Filled with a real-version of the famous ooey-gooey filling, the enormous egg stands at 91cm (3ft) tall – about the height of an emperor penguin.
The egg looks similar in every way to it’s regular-sized version, though the signature purple, gold, and red wrapper, is created out of paint and veneer, rather than foil, as there wasn’t a large enough piece to wrap it.
Created by Cadbury chocolatiers Dawn Jenks and Terry Collins the giant chocolate egg, filled with fondant, and engraved with the familar ‘twinkle’ weighs a hefty 45kg. The chocolate experts work at the Cadbury theme park ‘Cadbury World,’ in Birmingham, England.
The pair revealed it took two and a half days to craft the show-stopping egg.
“To actually make the egg we’ve had to have a mould, which we’ve got two sides of, and then we have to build up the chocolate by hand to make sure that the egg actually stays intact,” Collins told BBC.
“Here at Cadbury World we normally do creations for each season and we were just thinking ‘what better way to celebrate Easter than something as iconic as a Creme Egg?’ and we figured ‘we’ve got to go [as] massive as we can with it’,” he said.
He said although he was tempted to try a little nibble during creation, no one will actually get to eat the egg. It has gone on display at Cadbury World’s chocolate-making zone for visitors to marvel over until April 27.
Closer to home, it seems gelato makers have jumped on the trend for oversized Easter treats.
Sydney gelato experts Messina crafted a 1kg chocolate egg filled with cheesecake gelato and a caramel centre, while in New Zealand, Auckland’s Bear Gelato is offering a chocolate egg filled with manuka honeycomb gelato and a chocolate ganache centre, made to be shared and coming in at over 1/2 a kilo.
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