Chocolate chef Amaury Guichon takes sweet second record with gigantic banana sculpture

Getting your five a day is surely way more appealing when the fruit is actually a gigantic record-breaking chocolate sculpture.

This massive banana was made entirely of the sweet stuff by chef and social media star Amaury Guichon (France).

Measured by Official Adjudicator Will Munford in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on 27 May, it became the largest chocolate sculpture of fruit with measurements of 66 in (167.64 cm) x 29.57 in (75.1 cm).

The sculpture depicts a partly peeled banana that’s had the tip dipped in chocolate, and it’s particularly impressive when you see it next to an actual banana for scale.

Amaury, a seasoned pastry chef and chocolatier, has become well known around the world for his masterful manipulation of chocolate.

His tasty creations have seen him amass millions of followers on social media.

He’s made just about anything you can imagine from chocolate, including car tyres, rubber duckies, screwdrivers and even the house from Up.

Explaining his process, he told us: “There are a handful of us chefs in the world able to craft chocolate at that scale. Not only is the material very precious and expensive, but it requires a lot of work, year after year, to be able to master it enough to bend it to your will.

“The difficulty is that chocolate, being so unique, can present itself under a liquid form and a solid form at the exact same temperature, which makes it harder to work with but also opens up possibilities.

Will Munford presents Chef Amaury with his certificate

“What I’ve been doing over the last decade is trying to find technique and method to make this simple, beautiful material into pieces of art.”

Amaury has worked long and hard to get to the point he’s at today.

“The first few years of doing it, it was a lot of trial and error, now I have a little bit of a better 3D vision,” he explained.

“The moulds I use are usually very basic – an egg shape, a round shape, a pot – and then it’s really the assembly and putting it together that turns it into an art piece, but I don’t like to use too much of an intricate mould.”

This big banana isn’t Amaury’s first record-breaking creation.

He features within the pages of Guinness World Records 2025 with his largest chocolate sculpture of a balloon animal.

His tasty artwork of a balloon dog was made entirely from chocolate and sprayed pink with a cocoa butter and colourant mix.

It measured 1.60 m x 1.62 m (5.24 ft x 5.31 ft).

He said as he saw himself in the book: “It’s awesome. I’ll tell you, I was not a very book-driven kid but I always had every single edition of Guinness World Records and I remember just being wowed by the extravagance of the world.

“So, being featured doing what I do and what I love doing is a very beautiful feeling.”

And when asked if he’ll break more records in the future, he added: “I think now we’re on a roll. This is just the second one and I hope there will be many more to come.”