This Saturday at the Muelle de España in Barcelona, pastry chef Christian Escribà and his team presented an Easter cake dedicated to the Sailing America's Cup, a life-size reproduction of the prestigious trophy. The city will host the competition in the autumn and there are more and more events related to one of the most important international sporting events in the world.
Escribà has been accompanied by the mayor Jaume Collboni and the Councilor for Sports, David Escudé. The monkey is a life-size sculpture of the trophy, measuring one meter and ten centimeters, for which 30 kilos of dark chocolate have been used. A team led by Christian and Pol Escribà, with Daniel Domínguez heading the chocolate department, have invested 18 hours in overcoming a challenge for which they had the help of the International Advanced Manufactoring 3D Hub, which carried out an exact reconstruction of the trophy molds. in 3D, from those who were creating the structure. A construction that required the skill and craftsmanship of hand-molding the chocolate to reproduce the moldings and filigree that the original cup has.
During the presentation, Escribà highlighted the city's ability to celebrate international events such as the Copa del América, in which the world will discover Barcelona's passion for maintaining traditions rooted in society such as building dreams in chocolate. .
