One Colossal Cake
18 Nov, 2009
Posted by : BRS
To celebrate Canada Day on July 1, employees at the DQ® Canada corporate office came up with a huge idea—to build the nation’s largest cake. The massive soft-serve cake weighed in at 1,540 pounds and was made of 120 gallons of vanilla and chocolate soft serve, 264 pounds of chocolate crunch, 20 gallons of cold chocolate fudge and 14 gallons of vanilla icing! The cake was made on eight tables and was eight by ten feet in size. A total of 128 sheet cakes and 46 eight-inch round cakes were used to complete the record-breaking DQ Cake.
Planning for this gigantic cake began back in March and nearly 30 people helped out in making this feat possible. For five hours the day before, volunteers worked in a -25 degree Celsius warehouse to make the cakes. When they were finished, the product was loaded into a freezer truck and transported to a park the next day. It even arrived with a police escort!
Once at the park, it took 30 minutes to reassemble and ice the cake. Then it took another 20 minutes to serve it to the more than 600 people who showed up on that rainy day. It was sliced into 3,500 pieces and all leftovers were donated to The Salvation Army and a homeless shelter. Now what are they going to come up with for next year?
yummm
This would satisfy a fat man…
wow that is the biggest cake i have ever seen!!!……and i think next year you should make the worlds biggest blizzard!!!! that would top the cake!!
ouai un bon dessere
Actually, the world’s largest Blizzard was built in Springfield, Mass., in 2005. It weighed 8,224 lbs., was 22 feet tall, took 700 gallons of DQ soft serve and 3,000 lbs. of Oreo cookies to make.
Stacking 8″ round cakes next to a cake to make it bigger is cheating.
If I see two cakes placed next to one another I’m not like, “Wow, that’s a huge cake…” – I’m more like, “Wow, two cakes.”
What a fantastic cake……….
Thanks for your input, Jason. I’m sorry you think that using more than one cake is cheating, but I’m sure all those who took part in this great feat are proud of their accomplishment.
I want a cake like that for my next birthday…its in sept. i guess they need to start cookin’
I want some. They need to make something like that were I live!
wow.. it’s huge
Either way you look at it,,, it is still a HUGE CAKE… i think it looks neat with the 8’round cakes around the big cake… My wife runs a DQ in Iowa and we both thought it was cool…
I read a few topics. I respect your work and added blog to favorites.
Thanks for all the great comments! This is one of the DQ Canada employees that worked on this project. It was a ton of fun, a lot of work, took months of planning and we all felt a great sense of accomplishment when it was finished! Even without the round cakes, it was 10ft x 8ft and 3 layers thick. The rounds were added for ‘decoration’ more than anything! Stay tuned, because we do have something big planned for 2010…
Thanks Jennifer! We can’t wait to see what you’ve come up with for next year!