Life-sized Chocolate Carousel
If you feel like taking a spin on these chocolate ponies, and then bite them…well, you can! This chocolate carousel was made at Disney’s Beach Club Resort using a total of 382 pounds of icing, dark chocolate, honey, confectioner sugar, and bread flour. The carousel can actually spin, the ponies are made of fondant and chocolate, and there are chocolate Disney characters that surround the ponies and are hand-painted. The giant poles are made of candy cane and gingerbread.
Almost 3 Million calories Christmas display
This whole Christmas display is edible, around 1,200 lbs of chocolate were used to make it; and according to the staff that made this, you will only gain almost 3 MILLION calories if you eat it all. Oh, this is so perfect for your diet, right? The pastry staff at the Swan and Dolphin Hotel spent more than 300 hours building it. Laurent Branlard –the executive pastry chef of this hotel-, created the Santa Claus. The gifts, fireplace, and sugar canes are all edible. A visit to the dentist, and the nutritionist are highly recommended after eating this!.
World’s Tallest Chocolate Christmas Tree
Is it a scientific experiment carried out in a lab? Does it look like a little rocket? Is it a burnt tree? Guess again! Behold the 2010 record for the World’s Tallest Chocolate Christmas Tree! This new record was set by Patrick Roger -who is one of France’s most famous chocolatiers- at his studio in Sceaux. The Chocolate tree was 32-foot-tall, and weighted 8-thousand pounds (4-ton), it took a month to be completed, and Patrick used $45,000 worth of chocolate. He auctioned off parts of this tree and donated all to a neuromuscular disease research organization.
Gingerbread Life-sized houses
This Gingerbread House was at the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa’s lobby in Disney World last year. The pastry chefs created this amazing gingerbread life-sized house using more than 2,700 pounds of powdered sugar, honey, flour, pints of egg whites, and apricot glaze. Pretty cool, right? Well, the size of this house was so big that it was used as a sweet shop, where people could buy gingerbread tiles, chocolate, and cookies from it every day.
Ferrero Rocher Christmas tree
Watch out kids, don’t eat all the Christmas tree before Christmas! Prudence Staite is the food artist who designed this edible Christmas tree. It weights around 200kg, it has over 10,000 Ferrero individually wrapped chocolates, and it stands 11 ft. high . This edible tree located in London’s Covent Garden, was part of Ferrero’s Magic of Christmas campaign last year.
Gingerbread Village
Anyone who loves sweet things, would die to be Gulliver and for this creation to be a town of Lilliput. Kaushik Chowdhury –World Pastry Champion- created this spectacular gingerbread village at a Desert Ridge in Phoenix using 250 pounds each of white, milk and dark chocolate, 150 pounds of sugar, and 500 pounds of gingerbread dough. It features hand-crafted gingerbread houses, chocolate eggs, fudge room, and a chocolate river as well.
The 1,600 Pounds Gingerbread Tree
This tree was made by the pastry chefs from Disney completely out of gingerbread. More than 1,600 pounds of ingredients – such as honey and flour – were used, and it was 17 feet tall. Would you like to try if this tree will fit into your house? If you were a giant and lived in a giant’s house, probably!.
Gingerbread Christmas Tree
This unique, colorful, and edible gingerbread-house design was made by Merry Spafford & Claudette Ervin as part of the National Gingerbread House Competition that is hosted every year by the Grove Park Inn. House coming out of trees, this is a first! People would usually fantasize about money growing from trees, but who cares, it’s Christmas time.
Gingerbread Cabin
No, it isn’t a play house or a mansion for your dog, it is an edible cabin in Orange Lake Resort that has its windows and rooflines decorated with 10 pounds of gumdrops and 50 lollipops, and a roof made of shredded wheat cereal of 1,000 pieces.
“Sweet, sweet town” display
Mary Enderson created this edible town made of gingerbread for last year’s Grove Park Inn Competition. Perfect little town design, sweet, and edible… all you need is a hot cup of chocolate, sit next to it, and start having your afternoon snack!.
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