TWIN GIANT STRAWBERRY CAKE.

La Trinidad Mayor Romeo K. Salda (r) and Vice-Mayor Roderick Awingan led the ceremonial slicing of the Twin Giant Strawberry Cake which is the highlight event of the Strawberry Festival  2023.

The Red strawberry represents to Sweet Charlie chuga variety and the white strawberry represents to snow-white milky way variety strawberry held at Lednicky Hall, Municipal of La Trinidad, Benguet on March 18, 2023.

In an interview with Mayor Salda, “We would like to thank all the La Trinidad Bakers Association.

They are  APPLE BLOSSOM BAKERY by Nonette Balao, BADU CAKES by Jayne Ducusin, AD’LAINE BAKESHOP by Adelaide Dormiendo, and MENCHIES’S BAKERY by Normancito Obar,”

“The ingredients of this specification twin giant strawberry cake used 275 kilos of fresh  Strawberries and the total of giant cake is 1,738 kilos approximate.

“The Dimensions is 2.4 meters in height, the diameter is 1.7 meters and the length is 3.9 meters and we have 16,000 slices at P30.00 per piece.

“The frame of the cake was made is 1 week, then after the frame the baking of the strawberry cake it took on March 17, at 7:30 AM and finished at 4:27 AM of March 18, 2023.

“The amount we appropriated is P1.2 million just for the cake because the white strawberry is very expensive than the red strawberry, the snow white strawberry is P800 per kilo while the sweet Charlie strawberry is P250 per kilo,” Salda concluded.   Photo by: Mario Oclaman // FNS