Giant Chocolate Cuckoo Clock
Today we have yet another example of something spectacularly cool made out of that most precious of foodstuffs (chocolate of course). Most of the items I've seen made from chocolate are pretty cool and all, but this has the added bonus cool factor of being a cuckoo clock made of chocolate with marzipan trim on a wood frame. The Halloren Chocolate Factory (the oldest in Germany) and the Harz Clock Factory collaborated on this new Guinness World Record clock which is over nine feet tall and weighs in at over 250lbs! And the artistry involved in the creation of this beast is impressive as well. Just check out the detail work being done in these pictures. Absolutely lovely work. All the beautiful detail work was sold off in pieces for charity. Attached are a few articles on the endeavor including some excellent pictures. Most of the articles are in German so I've included the (painful to attempt to read) Google translations.
Yahoo News Article (In English)
These next two feature nice galleries (especially the first one) - link is at the top of the article
Halloren 2nd Press Release - Translated
Halloren 1st Press Release - Translated
The rest are various media outlets and each has a single picture
Super Sonntag - Translation
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung - Translation
Comments
Esther Said:
This Cuckoo clock is infact a rare piece of chocolate art. I congratulate you on your attempt to
translate in from German and make it manifest for your readers.
{However, what I found here is an opportunity to point out that even this chocolate art unlike other bread arts has a more diversified functionality - of a clock!
The last piece of chocolate art that I came across was the most expensive, with the cut out of African continent, studded with diamond.
{If I compare the African chocolate map to the cuckoo clock, I would find the latter more suitable as a gift. Though the latter's price is unknown, but its utility as a clock appeals me much.
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