WORLD'S LONGEST LAMINGTON IN ADELAIDE AUSTRALIA
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| World's longest lamington in Adelaide, Australia.. |
20,000 lamingtons went into creating the world's longest line of cakes at the Adelaide Convention Centre.
The world record for the longest line of cakes has been set in Adelaide, with more than a kilometre of the most iconic of Australian cakes, the lamington, taking the crown.
As part of celebrations for the opening of the new wing of the Adelaide Convention Centre, 20,000 pieces of lamington snaked its way through the ballroom, meeting rooms and foyers and into the new western building.
Once ratified by the Guinness Book of Records, Adelaide will take the title from England, with an official measurement of 1073.869 metres, compared to the previous record of 885m.
Adelaide Convention Centre chief executive Alec Gilbert said it took a team of 150 people more than 600 hours to create the lamingtons which included more than 400 kilograms of flour, 8kg of baking powder, 330kg of milk chocolate, 4560 eggs, 5 litres of vanilla essence and 550kg of desiccated coconut.
The lamingtons were made using a recipe based on the traditional Country Women's Association recipe, Mr Gilbert said, and would now be sold to raise money for charity.
12 March 2015
WORLD RECORD LAMINGTON IN TOOWOOMBA
Largest Lamington ever produced weighing 2361kg
THERE was more than just excitement in the air when the world's biggest lamington came home to Toowoomba.
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| Celebrating their success in creating the world’s biggest lamington are (from left) Geoff McDonald, Julie Lancaster-Smith, Julian Lancaster-Smith and Brad Smith.Dave Noonan |
“I like lamingtons a bit too much,” he said.
The seven-year-old boasted he could eat 10 of the 2361kg giant lamingtons, made by the Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce and Quality Desserts, the second biggest producer of lamingtons in the country.
Quality Desserts managing director Julian Lancaster-Smith said the attempt certainly attracted a lot of attention.
“It's brilliant,” he said.
“We wanted the record back and we wanted to raise the profile of Toowoomba.”
Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce president Geoff McDonald said he was a bit anxious when the bottom of the lamington began to bulge.
“We had to use our heads to make sure it didn't collapse,” he said. “We took it steady for a while and then it was all hands on deck.”
The world's biggest lamington weighed in at 2361kg and was the equivalent to 45,000 normal sized lamingtons.
11 June 2011
IPSWICH CLAIMS WORLD LAMINGTON RECORD
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| Seven years' old James Tully from St Augustine's College at Augustine Heights in Ipswich about to savour the delights of the world's largest lamington. |
Ipswich has won the title for the largest lamington in the world.
The monster lamington weighed in this morning at the Ipswich Turf Club at a whopping 1.32 tonnes, eclipsing the previous one tonne record set in Melbourne in 2005.
The super-sized lamington is equivalent to 20,894 standard lamingtons.
The giant lamington, named after Lord Lamington Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, was made from 230 litres of water, 200 litres of eggs, 535 kg of sponge mix, plus 68kg of desiccated coconut, 75kg of jam, and 150 kg of chocolate lamington mix.
The unveiling of the lamington was witnessed by Lord Lamington's great grandchildren Alex Scrimgeour and Belinda Leigh who had travelled from the UK for the event.
Celebrity chef Ipswich Councillor Paul Tully said the gigantic lamington was a work of art which had taken three days to prepare.
"This record will be difficult to break given the culinary dexterity needed to put this giant lamington together," Cr Tully said.
The creator of the Australian icon Lord Lamington once described them as "those bloody poofy woolly biscuits".
21 July 2009
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