Bakers celebrate Christmas with world's largest panettone

Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A team of bakers in Italy cooked up a 732-pound panettone that was dubbed the world's largest by Guinness World Records.

The Chocolate Academy Center in Milan said the panettone, a traditional Christmas sweet bread, took more than 100 hours to create by a team of six professional bakers, led by Davide Comaschi.

The dessert, which was unveiled at the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, was dubbed the world's largest panettone by a team from Guinness World Records.

The panettone contains 55 pounds of dark chocolate, 15 1/2 pounds of ruby chocolate, 4 1/2 pounds of white chocolate and 55 1/2 pounds of sugar.