To celebrate World Chocolate Day, we’re sharing footage from a Facebook Live broadcast we recently filmed at The Chocolate Room in Brooklyn, USA.

Danish artisan chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt – sometimes referred to as the Willy Wonka of Connecticut – showed us how to make the world’s Most expensive chocolate.

Fritz Knipschildt

The La Madeline au Truffe retails at $250 apiece, which works out at a whopping $2,600 per lb.

What makes it so expensive? It comprises a rare French Perigord truffle surrounded by ganache of heavy cream, sugar, truffle oil and vanilla coated in 70% Valrhona dark chocolate and rolled in fine cocoa powder.

It’s then presented in a silver box laying on a bed of faux pearls, tied with a ribbon.

Watch the video below to find out how to make this chocoholic extravagance:

Those who don’t wish to splash out $250 for a piece of chocolate may care to know that Mr Knipschildt also makes a box of truffles filled with champagne and coated in flakes of gold which retails at the slightly more reasonable price of $300 per box.

If you're still craving more chocolate, check out our round up of the top 10 most most chocolatey world record titles.