Ready to drop $49k on a chocolate bunny?

From left: Tobias Kormind of 77 Diamonds, Martin Chiffers and Marcel Knobil of VeryFirstTo with the pricey bunny.source: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/49k-chocolate-easter-bunny-worlds-extravagant/story?id=29841664

by Shelby Kramer, [email protected]

From left: Tobias Kormind of 77 Diamonds, Martin Chiffers and Marcel Knobil of VeryFirstTo with the pricey bunny.source: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/49k-chocolate-easter-bunny-worlds-extravagant/story?id=29841664

Shelby Kramer

Martin Chiffers, world-renowned confectioner and former chef decor of Harrods, has partnered up with the company 77 Diamonds to create something annoyingly magnificent: a $49 thousand chocolate rabbit.

Featuring two 1.7-carat diamond eyes and gold-leaf painted eggs, this bunny is more than more people can afford to swallow. And that’s disregarding the fact that the statue is 15 inches high and weighs about 11 pounds.

The rabbits will be made-to-order through VeryFirstTo, and they take about two days to dish up. The process is simple: carve the rabbit from a block of 75 percent Tanzanian chocolate, set in the diamond eyes and decorate the eggs with gold leaf.

Worry not about eating the whole thing in one sitting because the statue can be reportedly kept at 16 degrees for up to two years, which helps the “eating it” part as the rabbit is estimated to contain more than 548,000 calories.

ABC News reports that Chiffers said he’s “delighted to be working … on such a glamorous item which is certainly a culinary phenomenon.” Chiffers said he’s “accustomed to teaching about and creating extravagant luxury chocolate pieces, [but] incorporating diamonds is a first.”

source: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/49k-chocolate-easter-bunny-worlds-extravagant/story?id=29841664