Chocolate records and novelty chocolate gifts
Introduction
If you’re looking for a romantic chocolate gift to send to a friend, chocolates to say sorry with or even some to chocolates to send as a birthday present; you’ll find an amazing selection of chocolate products to choose from by using an online chocolate store to make your purchase. Whilst you won’t find any of the following record breaking chocolates for sale, you will be able to find plenty of traditional chocolate gift boxes, chocolate gift baskets with a variety of chocolate items in them as well as some novelty chocolates.
Record breakers in chocolate confectionary.
In 1998 as part of a chocolate festival in Vienna, Austria, a milk chocolate bar that weighed in at 4410 pounds and measured nearly 16.5 feet by 6.5 feet was unveiled. However, that is dwarfed by the currently largest known milk chocolate bar to be made. Of course, being the biggest where else would it be made but in the USA and, yes, it has to be a Hershey bar. The ‘bar’ is a tear-drop or bulb shape 10.5 feet across, 12 feet high and weighs a staggering 30,450 pounds. Chocolate heaven - or what! NB. Reports of a Nestlé bar of chocolate weighing millions of pounds seem to be an internet spoof!
The largest recorded box of chocolates would have made some birthday chocolate gift. A box of Frango Mint Chocolates was made in 2002 that contained 90,090 individual chocolates and had a total weight of 3226 pounds. Being a box of mixed chocolates there were plenty of dark, milk and white chocolates to choose from. However, sadly I doubt that you’d be able to get that delivered very easily if you wanted to send it as a chocolate gift.
Easter is, of course, the traditional time for exchanging chocolate gifts. One Easter Egg that wasn’t available for ordering over the internet is the biggest ever Easter Egg, according to the Guinness book of records. In 2005 a milk, white and dark chocolate egg was made by 26 Guylian craftsmen in Belgium; it was over 27 feet high, 21 feet wide and took 525 hours to make using a staggering 4300 pounds of chocolate. The largest chocolate Easter Bunny took 253 hours to make in 2006, it was on display in Berlin and was made from 11,320 smaller bunny’s, weighing approximately 3000 pounds.
Novelty chocolate gifts.
I suppose the idea of ‘chocolate lying heavy on the stomach’ could take on a whole new meaning if you were to send someone one of the largest bars of milk chocolate commercially available. The 10 pound novelty bar of chocolate is, reputedly, just that - the largest commercially available chocolate bar in the world. Sending a novelty chocolate gift can be a great way of expressing numerous feelings toward someone. A novelty chocolate gift can be something as simple as a chocolate gift basket for your girlfriend, with a variety of flavors in it such as truffles, praline and marzipan. They can, of course, also include things like animals, flowers and human shapes. Probably the most common novelty chocolate gift that is given is traditional chocolate coins. One type of chocolate, courverture chocolate, has a high proportion of cocoa butter in it, meaning that it can be easily poured and molded. Subsequently, you can approach specialist chocolate manufacturers to make novelty chocolate gifts in just about any shape you might think of.
Organic chocolate gifts as a novelty.
Until quite recently the idea of having organic chocolate would have seemed almost ridiculous. However, today with everyone being more concerned about the quality of the foods we eat and knowing that anything labeled as being organic will be of a superior quality and have fewer impurities in it - sending an organic chocolate gift basket is still a novelty and will undoubtedly be much appreciated by its recipient. Organic chocolate is manufactured from cocoa beans that haven’t been unnecessarily sprayed with pesticides and often carry the ‘Fair Trade’ label. Both of which factors mean that you can indulge yourself in your chocolate gift with a clear conscience - knowing that the environment hasn’t been harmed and the farmer got a good price for his crop.