Strood chocolatiers unveil 'UK's largest' 300kg Easter egg
A Kent chocolatier has claimed to have created the UK's largest Easter egg, which weighs about 300kg and stands about 7ft tall.The Good Egg has a shell 8cm thick, a diameter of more than 4ft and is tied with a giant yellow bow.Chocolatiers Cocoba, based in Strood, said the egg took five members of staff a total of five days to complete, having failed the first time after it was taken out of its mould and cracked.Reg Jassal, production manager at Cocoba, said: "It's as deep as a jacuzzi bath."
"It was one January weekend and I was new to the business when I read an email which said we need to make a 250kg egg and I thought, 'we make a 250g egg', so I kept my head down thinking I was a misprint," he said.According to the Guinness World Records, the tallest chocolate Easter Egg was made in Italy on 16 April 2011, and was 10.39m (34ft 1.05in) in height.Earlier this month, Cadbury unveiled their own 45kg Creme Egg.
Head chocolate engineer Lukasz Zajac, who is also a plasterer, said he finished the outside of the egg with melted chocolate to smooth the surface and then sprayed it with several layers of cocoa butter."It took five us to carry this egg and prop it up right. You just don't know how the temperature and humidity can affect the chocolate and how much it will shrink," he said.After Easter, the egg will be cracked open and melted down to make 3,000 normal-sized chocolate bars.The company says profits from these bars will be donated to good causes.
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