Sweet dream: the biggest chocolates in the world

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

White or black, bitter or milk, with the addition of all kinds of fillers or with its own unique taste - all types of chocolate are impossible to list. Every year, more than 3.5 million tons of cocoa beans are harvested worldwide to make this sweet treat.

Chocolate is believed to have antidepressant properties: even a small piece can significantly lift your mood. What then to say about the biggest chocolates, which were produced more than once by factories in different countries.

Longest tile

The world's first hard chocolate bar appeared in the early 19th century. Prior to that, it was consumed only in the form of a sweet drink. The new form of delicacy quickly gained popularity. And soon chocolate factories began to appear.

Since then, manufacturers have been tryingattract the attention of lovers of sweets, inventing new fillings, flavors and forms of the product. A rather successful marketing ploy was the production of a huge tile, which attracted the attention of customers from many countries.

There were several such trials. One of the largest chocolates to remember was a bar created in 2007 in Italy, in the city of Turin. The masters of the Rivarolo confectionery company have created a dream of sweet teeth with a length of more than 11 meters. Its dimensions were officially recorded in the Guinness Book of Records, and several hundred residents of Turin were able to verify the quality of the taste.

Big chocolate bar from Armenia

In 2010, the confectionery company Grand Candy, located in Yerevan, produced a huge bar of bitter dark chocolate from elite cocoa varieties. Several dozen masters created a delicious masterpiece for almost 4 days. And no wonder: its length turned out to be 5.68 meters, and the width slightly exceeded a meter. The weight of the tasty giant was 4410 kilograms.

The management of the factory explained that they decided to create this sweet masterpiece for the tenth anniversary of the company. It is noteworthy that the presentation was attended by representatives of the Guinness Book of Records, who not only immediately set the record, but also appreciated the taste of the delicacy.

For a whole year, the sweet bar created by Armenian confectioners was considered the biggest chocolate bar. Meticulous viewers determined that this delicacy should be enough for one person for 450 years. Of course, no one would wait so long and tryeveryone present could have a piece of chocolate.

Huge milk chocolate

Soon, the result of confectioners from Armenia was surpassed by the masters of the American company World's Finest Chocolate, located in the state of Illinois. They have tried several times before to set a sweet record. In September 2011, the largest chocolate bar in the world was presented. Her weight was 5574 kilograms, and they could only lift her with the help of special cables.

To prepare this giant, 544 kilograms of almonds, 770 kg of cocoa butter, 907 kg of milk powder and more than two tons of sugar were used. For flavor, 640 kg of chocolate liqueur was added to the mixture. No one knows how long it took to create this masterpiece, but the effort was worth it. Photos of the largest chocolate were published in all the world's publications, and sales of World's Finest Chocolate sweets skyrocketed.

The creators did not limit themselves to demonstrating a huge tile in their native Chicago and sent their masterpiece on a tour of US cities. The purpose of the trip was to draw attention to he althy eating and avoid overeating. They transported a huge chocolate bar on a special truck with a transparent body.

Chocolate square

Today, the glory of the largest chocolate belongs to the product of the British confectionery company Thorntons. The tile was released on the centenary of its foundation, and the final weight of the delicacy turned out to be almost 75,000 standard tiles of this company.

Hugethe dream of the sweet tooth is made in the form of a square with sides of 4 meters and weighs 5792.5 kilograms. At the festive ceremony, company executives said that more than fifty experienced employees worked on the manufacture of tiles. Pouring the sweet mass into the mold lasted 10 hours, and then for almost three days the chocolate cooled and solidified.

Representatives of the Guinness Book of Records were invited to the holiday, who officially recorded the parameters of the giant delicacy and issued a confirmation certificate. Since then, the answer to the question of which chocolate bar is the largest in the world has remained unchanged.

It was not only the size that was surprising in this chocolate bar: after all the guests had tasted it, the pieces of the bar were transferred to pastry shops. And the proceeds from the sale of these pieces, the company's management sent to charity.

Affordable large chocolates

Unfortunately, or maybe not, chocolates weighing several tons are produced very rarely. But there is always the opportunity to please loved ones with unusually large tiles of your favorite varieties of sweets. For example, in addition to the 100-gram package that has been familiar since childhood, the Krasny Oktyabr factory began producing the largest chocolate bar, Alenka. Its weight is twice the usual - 200 grams. Fortunately, only the size has changed, but the usual taste of a delicate milky delicacy has remained.

And Milka, a company popular with sweet teeth, went even further by offering its customers 300-gram bars, which is a bitmore than three regular desserts. The largest chocolate bar "Milka" is presented in several flavors (with whole nuts and caramel, with Milka Oreo biscuits), so everyone will choose the sweetness to their liking.

Interesting facts about chocolate

After getting acquainted with the largest chocolates in the world, it is worth learning a little about other unusual confectionery products:

• The biggest chocolate bar weighs 800 kg. It is 130 meters long and was created in just 20 minutes.
• The largest chocolate Easter egg was made by pastry chefs in the resort town of San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina. Its height was 9 m, and its diameter was about five meters. It took more than 4 tons of chocolate to make it.
• The idea to create a luxury chocolate with golden flakes sprinkled with small diamond chips belongs to the Swiss company Cocoa Gourmet. The sweets are literally wrapped in thin edible gold and are absolutely safe for digestion.

This is how it happens - delicious and he althy chocolate.