When designing your superhero outfit, it’s important to select the proper material. After spandex and chrome, chocolate leaps to mind immediately. Sure it's tasty, but will it protect you in battle? Last weekend, a group of pastry chefs took on crimefighting fashion's ultimate challenge: cooking up cocoa costumes that look as sweet as they taste.

Sixty chocolatiers and pastry chefs from around the world participated in the 11th annual New York Chocolate Show, which always features a fashion show of chocolate-based couture. This year’s theme was superheroes, so the chefs plastered elaborate, skin-tight outfits to their patient models. Unfortunately, wearing a chocolate bodysuit can be fairly physically taxing, as one model learned while dressed as Leeloo from The Fifth Element:

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