80-Year-Old Bakes 6,000-Pound Carrot Cake for His Birt...

Ted Martindale didn't want just any birthday party for his 80th. The owner of Granville's Coffee in Quesnel, British Columbia, decided to break a world record instead.

His ambitious plan? Bake the largest carrot cake the world has ever seen.

"I looked up the Guinness World Records carrot cake and I thought, 'Well, we can bake that,'" Martindale told Fox News Digital. "All we have to do is do the mathematics and the whole thing, and I can easily beat that record."

So he did exactly that. The final creation weighed nearly 6,000 pounds and is now under review by Guinness World Records.

The month-long project required baking 432 individual sheet cakes. Martindale stored them in a grocery store freezer, then assembled them like brickwork at the town's senior center on March 25.

The assembly alone took 14 hours and 12 people working together. They couldn't prepare the icing ahead of time because it doesn't freeze well, so the team made it all on the same day.

80-Year-Old Bakes 6,000-Pound Carrot Cake for His Birthday

"When the whole thing was finished, it was amazing," Martindale said. "I just never expected it to look like that. It was beautiful."

The Ripple Effect

What started as one man's wild birthday idea became something much bigger. Two weeks before the event, Martindale and his wife worried nobody would show up.

Instead, the entire town of Quesnel turned out. Parking disappeared. Restaurants filled up. The celebration transformed into an impromptu community festival.

"It was almost like a civic holiday," Martindale said. "It was just amazing."

For Martindale, who has owned Granville's Coffee for 34 years, the coffee shop has always been about community. "It's the focal point of the whole town," he said. "Everybody comes here, and it's a gathering place."

He calls himself "a crazy old man," but shows no signs of slowing down. He still goes to work every day, serving the community that showed up to celebrate his milestone birthday.

The carrot cake may have been the centerpiece, but the real record was the joy it created.