Mexico creates Guinness-worthy cake for Mother's Day

by Joe DiStefano, Posted May 14th 2007 @ 9:03AM

A team of Mexican bakers made a massive, sweet gesture toward madres and abuelitas across that country last Thursday. But the only thing sweet about the 2.2 metric ton celebration of Mother's Day is the fact that it was a cake. The gigantic dessert was made entirely with zero-calorie sweetener rather than sugar.

The heart-shaped cake was 16-feet wide and fed about 150 mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. And just how much artificial sweetener does it take to make an enormous blue-and-yellow cake? A tad over 200 pounds. Of course you'll also need 23 bakers, 881 pounds of eggs, 639 pounds of whipping cream and a really big oven, among other things. The folks behind the supersized sugar-free cake want to promote artificial sweeteners in Mexico, where obesity is increasingly widespread and some 7 million people suffer from diabetes.

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Filed Under: Food Oddities, Super Size Me
Tags: artificial sweetener, cake, dessert, diabetes, mexico, Mother's Day, Mother'sDay, oddities, sugar, sugar-free, super size me

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5-14-2007 @12:29PM Dave B said... 2.2 metric tons fed 150 people? That's over 32 pounds of cake per person! If mothers and grandmothers in Mexico are routinely capable of eating that much food, I'm not sure how much putting zero-calorie sweetener in there is going to help with the obesity problem ;)
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