Giant Chocolate Easter Bunny

It took Crafty Corner 3 days to Help Duracell attempt to break the World Record for the largest solid chocolate bunny.
Weighing in at 3,014 tons and measuring 3,82 metres high, Crafty Corner broke the previous record by far.

How it was done

Our first challenge was to find a supplier who could supply 3 tons of chocolate at short notice. Through our network of contacts, Chris from Gold Reef Chocolates came to the rescue, and before we knew it, we were flooded under a mountain of chocolate.

The chocolate came in 400g slabs, and to make a giant chocolate bunny with these would have been virtually impossible. Enter Chris. We asked Chris and his team at Gold Reef Chocolates to rescue us. The slabs were melted into solid bricks weighing in at 6,5kg each and individually packaged by Gold Reef Chocolates in strict accordance with our country’s health regulations, giving us something we could really work with.

With the chocolate sorted, Mark Fruhauf set about designing a giant chocolate bunny that would be solid, as well as meet the strict regulations in order for this to be recognized as an official world record.

The Frame that was used to support the chocolate structure

Our sculptor created an internal steel frame to provide extra stability for safety’s sake, after all, if this toppled over, it would bring a whole new meaning to the term “death by chocolate!”

Starting to pack the 6.5 kg blocks of chocolate

Later on in the packing stage

With a solid design and a mountain of chocolate to work with, the Crafty Corner team set about creating a giant mound of chocolate. As the giant bunny had to be solid, we had to physically melt the blocks with a blowtorch and stick them together. Once we had completed a very rough “robot” looking bunny from the blocks weighing about 2.5 tons, the sculpting team then set about shaping the blocks. As we sculpted, we collected the flying chips and added them to trays of melted chocolate to make up a chocolate “plaster paste” which was then used to form the detail of the bunny. This process allowed us to add the additional 500Kg that was what we needed to make the 3014kg total in the end.

Constuction of the face begins

Face with more detail after several hours of construction

The Chocolate Easter Bunny nearing completion, no sleep and many hours later.

The entire process took from Monday morning 15th April 2010 to Thursday when Duracell gave the sign off at 16:00 18th March 2010.

Almost lost in the entire story is how the entire bunny is resting on a tiny scale supplied by Scale Tronics Systems that is being used to display the final weight to the public and for our record keepers.

We all had a blast and kept each other awake with jokes loads or moral support and WATER. Now all that remains to be seen is…. what shall we do next?