Left room for dessert? Giant Tiramisu makes a world record
Posted: 04 November '09 by Kelly
Tiramisu world record
Chef’s rustled up the world’s biggest tiramisu at a food festival in France on Friday 30 October 2009. The dessert was assembled in an ice rink set up specifically to keep the tiramisu chilled at the fair in Villeurbanne near Lyon.
A dozen chefs worked through the night on the dessert, whipping together buckets or eggs, cream, sugar and cocoa into a tonne of the finger-licking Italian treat.
Weighing in at 1,075.92 kilograms (2,367 pounds) the giant Tiramisu was logged as a new Guinness world record. The recipe used up 300 kilos of mascarpone, 60 kilos of cream, 192 of sugar, 180 of boudoir biscuits, 4.8 of cocoa powder and 12 kilos of chocolate. Chefs also cracked in 72 kilos of egg yolks and 108 of whites – the equivalent of 4,000 eggs, as well as 120 liters of water, 9.12 of coffee and 18 litres of marsala wine.
The French tiramisu will be dished up and sold for charity, and takes over the previous record held by Switzerland for a 782.4 kilo dessert.
Other information:
Tiramisu is an Italian dessert and means “pick me up”.
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