The Sonoran capital of Hermosillo went big Thursday night for the city’s annual Three Kings Day, or Día de Reyes, celebration.
A 600 meter, or nearly 2,000 foot, rosca de reyes cake stretched for multiple blocks before looping back around.
In Mexico, the circular dessert is decorated with candied fruit and its sweet bread hides a miniature baby Jesus.
Hermosillo families crowded at the barricades to get a glimpse and later, a taste.
“It looks very long, it’s impressive. I’m so happy because I love rosca, honestly,” said Elvira Uzueta, a university student in Hermosillo and came to see the rosca with her family and some friends.
The culinary students who baked this humongous version used nearly a ton of dough. They broke their own record for the city’s longest rosca de reyes, which reached 520 meters at last year’s event.
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A decision from the United Nations’ cultural preservation body, UNESCO, calls for a mission to the Sonora desert nature reserve to assess the impacts of the border wall. -
The investment goes toward modernizing the around 55 mile long stretch between the Lukeville-Sonoyta border crossing into Arizona and Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point. -
Mexico’s environmental protection agency is cleaning up more than 3,000 gallons of sulfuric acid that spilled when a tractor trailer overturned on a highway not far from the Arizona border. -
Sonora’s cattle ranchers’ union says the border will reopen to live cattle after a “technical problem” is resolved. -
The newly inaugurated Plaza de las Buscadoras features a statue of a woman searching for the remains of a missing loved one with a shovel.
