While American children content themselves with hunting for dyed eggs and chocolate Easter Bunnies, French children (and probably some adults) have their choice of a myriad of elaborate chocolate sculptures.
All the chocolateries in town are decked out for the holiday, with many dozens of chocolate eggs, fish (?), chickens, and whatever other chocolate shapes struck the chocolatier’s fancy.
At work, we’ve had the chocolate melters (like industrial-strength chafing dishes) going nonstop for weeks now. The new chocolate walk-in has been loaded up with half-eggs, bird parts, and other bits and pieces to be glued together with more chocolate to produce montage after edible montage.
So here are some pictures of the fruits of my labor over the last month or so. This week has been long, putting the finishing touches on the chocolate sculptures in time for Easter. (This is the part where I apologize for the crappy pictures – they were taken in haste, at work, while trying not to get too much chocolate on my camera.) When I was making the Bunny-in-Car pieces, I was roundly criticized for putting the names of cities like Boston and Sydney on the road signs, because you can’t drive to those places.
Remember Les Schtroumpfs? Here’s what became of them:
RSS - Posts
Ab
Ac
