Food: NES chocolate (updated)

January 12, 2007, 10:32 AM

by brandon, via buttlesscutlass78 -
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Thanks to the Digitalpress forums, we found this auction for one of only three NES cart-shaped chocolates. These are hand-made (with a mold, I presume?), using austrian chocolate. He ships with black ice to southern states where "heat may be an issue." I want that, but you've really got to trust the guy who's making food himself, especially over ebay. P.S. only 140 views as of now.

Update! I got the methodology from the chocolate bar's creator...quite interesting! Here's what he had to say: "I started off by modifying the NES cart to have to voids in it so the mold would not be indented in any way.. I then made a basin a bit bigger than the cart. Mixed up my food grade silicon with food grade hardener at a 10 to 1 ratio. Poured my mold material into the basin, and set the NES cart into the silicon. I then used a vibrating device to relieve most of the air bubbles. I did that for 20 mins, then let the mold dry for 24 hours.

After the 24 hours I removed the modified cart and baked the mold for 4 hours @ 350 degrees. When that was finished i thoroughly cleaned the cart with steam. Then I used an austrian chocolate bar and carefully heated 3/4 of it to 122 degrees to temper it, then the remaining 1/4 was finely chopped and mixed in to bring the temp back down to 83 degrees. It was then poured and once again off to the vibrator. Then it was placed in a freezer that is used only for this process. Let it harden and pull the mold and what you have is the coolest candy bar ever. The whole process from start to finish was 34 hours of planning and building. With the "sweet" reward of having something NES related that no one has ever had."