Well, not really a Danish pastry, but actually the Swedish favorite, a semla, a tasty brown-bread confection filled with whipped cream and almond paste. But the 300 kg is real.
It’s especially popular around Shrove Tuesday, this coming week, so a team led by baker Daniel Granholm, above, put together their giant version, about two thousand times the size of a normal semla. It ended up twice the size they intended and took five attempts to successully mix and bake it.
And how did it taste, filled with 130 kilos of cream and 30 of almond paste? Moses Isik, CEO of Bake My Day, which sponsored the event, told reporters that “It tastes just as good as our normal semla buns, it’s got exactly the same ingredients. The problem is getting everything in one bite, that’s a bit harder.”
