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Tue 20 May, 2003 06:21 am
100-foot, 20-ton cookie baked in N.C.
By Associated Press, 5/20/2003
FLAT ROCK, N.C. — A humongous cookie broke a world record over the weekend before a crowd of 1,500 hungry onlookers.
It took eight hours and a cookie sheet the size of a basketball court to bake the 100-foot, 20-ton chocolate chip colossus. The cookie was baked in an oven bag that released the smells of chocolate and warm, sugary dough when opened.
"It looks like a giant mud pie," said 18-year-old Sarah Fantle.
The curious crowd that braved a steady drizzle for a glimpse of the cookie Saturday soon began nibbling it down to size for $10 a slice. Ten percent of the proceeds will go toward building a craft museum.
Immaculate Baking Co. owner Scott Blackwell and a team of 70 volunteers built the cookie from 6,500 pounds of butter, 30,000 whole eggs and 5,000 pounds of sugar.
Jonathan Collins, a representative of the former record holder, Cookie Time of New Zealand, witnessed the event. Cookie Time set the previous record in 1996 by baking an 82-foot wide cookie.
Blackwell said the record belongs in American hands because the chocolate chip cookie is an American invention.
Boston Globe Online Edition
And They Worry About Oreos?
No question about it they had a monster cookie not a cookie monster.
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