1,200 lb.. cupcake? Works for me.

Manchester's Ryan Abood has a sweet new designation in the Guinness Book of World Records: baker of the world's largest cupcake.

Abood, owner of Gourtmetgiftbaskets.com, presented his colossal confection yesterday at the Woodward Dream Cruise classic-cars event in Royal Oak, Mich.

Guinness representative Carl Saville was on hand to inspect the cupcake as it was unveiled and lowered by forklift onto a floor scale, where it was measured at 1,224 pounds, easily exceeding the 151-pound mark established a month earlier by a Minnesota company, Cakes.com.

Saville's criteria: that the cupcake be edible, cooked throughout and resemble a cupcake. After passing all three tests, Abood's triple vanilla creation -- 4 feet tall and 10 feet wide -- was served to the Dream Cruise crowd in exchange for small donations to the Susan G. Komen Passionately Pink for the Cure charity.

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