Guinness biggest muffin 2015

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™IN MILAN THE WORLD´S LARGEST GLUTEN-FREE MUFFIN IS ITALIAN! OVER 146 KG OF DELICIOUSNESS, BAKED

BY NIPFOOD “RECORDMEN” PASTRY CHEFS FOR SCHÄR, LEADER SINCE 34 YEARS IN THE GLUTEN-FREE MARKET. Ambrogio, the World´s Largest gluten-free Muffin realized by Schär and NIPFood, was appointed this afternoon with the Guinness World Records title during Milan Cake Festival.

From now on, there is a new Italian World Record in the Guinness World Record history: the world´s largest gluten-free muffin. It’s name? Ambrogio, in honor of the City of Milan, hosting the Cake Festival, where the record attempt has taken place. The muffin weights 146,70 Kg, equal to about 1,437 regular muffins, and breaks the previous record by more than 50 Kg, held by a German pastry chef who baked a muffin of “only” 88,7Kg. It was Schär with NIPfood (company for professional training and already Schär partner for the largest gluten-free pizza record) pastry chefs Matteo and Marco Nardi, who had the idea of baking the new world’s largest muffin.

Ambrogio’s baking has been a real accomplishment: both for the quantity of ingredients used and the challenges of recreating on a large scale a classic 80gr muffin, such as Schär Muffins and Choco Muffins, soft and tasty gluten-free treats, ideal for a morning start or as delicious snack.

To find the right recipe, it was first necessary to try and bake 3 muffins of 10kg, and 5 muffins of 100kg, in order to study texture, kneading methods, leavening, and baking timings and temperatures. In addition, two huge aluminium moulds, reproducing on the large scale the regular ones, have been created for the occasion, For the dough the team used a large number of ingredients – 50kg gluten-free flour given by Schär, 20kg sugar, 20kg eggs, 10kg butter, 5kg yeast, 10kg milk, 6kg cocoa, and 25kg dark chocolate. After 6 hours of baking, the pastry chefs have managed to achieve a unique result: a large chocolate muffin, soft and fluffy inside with a crumbly surface, exactly like any good regular pastry muffin.

The Guinness World Record was declared by Lorenzo Veltri, official GWR judge, who measured Ambrogio’s height and weight, but also its taste, baking degree and ingredients balance. Afterwards Ambrogio got sliced and handed out to the audience at Cake Festival, for a sample of a delicious gluten-free treat!