Wouldn't it be nice if the world were chocolate?

"Wouldn't it be nice if the world were chocolate?" These lyrics from the Cadbury's advert sum up our sentiments here at the CoverGirl women's car insurance office exactly.

Wonderfully, this dream is beginning to be realised thanks to the work of a group of Chinese confectioners who have been re-creating some of China's most famous landmarks out of chocolate.

While many have been given the opportunity to walk the wall of China, none have had the chance, or indeed the desire, to taste it, until now.

Made from solid dark chocolate bricks stuck together with white chocolate 'cement', the wall is the stuff of chocoholics' dreams and no doubt will be a huge attraction at the World Chocolate Wonderland exhibition where it is currently on display.

Although the replica is no where near full size – at 10 metres long it is just a mere dwarf compared with the real thing, it is a pretty impressive miniature with its life-like crumbling section at one end.

Also included in the display is a mini-army of 560 chocolate replicas of the famous Terracotta Warriors standing to attention on a layer of chocolate flakes.

Aimed at encouraging the Chinese to eat more chocolate, an impressive 80 tonnes of it has been used to create the mini masterpieces in the hope of getting some chocolate sales out of the billion-plus consumers in China.

Perhaps a similar idea could be used in the UK with vegetables to encourage the chocolate and fast food-loving Brits to try some more of the green stuff. We want to see Tower Bridge made out of Aubergine!

[Image © Darwin Bell via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence]