Largest Ice Cream Cake

If you're craving ice cream, head to Toronto - they just broke the world record for the biggest ice cream cake - 10.13 tons. It took 14 hours, 100 volunteers, 20,000 pounds of ice cream, 200 pounds of sponge cake and over 300 pounds of icing and crumbled Oreo cookies to make the gigantic creation. Dairy Queen sponsored the making of the mega dessert in honor of the 30th anniversary of its ice cream cake. The previous  world record  for the largest ice cream cake  weighed 17,637 pounds and was set in Beijing. Dairy Queen beat the previous world record for the world's largest ice cream cake, which was set in Beijing in 2006, by nearly 500 pounds.

Denise Hutton Vice President   of Marketing Dairy Queen   Canada said that almost 30 years and   after having made  52 million cakes   posed  a serious challenge to build a 10 tonne cake . Although the challenge was tough it would result in great flow of funds for the  children’s  Miracle Network and Hospital for Sick Children.  All in all, it took nearly 100 people over a year to plan for this record attempt   and Hutton expressed tremendous happiness with the outcome.

Peter White   executive of Dairy Operations said that   they have been working round the clock  to get the cake finished and were happy to see so many  people enjoy the dairy queen treat  on a gorgeous spring day. They felt satisfying as the funds would directly support  their favourite  charitable cause.

 International Dairy Queen (IDQ), which is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., develops licenses and services a system of more than 5,700 Dairy Queen stores in the United States, Canada and other foreign countries. 
   IDQ is part of the Berkshire Hathaway family, a company owned by Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

The largest ice cream cake  weighed  10.13 tons  and contained more than 20000  pounds of ice cream  was set by Dairy Queen Canada  at Toronto, Canada on May 11, 2011.