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$10K Chocolate Easter Egg on Display at UWS Candy Shop

By Emily Frost | March 25, 2015 11:29am
 The egg weighs 45 pounds and measures 3 feet tall. 
$10K Easter Egg at Sugar & Plumm
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UPPER WEST SIDE — That's some eggs-pensive chocolate.

A Easter egg constructed using 45 pounds of Peruvian chocolate is now on display at the Amsterdam Avenue candy shop Sugar & Plumm — with an eye-popping price tag of $10,000.

But the massive, 3-foot-tall egg isn't for eating. It's protected by a glass case inside the shop at West 78th Street and features a sign urging customers to move cautiously around it.

"This is a work of art," Sugar & Plumm president and CEO Lamia Jacobs said of the conspicuous confection.

The egg, which sits on a high shelf above the store's chocolate rabbits, chocolate Eiffel Towers and chocolate shells, is not technically for sale, she noted. 

Since it went on display Monday, however, she's had an offer from at least one customer, whom Jacobs had to turn down.

The store put the cost of the egg at $10,000 based on the sheer amount of Peruvian chocolate needed to construct it, as well as the expertise of the chocolate makers involved. 

Sugar & Plumm's master chocolatier, Thierry Atlan, and his deputy, Antoine Tremblay, worked around the clock for two weeks in early March to build the egg, Jacobs explained. 

More than a dozen colorful chocolate ladybugs and bumblebees hang off the sides of the egg and are meant to symbolize spring, she added. 

The egg will stay at the store through Easter before heading to Sugar & Plumm's Moonachie, N.J., confectionery, where it will live alongside other chocolate figurines and sculptures.

"We maintain it... we give it a shine every six months," Jacobs said of the post-Easter care. 

The French chocolatiers are next planning a massive chocolate Statue of Liberty, she added. 

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