Chocolate

Work has been really busy lately because we had a stand at an expo in Sydney this week, and I’ve been running around like crazy getting things sorted. One of the main things that I had to organise was a give-away for the show – something that would make people come over and talk to the guys.
This is what I ended up with:




That is one seriously big block of chocolate.
Naturally, because the block was such a huge novelty, the guys got excited about the chocolate and ended up giving away not just one, but five of these enormous hunks of chocolaty goodness. Once they got back to Melbourne, I discovered that the name on top of the winners list was mine – the boss had decided that since I came up with such a fantastic idea, I should get to have one.

It was all very nice of him, but while I may be addicted to many and varied things, chocolate just isn’t one of them. Now if it had been a 10kg box of jelly-belly jellybeans that might have been a different story...

So this morning, we called everyone into the office and I officially opened the enormous box and dished out large hunks of chocolate to everyone who works in the building. It seemed like a good way to reduce the vast quantity of chocolate, but in fact, after handing out large slabs to everyone, I still have most of the thing left. What am I going to do with 8kg of chocolate?!
As I see it, these are my options so far:

• Melt it down and mould a small house, Hansel & Gretel witch style.
• Bake a really, really, really, really big chocolate cake.
• Eat until I lapse into a diabetic coma.
• Melt it down and use one of the fountains in the Carlton Gardens that they’ve had to shut off due to drought to make the world’s biggest chocolate fountain.
• Give it away.

What to do, what to do....
All ideas are welcome. It’s a lot of chocolate so chances are I can do more than one of these things with it.