11,000kg strawberry cake baked

[matcom]

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A NORTHERN Philippine town is attempting to bake itself into the Guinness Book of Records with what it claimed was the world's biggest strawberry buttercake.

La Trinidad, which calls itself the Philippines' strawberry capital, has been baking giant cakes for the last three years.

But Mayor Nestor Fongwan said the town has outdone itself this time with the giant dessert weighing 11,146 kg.

At 10 pesos (24 cents) a slice in the town hall, the massive cake was expected to feed 55,000 townspeople.

About 3000 kg of strawberries were used in baking the cake, which is 2.57 metres high and 2.65 metres wide, Fongwan said.

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