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Chef Lynn Mansel decorates one of the layers of the seven-tier wedding cake.
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HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- You can have your cake and eat it too.
That's what pastry chefs at the Mohegan Sun casino are out to prove.
They are building what they hope will be the world's largest wedding cake. The seven-tier cake weighs more than 14,000 pounds and measures about 17-feet tall, and is making its debut at the American Indian casino in Uncasville on Sunday.
"It just keeps going up," executive pastry chef Lynn Mansel said. "I still can't believe we did it."
Mansel is hoping to top the Guinness Book world record set by a 5,334 pound cake baked in June 2003 at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.
Mansel and his crew began assembling the massive white cake last Sunday. The top ingredients include 10,000 pounds of cake batter and 4,810 pounds of frosting, he said. The cake rests on a gigantic scale for measuring purposes, and each tier is separated by steel discs.
"I had to think a lot," Mansel said of the design. "I had to think of all the wedding cakes I've already done and then multiply that by 100."
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