New York, Aug 01: The world's biggest chocolate candy has been unveiled in New York. The world's largest piece of chocolate at 6,750 pounds (3,068 kg) was unveiled on Thursday in New York by the Hershey Foods Corp., enough to put it in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Hershey's scientist Shawn Bennett said: "This is the Guinness Book of World Record's largest candy. It's over six and a half feet tall, it's over six and a half feet wide, it weighs over six thousand pounds and is well over three tonnes, and it takes about six hundred and seventy-five thousand nine hundred of these to make that large 'Kiss'."
The gigantic candy is shaped in a cone, the trademark of Hershey's candy "Kisses". The exact statistics are 6 feet, 6 inches tall, weighing 10-pound (4.5-kg) with blocks of chocolate stacked 53 layers high.
Pastry chef, Julie Ann Woo from the French Culinary Institute, which helped sculpt the chocolate, said it was quite a challenge.
She said, "You use different tools that's for sure, instead of using little spatulas and little tools, we were using basically the type of tools if you were building a house, you know like we were working with cement." An official from New York's weights and measures department certified the measurements. An appreciative audience of chocolate lovers, including local Girl Scouts and other area children were on hand for the event.
The project was promoting launch of a dark chocolate version of the Hershey's Kisses brand. The gargantuan candy will be displayed at Hershey's headquarters in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Bureau Report