Armed with 4,000 eggs and a truckload of sugar and cream, French pastry chefs on Wednesday completed a 121.8 meter (399 feet, eight inch) long strawberry cake which they have claimed is the world’s longest ever made. Youssef El Gatou brought together 20 chefs to make the 1.2 ton masterpiece that took a week to complete and was set out on tables in an ice rink in the Paris suburb town of Argenteuil for residents to inspect.

The effort overtook a 100.48m (329 ft 7 in) long strawberry cake made in the Italian town of San Mauro Torinese in 2019. El Gatou’s cake also used 350 kilograms of strawberries, 150kg of sugar and 415kg of cream.

Attendees watch as a pastry chef adds finishing touches on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

This photograph shows a general view of the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long, as pastry chefs work on adding finishing touches during a Guinness World Record event.

Pastry chefs work on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

A pastry chef works on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

A pastry chef adds finishing touches on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

A pastry chef works on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long during a Guinness World Record event in Argenteuil, northern suburb of Paris.--AFP photos

A Guinness record official measures the height of the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

This photograph shows a general view of the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long, as dancers perform during a Guinness World Record event.

This photograph shows a view of the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

Attendees watch as a pastry chef adds finishing touches on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

This photograph shows a general view of the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long, as pastry chefs work on adding finishing touches during a Guinness World Record event.

Pastry chefs work on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

A pastry chef works on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

A pastry chef adds finishing touches on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

A pastry chef works on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long during a Guinness World Record event in Argenteuil, northern suburb of Paris.--AFP photos

A Guinness record official measures the height of the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

This photograph shows a general view of the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long, as dancers perform during a Guinness World Record event.

This photograph shows a view of the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

Attendees watch as a pastry chef adds finishing touches on the world's largest strawberry cake, 121,88m long.

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To claim the record in the Guinness book, the cake had to be at least eight centimeters wide and eight centimeters tall. The logistics were so difficult that the team “used blowtorches to heat the bowl” for the cream mix, said the chef’s wife Nadia El Gatou. El Gatou said that since a child he had wanted to set a record. “I was looking for a product, or a French pastry, and I also wanted to highlight farm produce, so French strawberries and products like milk, cream and butter,” he told AFP. Residents of Argenteuil who went to see the calorie packed record-breaker on Wednesday were given a piece to take away. - AFP