nosh nook #91 - monday, july 20, 2009

150-pound fudge-filled cupcake sets world record in minn. (link)
07.18.09 - usa today

take note, lovers of the largely overblown cupcake fad! if you've been feeling a bit down lately about the way that bacon has swooped in & stolen the trendy spotlight from your beloved cupcake, there's once again reason to hold your head high as this weekend, the cupcake stepped up its game & reasserted its fad food dominance in a largely overblown way.

according to usa today (america's source for colorful pie charts & awfully succinctly summarized new articles), this saturday, cakes.com unveiled a 151-pound fudge-filled cupcake at minnesota's disgustingly huge mall of america & in doing so, set the guinness record for the world's largest cupcake. the cupcake "weighed in at nearly 151 pounds, including 15 pounds of fudge filling and 60 pounds of yellow icing. it was one foot tall and two feet wide." finally, scientific advancements have made it possible to bake a cupcake that outweighs me.

in summary: "the world's largest cake-decoration supplier and marketer" (cakes.com) created the world's largest cupcake & unveiled it in the country's largest shopping mall. it's like a trifecta of gluttony! unfortunately for mall goers, since the cupcake was so large that only the top layer had frosting on it, none of them got to partake in its sweet opulence. instead, cakes.com gave away thousands of free cupcakes. who got to eat the world's largest cupcake? residents of a local soup kitchen? nope. it was "sent to a pig farm whose snouty residents specialize in the disposal of edible garbage." how amazingly appropriate...so much for feeding the hungry.