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A team of bakers in Bucharest, Romania, have baked a 619-pound dessert to set a record for the world's heaviest cake. The cake, which was commissioned by officials in the Romanian capital for its annual winter festivities, was certified as the world's heaviest by a representative of Guinness World Records after a weighing ceremony Sunday, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Pieces of the mammoth dessert were distributed among the assembled crowd after the Guinness representative gave a...

A Pennsylvania man has complained a local grocery store refused to decorate a birthday cake with his young son's name: Adolf Hitler Campbell. Heath Campbell, 35, who denies the Holocaust took place and decorated his home with swastikas and Nazi paraphernalia, said The ShopRite supermarket in Greenwich Township refused to print his son's name on a cake to mark his third birthday, the Harrisburg (Pa.) Express-Times reported Monday. Campbell said the store has also refused to decorate cakes...

It need not be the season to use sugar in large quantities, a U.S.endocrinologist says. There are ways to keep the holidays sweet but healthy suggests Dr. Nicholas Jospe of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. Sugar isn't necessarily bad -- it just has to be managed, Jospe says in a statement. He suggests it is possible to resist the onslaught of sweet treats and make the holidays healthy. In fact, some traditional holiday treats -- pumpkin and sweet potatoes for...

By Jenny McNeely During my recuperation from a wisdom tooth extraction, which left me bruised, aching and really grumpy, a clever person bought me a book called Cherry Cake & Ginger Beer by Jane Brocket. It was a nostalgic stroll through the food of children's classics such as Swallows and Amazons and anything by Enid Blyton - books where the sun always shines and an adventure is just around the corner. I was subsisting on soup and mashed potato at the time so vicariously indulged in...

MOST AMUSINGLY RUDE MERCHANDISE This prize very nearly went to Alexis Dubus, who is promoting his show A Ruddy Brief History of Swearing (at Nicol Edwards on Niddry Street - it's free by the way) with badges emblazoned with the words "Shit", "Bollocks" and "C***". But he is pipped to the post by the badges for I Caught Crabs in Walberswick, Joel Horwood's theatre show at the Pleasance, pictured. Is this really something you would wear around town? If you're a Fringe performer, probably yes....

Cookie Jar Entertainment is pleased to announce the closing of its previously-announced merger transaction with DIC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (DIC). Effective immediately, DIC will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cookie Jar. The transaction propels Cookie Jar into one of the world's largest independent children's entertainment and education companies with ownership and licensing rights to some of the world's most recognizable character brands, an exceptional animation library...

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul. 3--Tres Leches Cake with Berries, Fourth of July recipes inspired by Latin chef Ingrid Hoffman. (Susan Stocker, Sun-Sentinel / July 2, 2008) Ingrid Hoffmann straddles two worlds, both in her life and her cooking. Raised in Colombia by a mother who is a Cordon Bleu-trained chef, a restaurant owner and caterer, Hoffmann learned to love the food of her homeland at an early age. But she moved to Miami where she was introduced to a...

Cookie Jar Group and DIC Entertainment are pleased to announce that Cookie Jar has entered into a definitive agreement to merge with DIC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (DIC), a leading fully-integrated global brand management company headquartered in Burbank, California. Under the terms of the agreement, Cookie Jar will pay approximately US $31.5 million for all of the issued and outstanding equity in DIC in a transaction valued at approximately US $87.6 million. Upon closing, DIC will...

From his office in Houston, Texas, Coastal Foods, Inc. (Pink Sheets:CSFD) president Bill Evans today announced that an agreement has been reached with the internationally prominent Alain and Marie LeNotre Baking to co-produce at least 4 million select products within their expansive baked-goods product line. The contract is initially valued at nearly three-quarters of a million dollars per year. Stated Bill Evans: "This is a great opportunity for Coastal Foods to work closely with Alain...

By Joanne Morrison WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New Year's resolution a few years ago drove U.S. government litigator Warren Brown to trade the courtroom for the kitchen, reinventing his career and grabbing attention across the United States as the guy who can really bake cakes. After less than two years into his legal career and armed with credit cards, a $125,000 small business loan and no formal culinary training, Brown, 35, founded his bakery, CakeLove, in a trendy part of the U.S....