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	150-pound Minn. cupcake sets Guinness record

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7-20-2009 4:41 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b5020cd4-7130-4690-9ddc-097d74b64580/BD8C3483-5DA7-47EC-85B2-20AC5CDA2AE9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake_5" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake_5" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake_5"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/A3F371BA-A1C6-402D-8B84-40407F5C63D3" alt="In this photo provided by cakes.com, pastry chef JodiLee Knops celebrates" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake_5"><P>MINNEAPOLIS – A 151-pound cupcake in <SPAN id="lw_1248024491_0" class="yshortcuts">Minneapolis</SPAN> has been certified as the world's largest. The 1-foot tall, 2-foot wide cupcake on display Saturday at the Minneapolis <SPAN id="lw_1248024491_1" class="yshortcuts">Mall of America</SPAN> had 15 pounds of fudge filling and 60 pounds of yellow icing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake_5"><P><SPAN id="lw_1248024491_2" class="yshortcuts">Guinness World Records adjudicator</SPAN> Danny Girton Jr. called it a "fun and creative achievement."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake_5"><P>The cupcake was made by <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_fe_st/storytext/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake/32760528/SIG=10iv6rpuj/*http://cakes.com"><SPAN id="lw_1248024491_3" class="yshortcuts">cakes.com</SPAN></A>, which is run by cake-decoration supplier and marketer DecoPac.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake_5"><P>Company spokeswoman <SPAN id="lw_1248024491_4" class="yshortcuts">Jamie Miller</SPAN> said the giant cupcake will go to a <SPAN id="lw_1248024491_5" class="yshortcuts">pig farm</SPAN>. The company decided against giving away pieces to mall patrons because most would not have had frosting.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake_5"><P>Instead, cakes.com gave away 4,000 smaller cupcakes.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BD8C3483-5DA7-47EC-85B2-20AC5CDA2AE9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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