Dec. 10 (UPI) — Members of a Pittsburgh-area Facebook page organized a world record attempt that involved the baking of 83,427 total cookies for a massive exchange.<\/p>\n
The attempt to hold the world’s largest cookie exchange, organized by The Wedding Cookie Table Community Facebook page, brought together 583 bakers<\/a> in 67 teams from 14 states — and New Zealand.\n<\/p>\n The bakers displayed 83,427 cookies on team tables at the Washington County Fairgrounds, and in the end 73,835 cookies were exchanged.<\/p>\n Laura Magone, the creator of The Wedding Cookie Table Community, said the cookies were Christmas-themed.<\/p>\n “So you had everything decorated like snowballs and Santa Claus<\/a> and reindeer, just a lot of fun,” she told CBS Pittsburgh.<\/a><\/p>\n Evidence from the attempt will be submitted to Guinness World Records in the hopes of originating the category of the largest Christmas cookie exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 10 (UPI) — Members of a Pittsburgh-area Facebook page organized a world record attempt that involved the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8773,18228,73,75,74,5528,18229],"class_list":{"0":"post-57613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-funny","9":"tag-odd","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","12":"tag-pittsburgh-news","13":"tag-santa-claus","14":"tag-weird"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}