A Doughnut Wedding Cake
These days, I do a lot of thinking about wedding cakes and a lot of research as well. The other day as I was online researching the subject, I came across something that sparked something in my memory. It was a doughnut wedding cake. And then I remembered hearing about someone who started out recently trying to build the world’s largest doughnut wedding cake (Okay, seriously, are there that many doughnut wedding cakes? Apparently so, since Guinness Book of World Records has a category for it). So I tracked down this person and spoke with her on the phone about the event.
Her name is Carin Freedel, chief executive officer of Mitzvah Mavens, which hosted the event in November, 2004. “Doughnut cakes are popular now,” she told me. “A ‘doughnut cake’ is really just a pile of doughnuts. For weddings, the pile can be frosted, decorated and organized into tiers like a traditional cake.”
Freedel said that going for a world record was “just one of those ideas.” Freedel arranged for Krispy Kreme to sponsor the event and provide the doughnuts (all Original Glazed). Christiann Thomas, 26, who teaches high school in Fife, did most of the heavy lifting on the cake, starting with a base of 170 doughnuts.
To certify the doughnut cake’s size, Diane Rise, a weights-and-measures inspector from the state Department of Agriculture, was contacted. By the numbers, the cake was 5 foot 3 inches, comprising 1818 doughnuts. Calorie count? Nearly 364,000.
At one point, the doughnut pile started to fall. Onlookers fretted. “We had to take off about five layers” and rebuild, Freedel said. “It’s a pretty light … doughnut; … That’s why we had that compression.”
While the cake may well establish a Guinness World Record for unsupported wedding cakes made out of doughnuts, it would not be the largest wedding cake. Chefs at the Mohegan Sun Hotel and Casino in Uncasville, Conn., baked a 15,032-pound wedding cake in February, 2004.