Today at 10 a.m. head over to the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers for the unveiling of the biggest Ferris wheel you've ever seen (that's made from sugar). Executive pastry chef Omar Martinez -- the man who created a 400-pound chocolate replica of a King Tut last year -- gets ready to do that feat one better with a nine-and-half-foot-tall, eight-foot-wide replica of the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier.

From the press release:

• The 380-hour culinary labor of love…took an estimated month and a half to complete and consists of the following ingredients:

• 250 lbs. of sugar on the main frame
• Each gondola, 42 in total, weighs 2 lbs., total of 84 lbs.
• Royal icing doubles as glue and hand rails
• 80 lbs. of pastelege used for the base of the wheel
• Miniature golf course is completely made of sugar and consists of an additional 200 lbs. of sugar
• Edible food coloring utilized on all sugar components

But easy there, Little Chrissy--this dessert's strictly for looking at, so no chewing on those gondolas.

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