White Chocolate Sculpture
January 25, 2011
I’m absolutely fascinated by sculptures crafted in chocolate. Perhaps it is because I don’t have an artistic bone in my body. I do, however, have a deep admiration for those that do.
I have had several blog posts in the past showing off many chocolatiers’ incredible artistic skills.
Most, if not all, of those were carved from milk or semi-sweet chocolate.
Recently, one of Italy's well known chocolatiers, Mirco Della Vecchia, formed his creation from white chocolate.
His project was to sculpt and display famous tourist destinations from around the world.
Here is one I especially like, a model of Stonehenge in white chocolate. The worn look on the stone is so realistic!
Besides England's Stonehenge, the artist also used white chocolate to portray Paris' Arc de Triomphe, Greece's Parthenon, Italy's leaning Tower of Pisa, and Egyptian temples.
All these are on exhibit in Hong Kong at the Chocolate World Heritage show.
Vecchia started entering competitions in 1996. He currently holds the Guinness World Record award for the largest chocolate sculpture in the world – he and his team created a white chocolate “Dome of Milan” which measured at 1.5 meters tall, 2.5 meters long and weighed 5.37 tons.
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