Adelaide Convention Centre aims to break British record, baking a 1km snake of 20,000 cakes.
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| Adelaide Convention Centre apprentice chefs Ashleigh Moore and Bella Fazzalari testing and tasting lamington recipes for the world record attempt. |
SWEET victory is in sight for one SA kitchen crew aiming break a world cake record, and knock the Brits off their champion perch.
Adelaide Convention Centre chefs are elbow deep in chocolate and coconut, making and freezing about 1000 lamingtons a day in the lead up to a March 12 world record bid for the longest line of cakes.
“And using lamingtons will put a true Aussie stamp on the record,” said Tze Khaw, who is leading the ACC team.
About 25 chefs and kitchen helpers will make 20,000 lammies to create a kilometre-long cake
which will snake its way through the ballroom, meeting rooms and foyers of the ACC’s new Western Building.
And the 1km lamington trail, which will pip the 885m Brit record, will double as table centrepieces for a major fundraiser, the Longest Lamington Lunch.
Charitable groups are invited to get involved to raise funds for their cause.
The chefs, complying with strict Guinness World Records Guidelines, estimate it will take 600 hours of work, using more than 400kg of flour, 8kg of baking powder, 360kg of milk chocolate, 220kg of sugar, 550kg of desiccated coconut, 380 dozen eggs and 5 litres of vanilla essence.
Young chef Bella Fazzalari, 20, feels like a lamington specialist.
“I doubt whether anyone else my age would have made this many lamingtons,” she said, happily on break after a serious stint of recipe testing.
“We usually make trays of 100 at a time.”
Participating charities are invited to profit from $65 tickets, offering guests a two-course lunch with drinks and a slice of the giant lamington for dessert.
Participating charities are invited to profit from $65 tickets, offering guests a two-course lunch with drinks and a slice of the giant lamington for dessert.
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