Yorkshire baker sparks global craze for decorating Terry's Chocolate Oranges

Cake decorator Chelle Holmes, 42, has previously turned the traditional Christmas treat into edible unicorns, pumpkins and even the Grinch using her icing skills.

This year orders for her first three batches of grey, bearded edible "gonks" - gnome-like characters that she sells for £10 each - sold out in just 40 minutes.

Chelle now has to make 150 of the five-inch high figures in time for Christmas, with painstaking accuracy and attention to detail.

She uses icing for all of the intricate decoration to make the fur, beard and woolly hat that the festive favourites wear.

Chelle began decorating Terry's Chocolate Oranges in icing a few years ago and posting pictures in various online cake decorating groups.

But she is amazed it has suddenly taken off this year.

She said: "I sell them every year, but I have never sold so many and they have sold out very quickly.

"I have had to stop taking orders now or I won't have time to do anything else.

"I suppose the appeal is the novelty factor. I did pumpkins for Halloween, I've done little unicorns and stuff, but people have gone crazy for the gonks.

"People love a Terry's Chocolate Orange at Christmas and to have it decorated rather than just popped into a stocking is something people seem to like.

"It's a bit of fun and not too expensive and they are cute."