Yes, chocolate LEGO is a thing!

Earlier this week I stumbled across an interesting article (on news.com.au) about a Japanese designer who has answered every man and woman's dream by combining LEGO... and chocolate. It had me at LEGO, but the chocolate kept me reading.

That's right. Akhiro Mizuuchi has brought together the world's two big loves and designed a modular system for creating edible chocolate bricks. Once cooled they can be made into some really awesome creations - like chocolate LEGO teddy bears (well at least I think they're teddy bears). TAKE MY MONEY!

I've done some more research, and it turns out that Mizuuchi and friends re-create popular Japanese anime characters out of chocolate every Valentine's Day. He designed each character in LEGO bricks on his computer first, which allowed him to calculate which parts he required and in what quantities.

Mizuuchi, an illustrator, designer, and university lecturer told design magazine Dezeen, "On Valentine's Day this year, I decided to make a lot of chocolate LEGO and then assemble the characters".

Forming his moulds around real LEGO pieces, they were used to make dark, milk, white, and strawberry chocolate building blocks.

Four for you Mizuuchi, you go Mizuuchi.