{"id":3187,"date":"2013-09-30T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2015-10-29T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:41:14","slug":"choc-full-of-ideas-creative-uses-for-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/choc-full-of-ideas-creative-uses-for-chocolate","title":{"rendered":"Choc Full of Ideas &#8211; Creative Uses for Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/choc-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"choc\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/choc.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/choc-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chocolate City here I come!<\/p>\n<p>Forget a boring little square of chocolate with your afternoon cuppa in the office.<\/p>\n<p>This velvety smooth, gorgeously stimulating substance has been used creatively to put a smile on people\u2019s faces on many occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Naomi Newton hosted a barbecue for her friends and family last summer &#8211; but her barbie was made entirely of Cadbury\u2019s Dairy Milk, with a chocolate grill and chocolate chops. Naomi won the life-sized choccy barbie in a Cadbury\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years all sorts of people, from professional artists to ambitious chocolatiers, have been deliciously creative in their choccy construction projects.<\/p>\n<p>King Kong would have loved to run rampant through the chocolate city created in the 21-21 Design Site exhibition held in Tokyo back in 2007 &#8211; although it was only a miniature city and he could have swallowed it in one mouthful.<\/p>\n<p>And a pair of mouth-watering Nike trainers were created in Swiss chocolate to mark the 25th anniversary of the classic Air Force 1 shoe in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>As if that wasn\u2019t a step too far, during the same year ambitious Italian confectioners spent more than a year creating a life-size replica of a Ferrari race car from 2,000 kg (4,405 lbs) of pure Belgian chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit<\/em>: \u00a0&#8220;Bar of Guittard chocolate&#8221; by Stu Spivack &#8211; Guittard single origin bittersweet chocolate. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons &#8211; https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bar_of_Guittard_chocolate.jpg#\/media\/File:Bar_of_Guittard_chocolate.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate City here I come! Forget a boring little square of chocolate with your afternoon cuppa in the office. This velvety smooth, gorgeously stimulating substance has been used creatively to put a smile on people\u2019s faces on many occasions. 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