A bakery has created what it reckons is the UK's biggest doughnut, weighing in as much as a baby calf and containing a gut-busting 170,000 calories - the same as 740 mars bars. The one-off whopper was made under special commission by bakery Project D for a surprise 40th birthday gift.
Marc Brough decided on the birthday cake for his wife Rebecca after he ordered 1,000 doughnuts for his employees the week before. The monster doughnut measures 1.5 metres in diameter and weighs a mammoth 40kg - the same as a baby calf.
Unsurprisingly the cake is crammed with 169,342 calories - the same as 740 mars bars or 1,400 large bananas. The potential record-breaker is filled with both raspberry jam and a chocolate filling and features a seemingly endless list of toppings. Vanilla cream, chocolate icing, chocolate fudge brownies, raspberries, golden Dairy Milk chunks and swirls of caramel cream all adorn the top of the monster cake.
Birthday girl Rebecca lauded the doughnut as the best birthday cake she's received and revealed that none of it went to waste, despite its size. She claims it had to be wedged through a pair of double doors at her husband's office space business, Cubo.
Rebecca, who lives in Nottingham, said: "It was insane. It was absolutely incredible. I couldn’t believe the size of it when they brought it in.
“The doughnut was so big that they had to fully open the double doors at the Cubo office in Derby just to get it inside the room. It was the best birthday cake ever and it’s fantastic to think my birthday has probably become part of a UK record.
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“And, amazingly, none of it went to waste,” she said. “It was shared with everyone at the Cubo office and was scoffed in record time. I also saved a piece for each of my children, and they loved it."
Max Poynton, operations director for Derbyshire-based Project D, reckons the whopper cake is the UK's biggest doughnut cake by a long way.
Max said: “We’re over the moon to have been invited to play such a big part in both Rebecca’s special birthday and Cubo’s third birthday celebrations. Our design and bakery teams definitely came up trumps with Rebecca’s monster doughnut cake. As far as we can find out, it’s the UK’s biggest doughnut by a long way.”
