What Was the Largest Cake Ever Baked?

If you have a sweet tooth, you should have been in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1976 celebration of America's Bicentennial.

In honor of the event, bakers put together a cake that weighed more than 70,000 pounds. The huge dessert — the largest cake ever baked — contained some 120,000 eggs and more than 20,000 pounds of sugar!

If you prefer pie, then the place to be was Orleans County, New York, in 1977. Visitors to a county fair were treated to a 21,000-pound apple pie measuring more than 161/2 feet across, containing 300 bushels of apples!

And if you favor cherry pie, then you would have loved a pie baked in Michigan in 1976, over 14 feet across and weighing more than 14,000 pounds — including almost 5,000 pounds of cherries!