Oh, as it turned out, Carvel was able to make the world's largest ice cream cake yesterday in Union Square during their 70th anniversary celebration. Their corporate website announces:
Carvel Corporation, the nations first retail ice cream franchise, built the worlds largest ice cream cake today, breaking the worlds previous record, according to Keely Hopkins, official representation of The Guinness Book of World Records. Weighing in at 12,096 pounds, the cake took 75 minutes and 54 people to build and assemble. It was 19 ft long, nine ft wide, and two feet high. For this engineering feat, Carvel created ice cream sheet cakes at a temperature of minus 120 degrees, and maintained in a freezer truck at minus 20 degrees. A trial run was held in Jessup, Maryland two weeks ago to ensure success.
The website also mentions how Carvel has become iconic in American pop culture, citing its products at Kelly Ripa's baby shower, being a gift from Homer to Marge on The Simpsons, and the inspiration for a Beastie Boys song. But Gothamist is more interested in how the Fudgie the Whale character standing in front of the cake looks like Mr. Hanky.
More pictures at Carvel and Gothamist on the promotional stunt yesterday.
