The world's longest ever Christmas cake - a 1km-long vanilla flavoured log with a bitter chocolate cover - has been created by 80 cooks in China....

The cake, measuring exactly 1,068 metres (3,504 feet), was created at the Pudong Shangri-la Hote.
The busy chefs designed baked and sweetened the cake across a period of seven days.
A staggering 904 organic eggs, 1045kg (2,304 pounds) of flour, 209kg (461 pounds) of sugar, 401kg (884 pounds) of bitter chocolate and an impressive 34 kilograms (75 pounds) of Tahitian vanilla were all mixed together to create the one-of-a-kind dessert.
'We make the sponge, we bake and then, when it's cooled down, we make our vanilla cream, which is inside, we roll it up, and we make our very secret recipe of chocolate frosting,' explained pastry chef Yusuf Yaran.
'We put it all over the cake, and then we have our candy decorations and some icing sugar on the top.'
The final presentation saw 150 staff put the finished touches to the cake, helping to place it out on 156 tables during an intense 24-hour period.
Initially the team of cooks aimed to create a cake at a length of 888 metres (2,913 feet), but only upon the cake being measured did they realise the scale of their achievement.
After celebrating the success of the long cake, the hotel began to slice it to sell to the public, with all proceeds going to support chemotherapy treatment of four children in Shanghai.

The previous record holders for the world's longest cake were the French with a 207 metre effort.

Source:metro