Crust Gourmet Pizza Smashes Bar is now a Guiness World Record holder after creating the world’s largest desert pizza on the Gold Coast in October.

The dessert Crust dessert pizza bar smashes was a whopping 46.6m long with a cinnamon crumble base, as well as walnut and brown sugar. Once it was sent through the oven it was topped with fresh strawberries and blueberries, a cream cheese icing and a sprinkle of icing sugar.

The record-breaking pizza weighed in at 120kgs, and was 20sq m in size. Crust’s record attempt beat the previous world record by 6sq m.

Crust product developer Josh Smith said the team aimed to beat the record pretty convincingly so it wouldn’t be too easy to beat again.

To make such a massive base, Josh said there were 58 custom-made interlocking trays of 1m in length.

“We sheeted on average 900g balls of dough which would be for half a tray, so two per metre,” he said.

“We would overlap the dough, squish it together and join it up nicely into one big piece.”

The pizza was on a 50m gravity conveyor so it was able to move through the oven to be cooked.

“We had a trial a couple of weeks prior where we took up the carpark at work and made one 10m long pizza and there were a couple of little things that came up there which worried us,” Josh said.

“But we were glad we saw, fixed and double-checked them for the actual day.

“Apart from taking a long time to do, we expected it to go pretty smoothly.”

On the day, the atmosphere was one of excitement, with the Crust dessert pizza smashes aficionados keen to tackle the record after weeks of planning and trials.

“Kids were coming up and asking questions like when they could eat it and taking pictures, even asking me to take pictures with them – it was great,” Josh said.

“The cinnamon smell grabbed everyone when they came out of the trade show so the crowd was building all day. It was really great to see the response we got.”

Two thousand slices of the dessert pizza were served to the public and what they couldn’t eat was donated to the food rescue charity OzHarvest to feed the community’s hungry and homeless.