Looks good enough to eat

Three-year-old Casey Dodd, of Clinton, could not believe her eyes when she got to peek in the window of the chocolate house during the Cadbury Chocolate Fun Day at the Golden Centre, Meridian and Wall Street malls on Saturday.

• Breathing life into chocolate creations

A steady stream of families took the opportunity to visit the chocolate-painted house which was designed and built by the Otago Polytechnic and furnished with chocolate art by British food artist Prudence Staite.

Cadbury events co-ordinator Lee-Anne Anderson said a conservative estimate indicated from 10am to 3pm on Saturday, 5500 people went through the chocolate house, but as the queues still wound around the house they kept it open until 5pm with visitors estimated to be 7500 for the day.

Combined with Prudence Staite's sculpture demonstration and the Crocodettes, she believed about 10,000 people would have visited the three malls on Saturday.