Guinness record bid for world's longest-biggest cake

"The egg-less cake, containing flavours like chocolate, creamy vanilla, will be of five feet high and length of a kilometre. It will be made by 200 bakers", Managing Director of city-based consultancy firm AMN Global Trust, the organisers, R J Ramnarayanan, said.

The preparations for the cake would begin from August 13 at a school, the venue for the event and representatives from the Guinness Book of Records would be present, he said.

"The current record is 57,000 kilo cake which was made in United States last year.. We hope to break the record", he told reporters.

Those born on August 15 would be allowed to cut the cake, which would be sold at Rs 750 per kg. The entry for the event is Rs 799 per head, and the entire proceeds would be donated to the Chief Minter's Relief fund and to the Raghavendra Mantralayam, he said.