The world's most EXTREME Christmas food

Largest chocolate Santa

Executive pastry chef Laurent Branlord made this huge chocolate Santa Claus for a display at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Florida. It weighs 1,200lbs (around 544kg), contains 2,956,818 calories and took 300 hours to finish. A spokesperson from Disney told Yahoo! that every year Laurent Branlord creates an extra chocolate figure to add the to display and this year it was the giant nutcracker to Santa’s right. Bet you’d struggle to get that in your stocking.

The World’s ‘Most Precious’ Christmas Pudding

After offering a £125,000 four-course Christmas dinner last year, luxury website VeryFirstTo.com have something very special on offer this year: the world’s most precious Christmas pudding. The £23,500 pud, which will serve 12 people, is to be created by pastry chef Martin Chiffers. Ingredients include a 200-year old Cognac (costing £10,890 per bottle), Agawa dates, Mamra almonds and other fine alcohols and organic ingredients. And for luck? A gold Henry VI coin depicting the Angel Gabriel and Virgin Mary - the coin alone is worth £7,500.

Christmas dinner every day

Christmas dinner is arguably one of the most extravagant meals of the year. Turkey, Brussels, all the trimmings - but imagine tucking in to it every single day. That’s what Wiltshire’s Andy Park claims to have done since 1994. He told the Daily Mail: ‘I’ll never forget the day it started... I was just feeling fed up and bored, so I went home and put the decorations up. Suddenly I was happy. I thought ‘this is fun’. So I did it again the next day, and the day after that.’ Andy reckons over the years he’s eaten over 5,000 turkeys, more than 28,000 roast potatoes and 94,000 mince pies.

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World’s longest yule log cake

Created in 2011 at the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai, this yule log clocked in at a whopping 1,068 metres long. CNN Travel reported at the time that it took 80 pastry chefs and 150 hotel staff to finish making it, and the job was completed in just 24 hours. The recipe included 904 eggs, 34kg vanilla and 401kg chocolate. After being photographed and measured by Guinness World Records, the cake was cut into squares and sold, the proceeds going to charity.

The Oldest Christmas Pudding in the World

This Christmas pudding was donated to the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, in 2011. It’s still in its decorative tin, and bears the message ‘For The Naval Brigade in the Front, With Miss Weston’s Best Christmas and New Year, 1900, Wishes.‘ The pudding is thought to be one of the puds sent to the navy during the Boer War to ‘cheer the hearts of the brave boys at Christmas and the New Year’. Agnes Weston was a campaigner for the welfare of sailors and was referred to as ‘Mother of the Navy’. The Christmas pudding has never been opened and the museum has said that it’s likely to remain closed, ‘to preserve it as an artefact’.

The £3,000 mince pie

Chef Andrew Stellitano created this mince pie in 2011, using incredibly exotic ingredients such as holy water from Lourdes and platinum leaf. The Daily Mail reported that the pie also contained ambergris sugar, ‘derived from sperm whale secretions’ and the fancy design on top was cut using a laser. In true Christmas tradition, the pie also contained a platinum ‘lucky’ coin. 

The 4,200kg Stollen

Yes, that’s a stollen in that wagon. The cake broke records when it was made in 2000, for the 7th Annual Dresden Stollen Festival, in Germany. It weighed 4,200kgs and was paraded through the streets in a horse-drawn wagon, before being cut into portions, using a special 1.2m long knife. It took more than 80 bakers to make the stollen, which contained 44 litres of Jamaican rum, 1.5 tons of flour and 455kg sugar.