When you’re presented with a bar of chocolate, your natural instinct is to scoff your face and to enjoy its sweet splendor and never look back. But chocolate doesn’t just come in bar form. In fact, there’s so much you can do with it to make it even more spectacular than it already is.
Chocolatiers around the world have turned the product into an art form. And we’re going to look at a few of our favorite sculptures to leave you feeling inspired… and, quite possibly, hungry.
Arc de Triomphe
Italian chocolatier Mirco Della Vecchia created various landmarks for his Chocolate World Heritage exhibition in Hong Kong back in 2011, including the Arc de Triomphe. The entire collection was carved out of white chocolate by him and his team, which took days to complete. What’s most impressive is the detail, which is seen most clearly with the famous French building. The facade up close is perfect. What more is there to say?
A Working Well
Just a few weeks ago, we were all wowed by the chocolate sculptures in the semi-final of The Great British Bake Off. For us, it was all about Ian Cumming’s well, which not only looked the part, but also wound down to bring you a bonus chocolatey drink. Marvelous… if you ignore the fact that the handle came off in judge Paul Hollywood’s hand when being tested. What’s brilliant about this sculpture, though, is its accessibility. An average Joe created this in just a few hours. What’s to say you can’t?
Roulette Wheel
Ladbrokes has just created a chocolate roulette wheel with a family team at Artistry in Cocoa. The name says it all really… it’s a masterpiece. An incredible 438 individually-moulded pieces make up the design, while 18,000 large chocolate buttons were the basis for the impressive result. If you fancy taking it on yourself, be prepared for some hard work. The wheel took approximately 3 days to design and 69 man hours to create, which doesn’t include the making of the moulds or bearings.
Boyfriend Material
There are probably quite a few women out there who wouldn’t say no to a boyfriend made out of chocolate. This sculpture was included in The Magnum Chocolate Suite, which used over ten tons of chocolate and was directed by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Used to promote the ice-cream brand’s latest collection back in 2011, this certainly stirred things up in the world of chocolate. The possibilities really are endless.
A love of chocolate sculptures is definitely on the up. It’s impressive (sometimes hard to comprehend even) and, of course, it’s tasty. Though we wouldn’t want to be the ones to break into someone’s carefully constructed creation, that’s for sure.
This post was written by Luis Bronson.
