14 DAY TRIAL // A British chip shop owner has created the world’s largest deep-fried Ferrero Rocher which weighs in at 5 kg (11 pounds), and to make it more special, he cooked it in batter.
The popular chocolate treat normally consists of a whole roasted hazelnut enclosed in a thin wafer shell filled with hazelnut cream and covered in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts.
John Clarkson, the owner of the Mister Eater's Eating Emporium in Preston, has a chocolate obsession and decided to make his very own version of the sweet. He was inspired to make the whopping 5kg (11 pounds) treat after a standard-sized batch proved a big hit with his customers.
Typically, the sweets each contain 73 calories, and are individually packaged inside a gold-colored wrapper. But this huge hazelnut chocolate is ten times the size of a normal Ferrero Rocher and contains more than 25,000 calories.
“We sourced a secret Ferrero Rocher recipe from America to allow us to make a large quantity and then form it into a large ball. Making the ball was not hard but other steps along the way were more challenging,” Clarkson’s wife Corinne said, according to Metro.
“They love it - it draws a bit of a chuckle but some people have tried scraps of the mixture and they have said it's delicious,” she added.
John has become famous for his crazy creations after also making the world's longest battered sausage for Valentine's Day and supporting a fundraising campaign for the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer by encouraging women to bring their bras to be filled with chips.