| The German city of Dresden celebrates the 20th anniversary of its famous 'Stollen festival' with a special treat: a record Christmas cake of 4,246 kilograms. Full story: For the 20th anniversary of Dresden's famous Christmas market, visitors were treated to a special delicacy: the heaviest recorded Stollen cake weighing over nine-thousand pounds. The cake was brought into the square on a horse-pulled carriage. A Stollen maiden is elected every year to help with preparation of the Dresden Stollen Festival, and a Master Baker overlooks the baking of the cake. According to this year's Stollen Maiden Friederike Pohl, what makes the Dresden Stollen special is the high quality of its ingredients. "Only the best," she says. The Stollen Christmas cake is traditionally made with raisins, rum, almonds and candied lemon peel. More than 60 bakers stirred, baked and layered for three-and-a-half weeks to make the cake. They used over a ton of flour, 750 pounds of sugar, more than 200 milli... | 
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