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6 delicious records to celebrate National Ice Cream Day

By Vassiliki Bakogianni
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Get ready for a sweet adventure! 🍦

To celebrate National Ice Cream Day on 21 July (or the 3rd Sunday of July every year), we're diving into 6 of the most mouth-watering ice cream records EVER.

From sky-high cones to epic scoop stacks, these incredible achievements will make your taste buds tingle and your heart race…

So let's explore the coolest, most delicious ice cream feats around the globe!

Tallest ice cream cone

In 2015, in Norway, the world's tallest ice cream cone was made, reaching over 10 feet high! 

Could you eat the whole thing? 😋

Hennig-Olsen Is AS and Trond L Wøien filled a giant wafer cone with heaps of chocolate, 1,080 litres of ice cream, and SO much jam, creating a delicious ice cream that measured 3.08 metres (10 ft 1.26 in) tall.

This massive treat was so big that it had to be carried by a helicopter to the Tall Ships Race event, where everyone got a taste of the fun!

Most ice cream scoops balanced on a cone

In 2018, in Rome, Italy, Dimitri Panciera set a super cool record by balancing an IMPOSSIBLE number of ice cream scoops on a single cone! 🍨

Can you guess how many scoops?

125!

Did you guess correctly?

Imagine eating 125 scoops of all your favourite ice cream flavours… Sounds like the dream. 🤤

Most expensive ice cream

Did you know that the world's most expensive ice cream costs more than a car? 🤑

Made by Cellato in Japan, this luxurious treat named Byakuya costs 873,400 Japanese yen (that’s approximately €5,590, £4,804 or $6,696).

It’s made of super rare – and expensive – ingredients like white truffle, edible gold leaf, and special cheeses.

Cheese on an ice cream sounds pretty weird but you know what they say…

Don’t knock it until you try it! 🤪

Crafted with the help of top chefs, this ice cream is a delicious mix of European and Japanese flavours.

Most flavours of ice cream identified in 1 minute blindfolded

Japanese fortune teller and model Ameepy set this record driven by her passion for ice cream! ❤️

Is ice cream your favourite sweet treat too? What’s your ideal flavour combo?

She identified a remarkable total of 18 different flavours to achieve her goal…

Now THAT is a record we could attempt as many times as needed. 🤣

Longest ice cream dessert

This may be the most impressive record yet…

Imagine an ice cream dessert that spans an incredible 1,387.62 meters (4,551 feet and 8.08 inches)!

That’s as long as about 1,000 school buses lined up end to end. 🚌

In Ludington, Michigan, a team of excited volunteers joined forces to create this masterpiece. Using THOUSANDS of scoops of creamy vanilla ice cream and heaps of tasty toppings, they made a record-breaking dessert that everyone could enjoy. 

This incredible achievement is proof that when we work together, even the sweetest dreams can come true

Largest ice cream scoop

Imagine a scoop of ice cream so large it could fill a swimming pool! 🤩

An incredible ice cream shop in Italy broke the record for the largest ice cream scoop ever made.

This ginormous scoop weighed 136.5 kilograms (about 300.5 pounds) and was crafted by talented ice cream experts. 

Is this ice cream heaven? 🤤

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