A rare strawberry cake was baked by 20 French pastry chefs on 24 May.
Youssef El Gatou led the baking team that successfully entered their cake in the Guinness World Record. At 1.2 tons and 121.8 meters (399 feet, eight inches) long, they had to serve the longest strawberry cake on tables set at an ice rink in the Paris suburb town of Argenteuil, Agence-France Presse (AFP) reports.
The chefs used 350 kilograms of strawberries, 150 kilos of sugar, and 415 kilos of cream to create the cake and beat the previous record of 100.48-meters long baked in the Italian town of San Mauro Torinese in 2019, according to AFP.
Meanwhile, a bakery in Kulluoba, Turkey baked a rare bread based on a very old recipe.
The bakers of Halk Ekmek used a Kavilca wheat variety, bulgur and lentils or peas to make the Kulluoba bread. Bulgur is a whole grain made from cracked wheat, most commonly durum wheat, that has been parboiled or partially cooked, dried and then ground.
“The combination of ancestral wheat flour, lentils and bulgur results in a rich, satiating, low-gluten, preservative-free bread,” said Serap Guler, the bakery’s manager, Phys.org reports.
The first Kulluoba loaves, marketed as 300-gram cakes priced at 50 Turkish lira sold out within hours, according to Phys.org.
The Kulluoba bread was a recreation of a burnt bread discovered by archeologists in excavations at a site near the central Anatolian city of Eskisehir in September 2024. The well-preserved bread was found buried under the entrance of a dwelling built around 3,300 BC, which meant that it was baked 5,325 years ago.