World's largest chocolate bunny record attempt
Updated on 19 March 2010
South Africa attempts to break the record for the world's largest bunny, made entirely from chocolate.
The sculptured Easter bunny officially came in at 3.82 metres tall (12 feet, 5 inches) and weighed more than 3 tons (2721 kilos).
Even organiser Jason Frichol said: "So, we wanted to do the first in South Africa. We have talented people here.
"The sculptor who did this, the logistics, it took such a big team and we almost thought it was impossible, and you know when South Africans put their heads together with the passion and determination on the wave of the World Cup 2010, it does me proud and does my heart warm."
The world record is held by Brazil currently at 2.8 tonnes.
Harry Johnson is known for being the fastest sculptor in the world. It took the 51 year-old sculptor just three days of chipping and melting solid chocolate to produce a sculpture that replicates a bunny. Mark Fruhauf is one of the four assistants that worked with Johnson on the sculpture.
"To actually do it here was a process of literally phyisically making bricks up of melted chocolate, 6.5 kilogramme bricks, heating them up, putting them togather so we can make it look like a robot bunny, first stages, because of the whole bricking system, plastering and then chipping started or the sculpting started," he said.
"At the moment I don't like chocolate at all, after that sweetness and working so intimately with chocolate for three days and that smell, no. I've got to say have a chocolate lying on my desk and I don't want to touch it. As nice as chocolate is, no ways," added Mark Fruhauf.
The bunny will be broken down in a weeks time and about 250 underprivileged children will have a chance to have a taste of the record breaking chocolate bunny.
