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Philly Cream Cheese Will Attempt to Smash Guinness World
Record for Largest Cheesecake at Saturday’s Cream Cheese Festival in
Lowville
Published: September 18, 2024
at 01:00 p.m.
By: Nick Altmire
 
File photos from linkinglewiscounty.com of the 2022
(right) and 2023 (left) giant cheesecakes created and served by the local
Philadelphia Cream Cheese plant at each year’s Cream Cheese Festival. This
year Kraft will attempt to reclaim the Guinness World Record title for
largest cheesecake during the annual Cream Cheese festival on Saturday, September
21, in Lowville, NY
Lowville, NY- On Saturday,
September 21, at the annual Cream
Cheese Festival in Lowville, NY, the Philadelphia cream cheese
brand will attempt to reclaim its GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® title
for Largest Cheesecake right in the hometown of Philly's biggest factory.
Philadelphia
cream cheese received the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for
Largest Cheesecake in 2013 (with a seven-foot-wide cheesecake weighing 6,900
pounds unveiled at the Lowville Cream Cheese Festival) and is looking to
shatter the current record (set in 2017 by a company in Russia with a 9,300-pound
cheesecake that was 9 feet 2 inches in diameter) by more than 5,000 lbs. by
creating a 15,000 lb. cheesecake – solidifying its place in world
cheesecake supremacy for years to come.
The details of the Philadelphia Cheesecake record-setting attempt include:
- Goal weight: ~15,000 lbs,
equivalent to 10 dairy cows
- Pan: outside diameter of 11ft., 6in. and an
inside diameter of 10ft., 10in.
- Filling: ~13,500 lbs
of Philadelphia's Ready to Eat
Cheesecake
- Crust: over 870 lbs
of graham cracker crumbs and over 330 lbs
of sugar
Following the
reveal during the festival on Saturday, September 21, Lieutenant Colonel
Adam C. Keller, Commander, 6-6 Air Cavalry Squadron, 10th Combat Aviation
Brigade, 10th Mountain Division will cut the Philadelphia Cheesecake and
slices will be handed out to fans. Festival goers can also take home
cheesecake with the remaining donated to the Lowville Food Pantry and Watertown Urban Mission to ensure
everyone can enjoy the creamy goodness.
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