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Now this is a room where I want to live. But only for a while.

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, Kaliningrad Plaza, a shopping mall in Kaliningrad, Russia with the help of Lithuanian ad agency Ad Hunters, commissioned an artist to create a room entirely of chocolate. Elena Climent carved out 420 kilograms of dark, milk and white chocolate. The delectable-looking room which measures around 20 square meters has furniture made of chocolate – sofa, carpet and table. Cutlery were also made of chocolate, including candle holders and flowers. The said room is made up of 40% dark chocolate, 40% milk chocolate and 20% white chocolate.

This mouthwatering room was broken in small pieces on November 18 and were given away to visitors of the place.

Here are some photos:

Using white chocolate, premier chocolatier Mirco Della Vechia creates stunning replicas of world heritage monuments. He has used huge blocks of chocolates and fine carving tools to make sweet models of famous landmarks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Stonehenge, the Parthenon, Colosseum and many others.

Mirco Della Vechia is also a Guinness record holder for the largest chocolate sculpture in the world which is the replica of the Dome of Milan. It is a sweet treat which is 1.5-meter-tall, 2.5-meter-long and 5.37-ton-heavy. Take a look":

Thanks to the Husband, I have been feasting on this for two months now:

And I don’t feel even a twinge of guilt simply because based on what I read, dark chocolate is good in improving the health of my heart plus it lowers my blood pressure and reduce my LDL cholesterol. It also helps increase the flow of blood to my brain. Moreover, it helps improve my mood and concentration because it boosts my serotonin and endorphin levels.

Well, I have been a chocoholic as far as I can remember. I eat any kind of chocolate  – dark, milk chocolate, with fruits and  nuts and what-have-yous. Just don’t give me the white chocolate ones because they don’t look and taste like chocolates to me!