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Largest Wedding Cookie Table: The Monongahela Area Historical Society

Aug 13, 2019

Organizer Laura Magone estimated that the event drew some 400 amateur and professional cookie bakers, along with hundreds more who simply wanted to eat them once the counting was done.

As part of its 250th birthday celebration, The Monongahela Areas Historical Society set a World Record for the largest wedding cookie table, with over 50,000 cookies, according to the World Record Academy.

MONONGAHELA,Pennsylvania, United States--As part of its 250th birthday celebration, The Monongahela Areas Historical Society set a World Record for the largest wedding cookie table , withover 50,000 cookies, according to the World Record Academy.

The nonprofit Monongahela 250 organization spent the better part of a year finalizing details and lining up sponsors that included EQT, United Dairy, Washington County Tourism, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and The Hershey Company, which trotted out four new recipes for the event, ThePost-Gazette reports.

They also had to assemble the many bakers who donated their time and ingredients to make the record-setting a success.

The standing world record going in was 18,000 cookies, based on a 2016 story in the Wall Street Journal about a wedding reception in Youngstown, Ohio.

Organizer Laura Magone estimated that the event drew some 400 amateur and professional cookie bakers, along with hundreds more who simply wanted to eat them once the counting was done.

After the record's announcement, anyone who paid $10 could take home as many cookies as they could stuff into a single box or bag, with the proceeds going to the Monongahela Area Historical Society. The remainder went to 412 Food Rescue and first responders, ThePost-Gazette reports.