Benedict Cumberbatch gets his own chocolate sculpture.
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According to BBC and People Magazine, UKTV surveyed 2,000 women to find out who Britain's dishiest dramatic actor was, and viola, the answer was Benedict Cumberbatch! Winning 12% of the votes, he was honoured with an edible chocolate statue to celebrate his acting excellence and new show Drama.
PHOTO: IGNWeighing 40 kg the chocolate clone took a team of eight chocolatiers and 250 hours to craft Cumberbatch's dessert version. Standing at 6 feet tall, this sculpture is called Chocobatch and has been sculpted out of 500 bars (40,000 grams) of the finest Belgian chocolate.
PHOTO: STANDARD UKThe delicious actor will be on display to the public at Westfield Stratford City in east London on Friday. Runner-ups of the survey were Broadchurch star David Tennant followed by former Game Of Thrones actor Sean Bean.
But that’s not all, there have been many a cases of edible sculptures of celebs, here’s a list:
Nigella Lawson couldn’t quite put her thoughts to words as she saw a chocolate statue of her sitting in the window of U.K. department store Selfridges in 2003. The British chef took to Twitter to show her fans the dessert clone:
Just found this quite bonkers pic of me posing with chocolate statue of self. Pleasingly mad life pic.twitter.com/zhE4djoNJN
— Nigella Lawson (@Nigella_Lawson) March 14, 2015
Elton John who sang the rhapsodic Circle of Life, was immortalized in chocolate to celebrate Cadbury’s 100 year anniversary. The confectionary company took a poll to find out the nation’s favourite celebrity, Elton John won beating Will Young, Paula Radcliffe and David Beckham. The statue reportedly took 1000 hours to make and weighs 126 kg.
PHOTO: PINTERESTCalled Mona, MJ’s chocolate statue was sculpted in memory of the late US singer and sits in the window display of a pastry shop in Balaguer. The Thriller singer’s statue has been made of 75 kg of chocolate. It’s called Mona because in Catalunya, a traditional chocolate cake named Mona is given as a gift to children at Easter.
PHOTO: ECONOMIC TIMESUnveiling a dark chocolate version of himself, Mario Lopez posed next to his chocolate version at a mall in Los Angeles. The X Factor host mimicked his edible counterpart which was made entirely out of Dove chocolate.
PHOTO: DAILY MAILWho’s hungry for Katniss Everdeen? The Hunger Games star was flattered by her edible character clone and said it made her “dreams as an actress come true.” The statue which took 10 weeks to make was actually an entry in the Cake International contest in Birmingham and required 150 eggs, 10 kg each of flour, butter and sugar and 2 kg of yogurt while the intricate outer layer required 60 kg of icing, 10 kg of modeling chocolate and 5 kg of ganache. Contestant, Lara Clarke won the competition with her 5’ 11’ tall Jennifer Lawrence cake clone.
PHOTO: PEOPLE MAGAZINEThe pastry chef didn’t stop there, she went on to make a clone of our favourite Game of Thrones character, Tyrion Lannister for the same competition a year later and bagged the silver award. Two years before that, she won the competition by sculpting Jack Sparrow out of Rice Krispies.
PHOTO: THE LAD BIBLEWeighing 115 kg, Messi’s life-sized chocolate counterpart has been made purely out of chocolate. A pastry shop in the town of Lleida honoured the reigning soccer player and put his edible statue on display.
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