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This world record attempt really takes the biscuit - the 'world's biggest custard cream' measuring a whopping 68cm. The gut-busting biscuit is 68cm (27ins) long, 50cm (20ins) high, and 15cm (6ins) thick. It weighed a whopping 16.3kg (35.94 lb) – the same as a three-year-old child.

The massive treat is 216 times bigger than a normal-sized biscuit and beat the previous record which was set in 2010 by chef pals Simon Morgan and Paul Thacker in Nottingham. More than 55 children attending the Rotary’s Café Holiday Club in Oswestry, Shropshire, spent 72 hours building the huge biscuit.

Jason Fell, 45, who has been co-ordinating the holiday club for the past five years, said: 'When we announced that we had taken the record there were huge cheers from the children and all the helpers.