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In celebration of its 55th birthday, East 60th Street’s Serendipity 3 -- home of the famous frozen hot chocolate – set a world record for Largest Cup of Hot Chocolate on Monday.The cup used clocks in at four gallons, more than 100 times the size of the restaurant’s standard serving of hot chocolate. Stephen Bruce, S3’s owner/founder/Walt Disney lookalike mixed up the giant creation himself, with a little help from kitchen staffers, using the restaurant’s traditional hot chocolate mix, only in slightly larger quantities: 12 pounds of cocoa powder blended from 14 different cocoas, 8 quarts of heavy

Mexico City residents lined up on Sunday for a piece of a massive traditional holiday sweet bread weighing over ten metric tons, a world- record-smashing size, according to city officials.The massive pastry, a popular bread called the "rosca de reyes" that appears around the Three Kings holiday in Mexico, measures 720 meters long and used over 50,000 eggs and 2,900 kilos of sugar.The national bakers' association has sponsored the creation of the huge " rosca" for the last three years in the capital.Hundreds of residents crowded in lines for a piece of the behemoth treat, which completely wrapped