World's Largest Apple Pie

This is not a recipe you’re making at home, and that’s entirely the point. The World’s Largest Apple Pie is a community spectacle, the kind of project that takes a whole town, a custom-built cinder block oven, and quantities measured in bushels and hundreds of pounds.

We’re talking 320 bushels of apples, over a ton of sugar between the white and brown, nearly 78 pounds of cinnamon, and close to 10 gallons of lemon juice. The crust alone calls for 352 pounds of flour and 132 pounds of shortening, rolled out in strips and patched together to line an 18-foot round pan.

Is it practical? Not even a little. Is it the most gloriously absurd thing in baking? Absolutely. Fifteen thousand servings of cinnamon-spiced, brown sugar apple pie baked together in one glorious, record-breaking behemoth.

Fun Facts

• The pan measures 18 feet across and 18 inches deep, baked in a 19-foot custom cinder block oven
• At 15,000 servings, this single pie could feed a small town
• The filling uses both white and brown sugar for deeper caramel flavor in the apples
• Recipes like this are traditionally associated with community fairs and Guinness World Record attempts