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'Buckingham Palace' in Bangalore!
by KG Vasuki
Bangalore:
Hundreds of curious people are thronging to watch
the 16 feet high Buckingham Palace model put on display
at the 36th annual Nilgiri's Cake Exhibition being held
here. Every year, apart from varieties rich plum cakes,
marzipans, chocolates, cookies, ice creams, dairy desserts
and X'mas goodies, an exclusive gigantic cake is the main
attraction of this popular annual exhibition. And, this
year, the cynosure of eyes is the Buckigham Palace shaped
model cake, structured from sugar sans any external reinforcement.
"This year we have made the Buckingham Palace which is
measuring 58 feet in width, 16 feet in height and 15 kilograms
in weight. We have used about 8 tonnes of sugar and totally
20,000 man hours have been put in to make this model,"
said C. Ramachandran, Director, Nilgiri's Dairy Farm,
Bangalore. Nilgiri's Cake Exhibition, which commenced
on Friday (Dec.19), is a major draw for aficionados of
cakes and pastries. People are making beeline to watch,
relish and buy out of a wide varieties of cakes available
at the exhibition. In the past, Nilgiri's Cake Exhibition
showcased an exotic range of cakes modelled after the
new Seven Wonders of the World. Among other cake models
have been the World Trade Centre, Eiffel Tower and Mysore
Palace. For over three decades, Niligiri's Cake Exhibition
has become a milestone in the saga of modern Bangalore,
usually hosted a week prior to every Christmas and it
remains open till the New Year eve. The first edition
this famed cake show was held in 1969. The cake exhibition
has also been listed in the Limca Book of Records and
would have found an entry the Guinness Almanac of World
Records too but for the absence of specific category of
cake exhibitions.
-Dec
21, 2008
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