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Page last updated at 11:27 GMT, Tuesday, 23 December 2008

India seeks tallest cake record

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An Indian bakery has attempted to break a world record by making a cake 32ft (9.75m) tall to celebrate Christmas.

The cake was made by a bakery in the city of Kochi (Cochin) in the southern Indian state of Kerala, and was supported by iron pipes and wooden planks in an effort to make it stable.

Organiser Jayachandran Pillai told reporters that the cake took 15 days to make and weighed over 550kg.

"We planned to make this Christmas season something different [and] therefore, we planned to make an amazing cake.

"We searched on the internet and we got information about a cake of 30ft height. So we planned to make a cake 32ft high to make the record.

"We made this cake and right now it is a grand success and we got [a] very good response from the public," Mr Pillai said.

The cake is on display until Christmas Eve, and will then be cut and distributed to orphans across the city. There was no confirmation of whether the bakers officially broke a world record.

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