BRUSSELS, April 3 -- The 40 leading patisserie chefs and chocolatiers in Belgium came together to showcase artisanal chocolate with Easter egg-themed edible artworks in the country's capital on Wednesday.

Bel'Oeuf is an initiative by Belgian chocolatier Marc Ducobu in collaboration with Carlo Ferrigno, the manager of Hotel Amigo, a luxury hotel near the Brussels town hall in the historic Gothic Grand-Place square.

The fourth annual event's theme was "fun in movement", with sculptures in the shape of rocket ships, carriages, and hot-air balloons, some taking up to 25 hours to complete and using up to 18 kilograms of chocolate.

"Chocolate in a way, it's a medium that you can sculpt with," said Michael Lewis-Anderson, a British-Belgian pa...