Awesome Chocolate

Design student Milan Miladinov made this intricate model of the Nike Air Max 90 out of chocolate. We’re not sure if it’s life-size, but even if it isn’t, the details make it worth a look. The laces even appear to go through the holes.

My Cupcake Addiction shows us how to make a giant Twix-like chocolate bar. It takes just 30 min., involves no baking or cooking whatsoever and uses just three ingredients: shortbread biscuits, caramel chews and lots of milk chocolate.

There aren’t many things better on this earth than chocolate and sugar. By mixing cane sugar with orange cacao, chili, cinnamon & allspice, chef Suzi Sheffield lets you add a delicious hint of sweet and spicy chocolate to any dish, sweet or savory.

It seems like a simple concept, but its apparently quite tricky to create 1:1 scale edible playthings the way that designer Akihiro Mizuuchi did. We’re guessing that they’d be pretty tricky to build with unless you live in a refrigerator.

Black Chocolate Co. uses a mold cast from an actual human skull to create anatomically correct – and yummy – life-size models. Each skull is made of 3.3lb. of Belgian chocolate. Choose from dark, milk, caramel or chili chocolate.

Combining the art of candymaking with a more traditional medium, Nendo’s edible chocolate paint tubes are filled with delicious “pigments” like strawberry, melon, brandy and blueberry. Too bad they’re only available in Japan.

Possibly the greatest chocolate bar we’ve ever tasted, this Swiss-made Goldkenn chocolate is filled with a real Jack Daniel’s whiskey syrup center with a touch of sugar wrapped around it. And yes, it will get you buzzed.

Twice The Vice are booze-infused chocolates. They come in packs with different themes, including ones that have whiskey-filled chocolates, ones with scotch, tequila and bourbon as well as sweet chick drinks.

Show your girl you seriously love her with this hankie when you take her out this Valentine’s Day that actually blocks cell signals. Includes a dark Mexican chocolate bar for extra Brownie points.

You’ve munched on Sriracha-flavored popcorn and licked Sriracha lollipops. It’s time to confuse your taste buds once again with ThinkGeek’s dark chocolate spiked with the popular chili sauce.

Qzina built this massive sculpture of a Mayan temple using a record-breaking 18,239 pounds of chocolate. It’s on display until December 21, 2012 when the Mayan calendar (or the world) ends.

Feeling like a zombie today? Take a bite of out of one of these tasty handmade chocolate skulls, and recharge with a little sugar fix – or some candy or walnut brains if you really are among the undead.

Crude jokes about Uranus aside, we think these beautifully crafted chocolate planets from L’eclat would be astoundingly fun to eat. Not in Japan? You can get them through this service. (Thanks, Gary!)

If you need some percolating and don’t care for coffee, ThinkGeek’s Caffeinated Chocolate Milk Straws have about 2.5 energy drinks worth of caffeine per straw; add milk and feel the power.

Who doesn’t love fudge? This special stuff is handmade by Coop’s MicroCreamery in Watertown, MA using all natural ingredients like sugar, cream, butter, chocolate, cocoa, molasses and L-O-V-E.

Last Valentine’s Day, Mindaugas Tendziagolskis created a room, including table, chairs, books and other decor from 661 lbs. of chocolate. Now that the display is done, can we eat dessert?

We’re going to be honest here and say that maybe we’d consider tasting some of the outrageous things that epicmealtime has cooked up, but candy bacon chicken heart cupcakes? We’ll take a pass.

Komforte Chocolates rebels against the increasingly upscale chocolate industry, hence the “comfort flavors”, like the Tortilla Lime + Salt bar. We’re not sure about the Ramen-flavored one.

These limited-edition truffles are the perfect gift for the guy with good taste, and a taste for chocolate. Exotic flavors include black truffle, Guinness stout, Macallan whiskey and black sesame + wasabi.

Stumped about what to give your loved ones this Holiday season? Why not design a custom chocolate? Head straight for the “Other” ingredients for really one-of-a-kind results. Yes, there’s bacon.

Break out the curly straws, cookies and shot glasses for Adult Chocolate Milk, with real cream and rich chocolatey taste, but with a very grown-up bonus: a 40 proof alcohol enhancement.

The Tortilla Lime + Salt bar from Komforte Chockolates balances a difficult combo of tangy lime, small tortilla chips bits and a base of rich milk chocolate, all nicely punctuated by a hit of salt.

The only bean-to-bar chocolate maker in NYC, Rick and Michael Mast handcraft all of the chocolate in their store, using unique processes and custom machines. Plus, they’ve got cool beards.