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Chocolate: World Records and Fun Facts

Chocolate records

Step into the world of chocolate records and curiosities.

Who does not love chocolate? Its aroma fascinates us, its taste soothes us and its texture flatters every sense. No wonder it has earned dozens of entries in the Guinness World Records. Here are the most interesting and the most curious chocolate superlatives.

The heaviest first

Chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies dusted with cocoa

Heavyweights

Tonnes of chocolate

The world’s largest chocolate creations, ranked by weight. The length of each bar matches the mass.

  1. Largest piece of chocolate

    13,852.71 kg
    Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA · 2007

    A giant Hershey’s Kiss for the brand’s hundredth birthday. It stood almost four metres tall and was built from chocolate bricks.

  2. Largest chocolate Easter egg

    7,200 kg
    Cortenuova, Italy · 2011

    Made by the Italian company Tosca. At 10.39 metres it also holds the record for the tallest chocolate egg.

  3. Largest chocolate bar

    5,792.5 kg
    Alfreton, United Kingdom · 2011

    British chocolatier Thorntons cast a bar four metres square and 35 centimetres thick.

  4. Largest chocolate rabbit

    4,245.5 kg
    Uberaba, Brazil · 2017

    Nine professionals worked on it for eight days straight. The result was a sculpture 4.52 metres high.

  5. Largest box of chocolates

    2,547.49 kg
    Kansas City, Missouri, USA · 2023

    Forrest Gump would not have balanced this box on his knees. He could have slept in it: it measured 9.27 × 4.69 metres. Russell Stover made it for its centenary.

  6. Largest chocolate truffle

    1,074.33 kg
    Mount Pleasant, Texas, USA · 2017

    Family firm Sweet Shop USA scaled its mint truffle up to more than a tonne.

  7. Largest chocolate mousse

    225.34 kg
    Aventura, Florida, USA · 2013

    Chocolate mousse is light as air. Usually. This one took 49 kg of chocolate, 30 kg of butter, 11 kg of egg yolks, 9 kg of sugar and 47 litres of cream.

Going up

Chocolate skyscrapers

When weight is not enough, people build upwards. For scale, the figure on the far right is a person 1.8 metres tall.

  1. 13.52 m
  2. 12.27 m
  3. 10.39 m
  4. 4.52 m
  5. 1.8 m
A chocolate fountain

Tallest chocolate sculpture

The replica of the Burj Khalifa was made by Andrew Farrugia of Malta. He prepared the pieces at home and assembled them in 2014 at Dubai airport, Terminal 3.

Tallest chocolate fountain

Austrian confectioner Wenschitz built it in Allhaming in 2019. About a tonne of chocolate circulates through it.

And the longest

The same Andrew Farrugia also made the longest chocolate sculpture: a train with 22 carriages measuring 55.27 metres. The record was announced in February 2026.

And the widest

The largest bar by area covers 416.34 m² and was made in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in December 2024. It beat the 383.24 m² Rotterdam record from 2020.

Most expensive

Chocolate at the price of a car

Pralines and pieces of chocolate on a dark surface£6,268.50per kilogram

Most expensive chocolate

It will surprise no one that the Swiss are behind it. La Chuorsa, a bar by Zurich’s Attimo, contains 68% Chuao cocoa from Venezuela, saffron from the Swiss village of Mund and crystallised orange. Eighty grams cost 640 francs.

Chocolate dessert in a glass with whipped cream$25,000per glass

Most expensive dessert

Frrrozen Haute Chocolate has been on the menu at Serendipity 3 in New York since 2007. It blends 28 cocoas and 5 grams of edible 23-karat gold. You take home a gold spoon and a diamond bracelet.

Woman with a Swiss flag eating chocolate in the mountains

Who eats the most

The Swiss, who else

The Swiss do not just make chocolate, they love eating it too. One block stands for one kilogram per person per year.

  1. Switzerland

    10.3 kg

  2. Germany

    about 9.6 kg

Switzerland: 2025, Chocosuisse (10.6 kg the year before). Germany: 2022 estimate, BDSI. A footnote: 41% of the chocolate the Swiss eat is imported.

The bar with the most flavours

300+

KitKat flavours in Japan alone

Most of us know the classic and perhaps the white one. Japan has seen more than three hundred since 2000, including these:

  • wasabi
  • watermelon
  • soy sauce
  • sake
  • miso
  • baked potato
Cacao pods, beans and cocoa powder on a wooden table

1631

The oldest printed recipe

Chocolate on prescription

Europe’s first printed recipe for a chocolate drink was published in Madrid by the Spanish physician Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma. It called for a hundred cacao beans, chilli, anise, cinnamon, almonds, hazelnuts, sugar and achiote. The English translation later appeared as Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke.

Cacao itself is far older: the earliest traces of its use, about 5,300 years old, were found by archaeologists in Ecuador.

Watercolour: squares of chocolate cake with icing
A mug of hot chocolate among pieces of chocolate

Three more numbers

For the collection

  • 6,361.71 l

    Largest cup of hot chocolate

    Made in December 2025 in the Ecuadorian city of Esmeraldas. It beat Mexico’s 4,816.6-litre record from 2018.

  • 770

    Largest collection of chocolate bars

    Some people collect chocolate instead of eating it. American Bob Brown put 770 different bars on display in 2010.

  • 28

    Cocoas in a single glass

    That is how many went into the world’s most expensive dessert. At $25,000 that works out at just under nine hundred each.

Colourful candy-coated chocolates on a dark surface

A record you can try at home

The M&M’s tower

The world record for stacking M&M’s is seven. Ibrahim Sadeq of Iraq set it in 2022 and Australian Brendan Kelbie equalled it two years later. All you need is a steady hand and the patience not to eat them first.

Outside the Guinness book

Records for brave stomachs

On RecordSetter.com anyone can register a record as long as they film it. Chocolate has its own, slightly alarming chapter there.

  1. 18 Snickers bars in one sitting, eaten in September 2016 by Naader Reda of California.
  2. 18 Twix bars, the same Naader Reda, back in January that year.
  3. 15 chocolate mini doughnuts in one minute 15 seconds, Reda again, 2014.
  4. 57.4 seconds was all another record setter needed for the same 15 doughnuts a year later.

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