A tasty dessert is what motivates you to eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner faster. Desserts are rarely as expensive as a first or second course, and you don't have to take out a bank loan to buy them. Unless, of course, you want to buy one of the rarest and most expensive desserts in the world.
10. La Madeline au Truffle sweets
Price - $ 250 apiece
Chocolate truffles are usually not cheap, but some are obscenely expensive. For example, sweets from the elite confectionery house Knipschildt Chocolatier.
The company describes its products as follows: "The chocolates are made with a gorgeous 70% Valrhona dark chocolate, heavy cream, sugar, truffle butter and vanilla as the base for a sumptuous decadent dessert."
For the manufacture of truffle oil, rare French Perigord truffles are used, which cost a thousand dollars per pound. A beautiful box has been created for each candy to highlight the exclusivity of the dessert.
La Madeline au Truffle cannot be purchased in the store. They are only made to order.
9. Beyond Gourmet Jelly Beans gummies
Price - $ 500
These candies are made with no artificial flavors or colors. Of course, this is not enough to bring the price up to $ 500 per pack. Therefore, each candy was covered with a 24-karat gold wrapper. And the box containing the dessert is made of crystal.
8. The Golden Opulence Sundae Sunday
Price - $ 1000
In honor of its 50th anniversary, the New York restaurant Serendipity 3 presented visitors with a dessert called "Golden Luxury", this is one of the the most expensive dishes in the world.
Thanks to its shocking price, this Sunday even made it into the Guinness Book of Records. Despite the high price tag, the restaurant sells one such dessert a month and is reputedly delicious.
The dessert's ingredients include slices of passionfruit and orange, candied exotic fruits, the world's most expensive chocolate, truffles and five scoops of Tahitian vanilla ice cream topped with 23 carat edible gold leaf. All this is complemented by American golden caviar and gold dragees and poured over with Armagnac.
When you're done eating all this edible luxury, you will receive a gift of the crystal goblet in which the dessert was served.
7. The Golden Phoenix Cupcake
Price - $ 1000
This edible ode to gold in the form of a cupcake can only be found in the lovely little Bloomsbury bakery in the Dubai Mall.
The Golden Phoenix dessert consists of strawberries topped with edible gold, butter from England, chocolate from Italy and vanilla beans from Uganda. The cupcake is wrapped in edible gold foil. The dish is served with a golden spoon decorated with chocolate icing and a basket of whipped cream.
6. Donuts Krispy Kreme's Luxe Donut
Price - $ 1685
In 2014, the Krispy Kreme coffee and confectionery chain introduced the so-called "most expensive" donut in the world. This treat for the taste buds is adorned with 24K gold. The donut also has a gilded white chocolate lotus with a few edible diamonds and a Dom Perignon champagne jelly inside.The donut was served along with a cocktail of Courvoisier de L'Esprit (5th century) cognac, champagne and passionfruit-raspberry syrup.
It is no longer possible to purchase such a dessert, since it was created only once to raise money for the Children’s Trust charity event.
5.Sunday Frrrozen Haute Chocolate Ice Cream Sundae
Price - 25 thousand dollars
One of the most expensive desserts in the world has replaced its predecessor - Golden Opulence Sundae - in the Guinness Book of Records. But not for long.
It consists of 5 grams of 23K edible gold, decorated with La Madeline au Truffle candies (tenth place on the list), and served in a glass decorated with edible gold on the inside. To heighten the effect, this glass is decorated with an 18K gold bracelet with diamonds. And they eat this sandy exclusively with a golden spoon with white and dark diamonds. The client who ordered the dessert can take both the spoon and the glass with him.
4. The Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel Chocolate Pudding
Price - 34 thousand dollars
This dessert was created by Chef Mark Gibert of the Lindeth Howe Country House in England with the sole purpose of becoming the world's most expensive chocolate pudding. The design of the dessert mimics the precious Faberge egg.
The ingredients of the pudding include golden caviar, edible gold, Belgian chocolates and champagne, and this culinary masterpiece is adorned with a 2-carat inedible diamond.
Along with the pudding, the client receives a bottle of Château d'Yquem's “favorite wine of billionaires,” which usually costs about $ 700. The pudding is made to order, and those who want to taste it will have to wait three weeks.
3. Sunday Absurdity Sundae
Price - 60 thousand dollars
The most expensive ice cream dessert in the world consists of bananas and syrups made from rare wines. It is served with a special ice cream spoon made in the 19th century. Under normal conditions, such a dessert costs some $ 3,333.
The reason why this dessert was in the top 3 of the most expensive and rare sweets is due to the special conditions that allow you to enjoy it “right”.
For just $ 60,000, you will be paid tickets to Tanzania and a five-star hotel, then taken to Mount Kilimanjaro, where the founder of Three Twins Ice Cream will serve you a creamy ice cream made using glacial ice collected from the top of the mountain.
You will get truly frosty freshness and heavenly pleasure in exchange for a small mountain of money.
2. Diamond Fruitcake cake
Price - $ 1.72 million
This special fruit cake was created for one of the Takashimai department stores in Tokyo. Its prohibitive cost is due to the presence of 223 diamonds, the total weight of which is 170 carats. Unlike cake, diamonds are inedible.
And the dessert itself is unlikely to be tasted by anyone, because it was created as a work of art and for advertising a department store.
1. Strawberries Arnaud Strawberry Dessert
Price - $ 9.85 million
Here it is, the most expensive of all desserts in the world, called Arno Strawberry. Just imagine that for the money spent on this little strawberry miracle, you can buy two most expensive cars in the world! And there will be more to “wash” the purchase.
If you do choose Arno's Strawberries, you can try it at Arnaud’s restaurant in New Orleans. While the dish comes with local strawberries and regular whipped cream, some additional ingredients live up to the price tag. The most expensive liqueurs and champagne are added for flavoring, and 24-carat gold flakes are used for decoration.
Still not satisfied with the price? In addition to the dessert, you will receive a 10.06-carat diamond ring from the French jewelry boutique MS Rau Antiques.
We hope that after our rating you have an appetite. Don't waste your money on gold-plated desserts when there are plenty of tasty and inexpensive pastries around for every taste.