We've seen all kinds of eggs making their way through the wood work over the last few weeks, but Guinness have definitely topped the table with their reasonably priced egg, with mini Guinness pints that will surely be eaten all in one sitting.

The egg itself is made out of welded steel (not chocolate!), while the painted shell is made from a sandwich of foam and resin-impregnated canvas. Both the structure and the shell were built in four separate sections which were then fitted together for the official record attempt and unveiling on 9 March.The Casa do Chocolate team hired nine chocolatiers to work for eight consecutive days on the chocolate sculpture. The egg was created as part of Pomerode's annual Easter festival. It was painted in the style of Kashubian folk art and designed by a local artist. Weighing exactly 4,245.5 kg, it took nine professionals more than eight days to complete the spectacular sculpture but there’s just one question remaining – is it too cute to eat? Largest Easter Egg Tree Records change on a daily basis and are not immediately published online. For a full list of record titles, please use our Record Application Search. (You will need to register / login for access)

While the prices on some products varied from store to store, we used the lowest price point we could find as a basis for our calculations. He told the Irish Mirror: “The choices and the range of price points for Easter eggs have increased dramatically in recent years. A medium Maynard’s Wine Gums heritage egg, currently €3 in SuperValu, works out at €1.85 per 100 grams. It was created by William Curley, Amy Rose Curley, Alistair Birt, Sarah Frankland, Melissa Paul, Rhiann Mead (all UK) and Suzue Curley (Japan). It was sold at the Royal Courts of Justice, London, UK, on 20 March 2012.Beautifully engraved, surprisingly cheap and very tasty too. Aldi have outdone themselves. 1. Morrisons King Of Eggs (800g) The egg stood at 15.02 m (49 ft 3 in) tall and 8.72 m (28 ft 7 in) in diameter after a 48-day build. Lily O'Briens always bring their A-game when it comes to Easter and this white chocolate and cookie effort is no exception. The artist Silvana Pujol, born in Pomerode, developed her very own style of painting eggshells (from hummingbirds to ostriches), and her work became iconic of eggshell painting - not only in Pomerode, but in the entire country and even abroad."

Made from Amedei Chocolate, filled with truffles and couture chocolates and decorated with gold leaf, 12 smaller chocolate eggs, five white flowers and 20 mini chocolate bars, the egg took just three days to make, weighed more than 50 kg (110.23 lbs) and was approximately 107 cm (3 ft 6.13 in) tall and 54 cm (1 ft 9.26 in) wide. Earliest Hollow Chocolate Easter Egg An egg hunt is a classic Easter tradition, so why not combine some holiday fun with a world record attempt? That’s exactly what the folks at the Cypress Gardens Adventure Park in Winter Haven, Florida, USA, did when they took it upon themselves to organise the world’s largest Easter egg hunt.If you want to see the largest Easter egg in the world, you’ll need to head over to the Port Aventura theme park, situated between Salou and Tarragona in southern Catalonia, Spain. Crowned the world’s largest decorated Easter egg by Guinness World Records, it stands at a whopping 15.98 m (52.43 ft) tall and 10.65 m (34.94 ft) in diameter and features a range of blue, red, green, yellow and gold patterns.

Creating an Easter egg tree is a great way for communities to celebrate the holiday, but you’ll need to start early if you want to stand a chance of taking the title of the world’s largest Easter egg tree. The current reigning champion featured a staggering 82,404 painted hen eggs and was created to celebrate Osterfest in Pomerode, Brazil.

EASTER is almost upon us and while the long weekend will be a time of religious contemplation for many, it’s also an occasion to indulge in the sweetest of sweet treats: chocolate. The tallest chocolate Easter egg measured 10.39 m (34 ft 1.05 in) and had a circumference of 19.6 m (64 ft 3.65 in) at its widest point and was made by Tosca (Italy). It was measured at Le Acciaierie Shopping Centre, in Cortenuova, Italy on 16 April 2011. The chocolate Easter egg weighed 7,200 kg (15,873) and had a circumference of 19.6 m (64 ft 3.65 in) at its widest point. The highest altitude by a single kite was achieved by Richard P Synergy (Canada) after achieving an altitude of approximately 4,422 m (14,509 ft) above the point of take-off on 12 August 2000 near Kincardine, Ontario, Canada.