Largest cheesecake in the world weighs over 3 tons [video]

And another record has just been broken: the biggest cheesecake in the world was the sensation of the 9th edition of the Cream Cheese Festival, which took place last weekend in the village of Lowville, New York, in the United States.

Known worldwide as a traditional American dessert, the record-breaking version was made with the help of Duff Goldman - star of the Ace of Cakes television show - and featured the recipe's basic ingredients: pasta, cream cheese and sugar.

In all, the cheesecake now on Guinness World Records was 6, 900 pounds, which amounts to 3, 129 pounds, or over 3 tons of candy. In addition, the giant dessert was 2.28 meters in diameter and 78 centimeters deep.

The Huffington Post reports that the world's largest cheesecake has yielded more than 24, 500 servings. At the festival, about 10, 000 people who attended the event were able to taste the dessert. The rest of the portions were donated to Lowville Food Pantry and The Watertown Salvation Army Soup Kitchen, which are institutions that distribute food to people in need.

The local newspaper Watertown Daily Times points out that the cheesecake prepared for the 2012 edition of the Cream Cheese Festival had broken the national record with 1, 200 pounds, the equivalent of 544 pounds. However, the world record belonged to Kraft Food Mexico, which made a cheesecake of £ 4, 703, or 2, 133 pounds in 2009.