A Whitley Bay café has created a chocolate egg so big that you’d need to melt it into thousands of hot chocolates to polish it off - and this gigantic Easter treat could be yours.
Eden’s Café in Whitley Bay has created the enormous egg to give away to one lucky customer via a raffle, with the funds going towards the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
2022 marks the fourth time that the café has crafted a giant egg for a good cause - and it’s a welcome return, having created the gigantic Easter treat every year since they opened until Covid put plans to a halt in 2020 and 2021.
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The egg is put together by Rob Eden-Bagley in the café using a whopping 10 kilograms of Belgian chocolate, with at least five layers of chocolate in each half of the giant mould.
It’s a process that “takes years of practice”, according to chocolatier Rob, involving a race against the clock to temper the chocolate before it sets.
Then comes the painstaking moment where the egg has to come out of the mould. In previous years the egg has cracked or broken at the last second, meaning that Rob had to start all over again - but this year it luckily only took one attempt.
The egg takes between three and five days to make, and Rob estimates that the winner of the egg could use the chocolate to make between three and four thousand cups of hot chocolate.
The last giant egg raffle raised £2,500 for the RNLI. Adrian Don, spokesperson for the RNLI, said that the charity is “extremely grateful” for the café’s efforts.
Adrian says that the raffle will help to raise “much-needed funds to keep our lifeboats at sea”, as well as going towards training for volunteers and protective equipment, and will be put to use locally at the RNLI’s lifeboat station in Tynemouth.
Eden’s Café celebrated its sixth birthday on 7 March, and has become a popular spot in Whitley Bay for its wide selection of cakes, which are all handmade in-house by Rob.
Customers are spoilt for choice when it comes to patisserie at the café, from cheesecake in a variety of flavours to a range of tarts including lemon, pecan, and Bakewell, as well as patisserie platters and skewers.
The café also offers more than twenty different types of hot chocolate, from invigorating flavours like chilli and peppermint to boozy options including Baileys and Tia Maria.
The raffle to determine the winner of the egg will be drawn on Easter Saturday at the café, and the winner will also receive a £500 voucher from Hays Travel.
Watch the video above to get a look behind the scenes at the making of the giant Easter egg.
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