Vancouver Island University hopes to set a record this weekend for the biggest Nanaimo bar.
Students and instructors will create a 1,100-pound no-bake dessert, complete with Graham cracker crumb crust, cocoa powder, nuts, coconut, custard and chocolate, according to a press release, in a fundraiser for new ovens for the culinary arts and professional baking and pastry arts programs.
Prep work has already begun, and the university will host a community event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at the Windsor Plywood Trades Discovery Centre at the Nanaimo campus. The bar will be cut and served at noon.
The current record-holders are from Levack, Ont., who created a 529-pound bar in 2020.
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