'World's largest Easter egg' weighing 4 TONS and 27ft high unveiled at Bariloche Chocolate Festival

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That's no yolk! 'World's largest Easter egg' weighing 4 TONS and over 27ft high unveiled in Argentina

By Daily Mail Reporter

Published: 19:17 EST, 8 April 2012 | Updated: 06:40 EST, 9 April 2012

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Weighing in at over four tons, a contender for the world's largest Easter egg was unveiled to a crowd of chocolate lovers in Argentina today.

Twenty-seven bakeries worked for two weeks to make enough chocolate for the gargantuan concoction wheeled in to the Chocolate Festival in Bariloche.

Towering over 27ft high (8.5m) and 16ft wide (5m), the sweet treat required a reported 8,800lbs (4,000kgs) of chocolate, hovering over a sea of spectators who gathered for a taste.  

World's largest: Pastry chefs unveil a chocolate Easter egg towering over 27ft tall at the Chocolate Festival in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

World's largest: Pastry chefs unveil a chocolate Easter egg towering over 27ft tall at the Chocolate Festival in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

The major of San Carlos de Bariloche, Omar Goye, was present at the festival, where the Easter egg was to be certified by the Guinness Records as the world's largest.  

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Chocolatier Diego Ferraris told Esenciapatagonia.com the Easter egg was assembled using a wooden mold as foundation for the chocolate spread.

Crowds: Hundreds gathered at the City Centre for a taste of the monster egg

Crowds: Hundreds gathered at the City Centre for a taste of the monster concoction

Sweet treat: Spectators fills the square to admire the Easter egg

Sweet treat: Spectators fills the square to admire the Easter egg

People gather at the Civic Centre of San Carlos de Bariloche, in the foothills of the Andes Chocolate coma: A reported 8,800lbs (4,000kgs) of chocolate was used to create the egg

Chocolate coma: A reported 8,800lbs (4,000kgs) of chocolate was used to create the egg

Pastry chefs, led by master baker Hugo Sosa, attached blocks of chocolate to the frame.

The chocolate egg is said to have beaten the previous record for the world's largest, built in Belgium, which stood 8.32m (27.3ft) high.

But temperatures in the region meant crowds didn't have long to admire the egg before it started melting.

Dripping: Pastry chefs began breaking the egg for the crowd as the surface began to melt

Dripping: Pastry chefs began breaking the egg for the crowd as the surface began to melt

Time for a taste: A chef breaks off pieces of the Easter egg for the crowd

Time for a taste: A chef breaks off pieces of the Easter egg for the crowd

Sugar high: Children have a bite of chocolate from the egg Sugar high: Children have a bite of chocolate from the egg

Sugar high: Children have a bite of chocolate as chefs hand out heaping tastes to the crowd

Shell: A wood frame was used as foundation for the tons of chocolate used for the giant egg Shell: A wood frame was used as foundation for the tons of chocolate used for the giant egg

Shell: A wood frame was used as foundation for the tons of chocolate used for the giant egg

Chefs used cranes to break off chunks of the chocolate and hand them out to the crowd as the sun beamed down.

The Chocolate Festival has lured chocolatiers and chocolate lovers to the region since 1969 with events, races and other chocolate-themed activities.

The festival this year ran from March 31-April 8.

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