20,000 Lamingtons at Adelaide Convention Centre set new Guinness World Record

Alli Evans and Tao Finlay sample the lamingtons. 

COMBINE 400kg of flour, 8kg of baking powder, 360kg of chocolate, 220kg of sugar, 550kg of desiccated coconut, 4500 eggs and 5L of vanilla essence and what do you get?

The world’s longest lamington, of course.

On Thursday, the Adelaide Convention Centre revealed to Guinness World Records a whopping 1073m and 869cm-long line of the coconut-dusted delight, made with more than 20,000 pieces.

Tao Finlay and Alli Evans at the 980m mark.

It unofficially set a new world record for the longest line of cakes, beating the previous record of 885m, held by the English.

ACC chief executive Alec Gilbert said it would take Guinness World Records about six weeks to ratify the achievement.

With the centre’s head pastry chef Georg Delago their leader, it took 150 people 600 hours to make the cakes.

Event trainee Tao Finlay said the atmosphere at the centre was incredible. “I’m pretty proud to have been a part of it,” Ms Finlay, 18, said.

The cake was the centrepiece for The Longest Lamington Lunch, which raised funds for seven local charities.

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