Baking history: Croatian village breaks strudel record with 8940 desserts

With tonnes of flower and apples, a Croatian village has made it into the Guinness World Records with a line of strudels stretching more than 3km.

Two tonnes of flour and three tonnes of apples were used for the world’s longest line of strudels – baked pastry desserts – in the small village of Jaskovo, organisers said.

“After very rigorous verification and counting, I can announce that a total was achieved of 8940 strudels, which means that’s a new Guinness World Record title,” said Paulina Sapinska, a Guinness World Records adjudicator, after the measurement.

The line of strudels was 3136m long.

During the village’s traditional Strudelfest, the strudels, made following a regional recipe, were laid in line by locals and volunteers.

“They’ve been working so hard,” Monika Ivis, one of several thousand visitors to the event, said.

Organisers said two tonnes of flour and three tonnes of apples were used for the world's longest line of strudels in the village of Jaskovo. Photo / AFP

“They taste super,” she told AFP.

“Strudel is a symbol linked with local tradition,” Mayor Martina Furdek Hajdin said earlier, adding that such events helped boost the rural region’s development.

The strudels used to break the record will be donated to various institutions, organisations and people in need.

Jaskovo, 66km southwest of Zagreb, had claimed the world record a decade ago. On that occasion, it recorded a 1479m line of strudels.

The previous record from 2019 was held by the Croatian town of Sisak, where the line of nearly 6000 strudels measured more than 1762m.

– Agence France-Presse