This Andhra Sweet Shop Is A 5-Time Guiness Record Winner For Making World's Biggest Laddu

A 8,000 + kg 'laddu' prepared by an Andhra Pradesh shop, during the 2015 Ganesh festival has set a Guinness Record as the largest sweetmeat of its kind for the fifth consecutive year, the makers said today.

"We received the Guinness World Records certificate last evening for the fifth consecutive year. With the cooperation of our staff, people and Lord Ganesh's blessing, we bagged the award this year also," Tapeswaram's Sri Bhakta Anjaneya Sweets owner Saladi Venkateswara Rao said.

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The Guinness World Records Certificate says, "The largest individual 'laddu' weighs 8,369 kg (18,450 lb 7.78 oz) and was made by Sri Bhakta Anjaneya Sweets (India) owned by S Venkateswara Rao (India) in Tapeswaram, Andhra Pradesh, India, on 15th September 2015."

Rao's team had prepared the 'laddu' for the idol of Lord Ganesh installed at Visakhapatnam in the state during the Ganpati festival in September.

Here¡¯s the recipe for what the Guinness team called a "dentist¡¯s nightmare":

2,300 kg (5,700 lb 10 oz) gram flour
2700 kg (5,792 lb 7 oz) sugar
2000 kg (4409 lb 3 oz) ghee
700 kg (1,543 lb 3 oz) candy rock chips
800 kg (1,763 lb 11 oz) mixed nuts
70 kg (154 lb 5 oz) cardamom

"This year we made two 'maha laddus' of 8,000 kg and 6,000 kg for Ganesh idols installed at Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada respectively," the shop owner said.

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They claim to have bagged the Guinness Record for a 5,570 kg laddu in 2011, 6,599 kg in 2012, 7,132 kg in 2013 and 7,858 kg in 2014.

"Our next target is to prepare a 500 kg kova (milk, sweet recipe) for Saibaba at Shirdi in Maharashtra," Rao added.

This is prep work for the 2013 laddu looked like.