Chocolate, gold, champagne and caviar: The world’s most expensive dessert has them all
If you’ve got a sweet tooth and a bottomless bank account, this dessert might be for you. I hope you like $35,000 pudding.
The English Lake District's Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel head chef Marc Guibert recently created a yet-unnamed pudding that knocked New York's Serendipity 3's $25,000 Frrozen Haute Chocolate off the most-expensive-dessert throne — by an impressive $10,000.
Served inside an edible golden Faberge-egg replica, Guibert’s layered pudding concoction has some of the world’s most expensive ingredients — yes, this would qualify as 24-karat cuisine — including four types of high-quality Belgian chocolate, champagne caviar, champagne jelly, edible-gold-laced biscuits and is finished with edible gold leaf.
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The concoction is topped off with an 18-karat rose gold ring set with a 2.62-karat chocolate-coloured diamond, designed by Wave Jewellery owner and designer Paul Henderson, because…why not? (No, diamonds should not be eaten. And, yes, the ring can be fitted to your hand after dinner.)
Priced at a staggering £22,000 ($35,000 USD), it will make the Guinness Book of World Records once it gets its first buyer.
Tempted to splurge? Your dessert is served with strawberry caviar.
“If that’s not enough luxury, the dessert comes with one of the finest and most expensive bottles of dessert wine — Chateau d’Yquem, which is priced at around 500 pounds ($788) per bottle,” Forbes reports.
The dessert also includes a complimentary night’s stay at Lindeth Howe and an evening meal, so at least you’ll have a place to stay after traveling all that way for a golden egg.
Consider wearing this thematically appropriate scarf as you dine.
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