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Without being grossly stereotypical, there’s possibly only one thing women are as known to love as much as shoes…chocolate! How strange then, that nobody has even come up with the concept of combing the two…oh wait…

Would you believe it if I told you somebody (a cake maker, in fact) has actually launched a range of chocolate designer shoes? No? I’m not surprised, but it doesn’t stop the story being true; Frances Cooley found a chocolate shoe mould in Belgium and BAM, that’s all the inspiration she needed to create her own brand of chocolate shoes. Crazy? Apparently not, as the shoes have been “selling like hot cakes” according to Frances – and she’d know, what with having quit her job as a graphic designer to become a cake-maker!

The process involved in the shoe-making sounds quite simple, but is almost certainly harder than you’d expect. She starts by piping design into the shoe-mould and then fills it with tempered Belgian chocolate. Once cooled, she pours out the excess and leaves it to set, before hand-decorating each one. When they are complete, she sells them in over 25 delicatessens and boutiques (including Liberty luxury department store) for £8.50 for a small pair or £21 for a single large shoe.

I love it!