The cake also used 350 kilograms (kg) of strawberries, 150 kg of sugar and 415 kg of cream (Photos Courtesy: AFP)
Youssef El Gatou brought together 20 chefs to make the 1.2 tonne masterpiece that took a week to complete and was set out on tables in an ice rink in the Paris suburb town of Argenteuil for residents to inspect
The effort overtook a 100.48m (329 ft 7 in) long strawberry cake made in the Italian town of San Mauro Torinese in 2019
To claim the record in the Guinness book, the cake had to be at least eight centimetres wide and eight centimetres tall
El Gatou said that since a child, he had wanted to set a record. "I was looking for a product, or a French pastry, and I also wanted to highlight farm produce, so French strawberries and products like milk, cream and butter," he told AFP
Residents of Argenteuil who went to see the calorie packed record-breaker on Wednesday, April 23, were given a piece to take away
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