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   World’s most expensive chocolate egg for auction in Platres    
   By Anna Hassapi   
      
   A CHOCOLATE workshop in Platres village is preparing for an Easter egg charity   
   auction with a show-stopping egg valued at €25,000.    
      
   The egg has attracted the attention of the Guinness Book of Records for   
   ratification as the most expensive chocolate Easter egg ever made.   
      
   “Our showstopper will be decorated with a four carat diamond pendant, one   
   carat diamond ring, rubies, emeralds, some sapphire and amethysts,” said John   
   Adams, who owns and runs the Chocolate Workshop in Platres with his wife   
   Efpraxia Perdiou.   
      
   This egg will in fact be the first of its kind. “No one has ever made a   
   chocolate Easter egg with diamonds. The closest thing is the Faberg? egg, but   
   that’s porcelain. We were inspired by Faberg? to make this, but ours is made   
   of chocolate, not porcelain.   
    So there isn’t anything like it – we are setting the benchmark for luxury   
   chocolate eggs,” said Efpraxia Perdiou.   
      
   Guinness Book of Records will be present at the auction in Platres to ratify   
   the egg. “We contacted the Guinness Book of Records and they have approved our   
   attempt. An official Guinness Book photographer will be present at the auction   
   to take a picture    
   of the egg.    
      
   Independent professional valuers will also be present,” Adams explained.   
      
   “At the auction, there will be a reserve on the big one, set at €15,000. A   
   number of people have already expressed interest and have said they will bid   
   on it. No reserve will be set for the other eggs,” he added.   
      
   The Chocolate Workshop plans to specialise in chocolate cups with traditional   
   Cypriot fillings. “All of our chocolate cups are hand made and filled with   
   traditional Cypriot ingredients such as zivania, commandaria, glyko, Cyprus   
   coffee and palouze,”    
   Adams explained.   
      
   The auction will take place on Saturday, April 5 at 3.30pm and will mark the   
   Chocolate Workshop’s official opening. The workshop’s owners plan to establish   
   the charity Easter egg auction as an annual event. In addition to the   
   showstopper, bidders can    
   choose between a giant one-meter high chocolate egg and a variety of other   
   delicacies.   
      
   All profit from the auction will go to the Sirius Dog Foundation, which   
   operates a dog shelter in the Limassol district.   
      
      
      
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   World’s most expensive chocolate egg for    
   auction in Platres 
By Anna    
   Hassapi
   
   
A CHOCOLATE workshop in Platres village is   
   preparing    
   for an Easter egg charity auction with a show-stopping egg valued at €25,000.    
   

The egg has attracted the attention of the Guinness Book of Records   
   for    
   ratification as the most expensive chocolate Easter egg ever made.

“Our    
   showstopper will be decorated with a four carat diamond pendant, one carat    
   diamond ring, rubies, emeralds, some sapphire and amethysts,” said John Adams,    
   who owns and runs the Chocolate Workshop in Platres with his wife Efpraxia    
   Perdiou.

This egg will in fact be the first of its kind. “No one has   
   ever    
   made a chocolate Easter egg with diamonds. The closest thing is the Faberg?   
   egg,    
   but that’s porcelain. We were inspired by Faberg? to make this, but ours is   
   made    
   of chocolate, not porcelain. So there isn’t anything like it – we are setting    
   the benchmark for luxury chocolate eggs,” said Efpraxia Perdiou.   
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Guinness    
   Book of Records will be present at the auction in Platres to ratify the egg.   
   “We    
   contacted the Guinness Book of Records and they have approved our attempt. An    
   official Guinness Book photographer will be present at the auction to take a    
   picture of the egg. 

Independent professional valuers will also be    
   present,” Adams explained.

“At the auction, there will be a reserve on    
   the big one, set at €15,000. A number of people have already expressed   
   interest    
   and have said they will bid on it. No reserve will be set for the other eggs,”    
   he added.

The Chocolate Workshop plans to specialise in chocolate cups    
   with traditional Cypriot fillings. “All of our chocolate cups are hand made   
   and    
   filled with traditional Cypriot ingredients such as zivania, commandaria,   
   glyko,    
   Cyprus coffee and palouze,” Adams explained.

The auction will take   
   place    
   on Saturday, April 5 at 3.30pm and will mark the Chocolate Workshop’s official    
   opening. The workshop’s owners plan to establish the charity Easter egg   
   auction    
   as an annual event. In addition to the showstopper, bidders can choose between   
   a    
   giant one-meter high chocolate egg and a variety of other delica   
   ies.

All    
   profit from the auction will go to the Sirius Dog Foundation, which operates a    
   dog shelter in the Limassol district.
   
   
   
   
Copyright © Cyprus Mail    
   2008
   
      
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