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Sweet! Bakers make world's 'longest' cake

About 1,500 bakers and chefs prepared the serpentine dessert atop thousands of tables and desks. [AFP / Arun SANKAR]

It was a record-baking effort. Hundreds of bakers and chefs in southern India came together Wednesday to create what they said is the world's longest cake -- about 6.5 kilometres (four miles).

They spread chocolate ganache on the serpentine dessert stretched out on thousands of tables and desks at a festival ground and adjoining roads in the coastal state of Kerala's Thrissur city.

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