Have Your Cake and Learn Too: Top 7 Fun Facts About Cake You Never Knew!

1. Royal Wedding Cake Extravaganza

You know what they say, a royal wedding cake isn't truly fit for a Queen until it's a 500-pound sweet behemoth that could cater to an entire kingdom: Case in point - the titanic cake that graced the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1948, weighing 500 pounds and serving 2,000 slices to esteemed guests; the royal couple even saved a tier for their first child's christening. These elaborately designed confections exemplify the couple's unique flavors, as Fiona Cairns proved by baking 900 exquisite sugar-paste flowers into Prince William and Catherine Middleton's wedding cake in 2011.
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2. Record-Breaking Mega Cupcake

Quite the 'heavyweight champion' of the cupcake world that must have sent sweet tooth enthusiasts into a frosting frenzy, and bakers checking if they had enough shipping tape and bubble wrap lying around: The largest cupcake ever made weighed 1,224 pounds, was 4 feet tall by 10 feet wide, containing 2 million calories, and was crafted by GourmetGiftBaskets.com on August 15, 2009, setting a world record for the most colossal cupcake creation to grace the planet.
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3. The Great Fruitcake Toss Tradition

Forget chucking pumpkins; hurling holiday dessert is the real way to celebrate: In Manitou Springs, Colorado, they host an annual "Great Fruitcake Toss," where participants engage in a thrilling pastry-pitching competition, aiming for distance, accuracy, and balance. Winners are crowned in various age groups and even partake in a fruitcake bake-off, while the leftover flung fruitcakes find a new purpose in life by being donated to a local animal shelter to feed their furry inhabitants.
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4. Espresso Meets Cheese: Tiramisu Cake

Say "cheese" and perk up those ears, caffeine connoisseurs and dessert devotees: Tiramisu Cake is the ultimate Italian masterpiece that marries espresso flavors with creamy mascarpone cheese, frolics between layers of genoise sponge cake soaked in boozy coffee syrup, and tantalizes taste buds with airy whipped cream frosting dusted in cocoa powder.
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5. Hungarian Dobos Torte Attack

Ahoy me hearties, fancy a ‘Dobos Torte’g of war on your taste buds? Prepare to be boarded by a Hungarian masterpiece that'll send your sweet tooth to choco-heaven: Invented by Jozsef C. Dobos in 1884, the Dobos Torte is a luxurious and elegant cake featuring seven delicate layers of sponge with rich chocolate buttercream filling, crowned by a caramel topping, and sometimes even sporting a scrumptious armor of ground hazelnuts, chestnuts, walnuts, or almonds!
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6. Boston Cream Pie's Sweet Disguise

In a classic case of mistaken identity: the Boston cream pie is actually a cake masquerading as a pie! Disguised with 19th-century pie pans and armed with a luscious custard center, this undercover dessert won over the taste buds of Massachusetts, securing its title as the official state dessert in 1996. Now, its partner in crime, the Boston cream donut, also proudly wears the label of the state's official donut since 2003.
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7. Birth of the Bundt Cake Craze

When the going gets Bundt, the Bundt gets going: The name "Bundt" was created by Dave Dalquist, who designed the ring-shaped cake pan inspired by the German bundkuchen, and the pan rose to fame after a 1966 Pillsbury Bake-Off contestant made a Tunnel of Fudge cake with it, leading to an avalanche of interest and the eventual creation of boxed Bundt cake mixes.
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