Buckingham Palace In Bangalore's Cake Exhibition

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Monday, December 22, 2008, 11:28

The 36^th annual Cake exhibition is on a full swing in Bangalore. This time however stealing the show is the 16 feet high Buckingham Palace model put on display.

The annual cake exhibition is held every year and showcases a giant cake as the main attraction, other than the variety of rich plum cakes, marzipans, chocolates, cookies, ice creams, dairy desserts and Christmas goodies.

This year however, drawing all the attention is the Buckigham Palace shaped model cake, that is created from sugar sans any external reinforcement.

"This year we have made the Buckingham Palace which is measuring 58 feet in width, 16 feet in height and 15 kilograms in weight. We have used about 8 tonnes of sugar and totally 20,000 man hours have been put in to make this model," said C. Ramachandran, Director, Nilgiri's Dairy Farm, Bangalore

Nilgiri's Cake Exhibition began on the 19th of December and attracted major crowed who love cakes, pastries and who wished to buy out of a wide varieties of cakes available at the exhibition.

The previous news maker cake models had been the Seven Wonders of the world, World Trade Centre, Eiffel Tower and Mysore Palace. The exhibition is hosted prior to Christmas and goes on till New year, it is a milestone in the saga of modern Bangalore for more than three decades.

The first exhibition was held in the year 1969 and is listed in the Limca Book of Records and would have found an entry the Guinness Almanac of World Records too but for the absence of specific category of cake exhibitions.

So make the most of the Christmas spirit this year and rush to relish your favorite baked sugary lump of pleasure. Its the New Year now!!