A 15,008-pound cheesecake was the subject of a successful effort to set a Guinness World Record during the annual Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville, New York.
At the festival in 2013, the Kraft-Heinz facility in Lowville held the record for the largest cheesecake in the world. However, in 2017, a team from Russia beat them with a cheesecake weighing 9,347 pounds.
Kraft-Heinz’s quality manager, Derrick Langdon, stated that he and his group made the decision to shatter the prior record during the festival this year.
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“If you’re going to beat it, might as well go big,” Langdon stated to WWNY-TV. “We decided we’re going to smash that record, make it almost twice as big as the last one. If they were going to beat it, they’d have to go really big. It was go big.”
The cheesecake was unveiled in front of a Guinness World Records adjudicator, who verified its weight of 15,008 pounds—more than sufficient to reclaim the title.
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“This is just unbelievable,” Cream Cheese Festival Chair Jeremiah Papineau stated. “To have a record in 2013, and to win the record again this year, it just shows how this community comes together, and we couldn’t be more proud.”
After being sliced, the cheesecake was given to festival goers. We gave the remainder to the nearby food banks.
