With summer just around the corner, it's the time of year that has everyone craving ice cream.
Hopefully, Torontonians are craving a lot of it.
On Tuesday, the world record for the largest ice cream cake will be attempted at Yonge and Dundas Square, and there will be plenty of cake to go around. Dairy Queen is hosting the event in honour of the 30th anniversary of its ice cream cake.
Organizers hope to craft a 9,525-kilogram (21,000 lb.) cake, which would set a Guinness World Record. Currently, the record for the largest ice cream cake (shown in the photo) is held by Beijing Allied Faxi Food Co. in China, that created it in 2006 for the Beijing Children's Art Theatre. Its cake weighed in at 8,750 kg (19,290 lb.), making the goal of the Canadian attempt nearly 1,000 kg heavier.
Prior to that, the record was set by another big name in ice cream, U.S. company Carvel in 2004. Its cake weighed in at approximately 5,486 kg (12,096 lb.). For those who are wondering, the cake was not in the shape of their iconic Fudgie the Whale mascot, although he was on hand to celebrate the event as part of Carvel's 70th birthday.
According to Dairy Queen's Facebook page, the team will begin constructing the cake around 11 a.m. For those who are only interested in eating the cake, you can show up between noon and 2 p.m. for a taste of the record-setting dessert.
To satisfy inquiring minds, the cake will be Oreo flavour.
The world's biggest ice cream cake is just one of many ice cream related records that Guinness has currently approved. Just last month, a group of students at a school in Pennsylvania set the record for the world's longest ice cream dessert. They filled 150 feet of vinyl gutter with pound cake, ice cream and toppings to make it into the record books.
For those who find all the talk of giant ice cream creations tempting, there are many more frozen treat records that could yet be broken this year, including largest ice cream cone, the most expensive sundae, or the most people simultaneously licking ice cream.
(Photo: China Photos/Getty Images)
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