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In honor of his hundredth chocolate creation!

Amaury "Chocolate Guy" Guichon is undoubtedly an extremely skilled sculptor in chocolate but I think my favorite thing about a lot of his videos is the effort he puts into putting actual dessert food under the sculpture work

So many of his desserts & pastries have at least 5 layers of different textures & flavors. Fruit jams, caramel, cake, creams, mousse, cookies, meringue, crumb layers etc

That's what makes his work truly impressive to me, especially as someone who quickly got tired of the "knife that turns everything into cake" thing, where it was all basic chocolate cake buried under 13 layers of fondant

It takes amaury's work from an impressive stunt to "if I ate that, it would probably be the best thing I'd eat in my whole life"

...he is weaving the chocolate. Do you copy, this bitch is WEAVING CHOCOLATE

Mr Chocolate Guy really is out there doing Things huh

Also, rendition of how to enjoy this piece:

Did you know that there's another Chocolate Guy called Kris Zhaokai?

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Guys… you’re not gonna fucking believe this one

“Oh, he did not just…”

Yes, he did. 

Get the fuck outta here

This man is the modern day equivalent of the clockwork masters who made strange, intricate wind-up toys for extremely wealthy people.  Exceptionally talented, astonishingly inventive, brilliantly skilled, and the pinnacle of craftsmanship that serves to astonish and delight.

CHOCOLATE FUCKER’S BACK ON HIS BULLSHIT

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To me, what really separates Chocolate Guy from all the other “surprise it’s a cake” people is…. I want to eat his stuff. It’s not foam-cake covered in fondant, it’s sixteen kinds of chocolate over delicate wafers and juicy compotes and mousse-you-can-feel-by-seeing and I Want To Eat It All. (Like, I might feel bad taking a bite out of, say, his beautiful telescope, but if I had the chance I would be all over it.)

These mushrooms? I’d pop like six of them if given the chance.