A life-size chocolate model of a Ferrari Formula 1 car has been unveiled in Italy. Confectioners spent more than a year making the car out of 4,405lbs of Belgian chocolate.

It has now been delivered to Sorrento, near Naples, where it will be the centrepiece of a Ferrari owners club party. Luigi Liberti, president of the Scuderia Ferrari Club Napoli, said: “It will go on display until the weekend and then will be smashed up with hammers and handed out to party guests - they will be given bits of the car to take home in a special bag.”

The £12,000 chocolate Ferrari is based on an F2008, and has a red, edible coating.