Gran reveals plan to bake world's biggest Dorset Apple Cake - but needs one thing

A gran has asked the Daily Express to help her become a record-breaking baker - by creating a 100-strong team to cook the world's biggest Dorset Apple Cake.

 

Rose Frost, 73, lives in leafy Milbourne St Andrew, in Dorset, which has just 1,000 residents but they are hoping to make Guinness World Records by baking a six-feet square slab of the local pudding treat.

 

The creation for Dorset Day on June 1st will need at least 300 apples and more than 11 kilos of butter and 30 kilos of flour - and since all involved is using their own recipe each part of the giant cake will taste slightly different.

 

Each individual cake will be melded to the next – with lollipops to identify who made each one and whether the ingredients are veggie, vegan, low-fat or gluten free.

 

Now Rose has sent an alert out via the Daily Express for as many local budding cooks as possible to join her for the one off bake.

 

Rose said she came up with idea after she and her husband Ed took a caravan holiday in Denby Dale, in Yorkshire.

 

She explained: "The owners of the pub told us about how, in 2012, to help celebrate the Olympic Games Denby Dale decided to produce another one of its famous giant pies.

 

"An appeal went out for villagers to help bake pastry squares to cover the top of the enormous 3.8 ton pie and the organisers were overwhelmed by the response.

 

"I thought it was a brilliant idea to bring people together in a joint venture and the idea took wing.

 

"The world’s biggest cake is miles long so I know we can’t compete with that, but I think we have a good chance with the world’s biggest Dorset Apple Cake. All we need is a lot of cakes!"

 

Rose said they are aiming for 100 seven-inch squares which should give them a six-foot square cake.

She added: "At the moment we have 60 cakes lined up and I’ve already got some in the freezer.

 

"It’s a lot to ask for such a small village so we want as many people to get involved as possible. We’ll have to see how we do on the day!"

 

The cakes will all be assembled on Friday, May 31st and then sold off at a community café on the Saturday to raise funds for the village hall.

 

The world’s longest cake measured 5,300 m (17,388 ft) and was made by Bakers Association Kerala in India in 2020. It was demolished by hungry cake-lovers within 10 minutes of the record being confirmed.