size baked in a muffin tin". Everybody has to try and do something to best someone else or get their name in print for some egotistical reasoning. Why not just be happy with who you are? Not everyone needs to be a star.

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n8q34

12:33 PMJul 19 2009

WHAT ? its only 2 foot wide and 1 foot tall and weighs 151 pounds ??? what did they do pack it with a concrete center ?

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selidororous

12:31 PMJul 19 2009

I love cupcakes - I am surrounded by them.

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GeorgetteLR

12:20 PMJul 19 2009

Actually, there was an even BIGGER cupcake baked by a Cuban bakery in Monrovia recently. That cupcake was almost as tall as the human beings which stood next to it in the photo.... and according to their website: was "nearly 7 feet tall and 8000 lbs! (see link below) It was made for an MTV reality show. The cupcake was completely edible, requiring 8000 eggs, 4000 lbs of flour . It was baked for an MTV reality show. Where does the Guinness Book get it's info from anyway????? http://www.merenguebakery.com/giantcupcakes.aspx It

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