The following ...expensive... desserts can cost more than most men make in a lifetime. While they may or may not taste like a slice of heaven, you can probably buy your way through the pearly gates – and get platinum angel wings- for LESS. Check this out…
1. Chocolate Variation – $640
For those with genuine champagne tastes, The Lebua Hotel at State Tower offers a dessert with you in mind. The base (strawberry chocolate mousse adorning chocolate cake) is common to a commoner’s dessert. It’s the adornments (champagne sherbet, crème brûlée with Perigord truffles, gold-flecked leaves for garnish) that put it in the lap… or on the plate… of luxury. Don’t expect to experience this caliber of decadence on a “beer budget”; a single slice has a price tag of $640.
2. Noka Chocolate, Vintage Collection $854 per pound
Noka Chocolate is known for its pure, deep and almost-sensuous chocolates. Their team uses cocoa from every corner of the world, anywhere from Cote d’ Ivoire to the farmlands of Ecuador. Chocolate connoisseurs call Noka chocolates the best in the world, head and shoulders over other premium varieties like Lindt and Tolberone. The vintage collection, which is the dark chocolate collection, is as rich in taste as in price; a pound of chocolate doesn’t leave the shop for under $854.
3. Golden Opulence Sundae $1,000
The Golden Opulence sundae offers a taste known only to rarified taste buds. Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream is the heart, which is blended with pure vanilla from Madagascar and Venezuelan Chuao chocolate and embellished with candied fruit, truffles, Grand Passion caviar, marzipan cherries and gold dragets. A garnish of edible gold leaf (23K) sits between the ice cream and a kiss of Amedei Porcelana warmed chocolate and a crown of Ron Ben-Israel sugar flower. Elegant… extravagant… and expensive… you eat this icy heaven with an 18K gold spoon.
4. The Sultan’s Golden Cake – $1,000
The sultan’s of old would appreciate this delectable piece of paradise. 24K gold leaf does a tango with apricots, figs, black truffles, pears and quince. They sit atop a square of golden cake – served in a sterling silver box – and demand an investment of $1,000 to enjoy.
5. The Brownie Extraordinaire $1,000
The Brownie Extraordinaire is made from almost-hedonistic dark chocolate, creamy ice cream and hazelnuts from Italy. To its right, a glass of Quinta do Novel Nicional port wine is poured to cleanse the palate and to add ambiance. The combination demands (and deserves) a steep price tag: $1,000 gets you this particular plate of pleasure
6. Chocopologie by Knipschildt $2,600 per pound
A single truffle from Fritz Knipschildt costs $250, placing it out of reach of the ordinary. Surely, the chocolate is extraordinary, being born from Valrhona cacao, ganache and truffle oil. Each truffle is hand rolled and dusted in cocoa powder by an artist’s hand.
7. A bowl of Ruby Roman grapes – $2,250
Cleopatra herself, as she floated lazily down the Nile, was unlikely to have known the taste of Ruby Roman grapes. As the name suggests, the grapes are a passion-filled ruby red and fetch a king’s ransom at $2,250 a bowl.
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8. Most Expensive Black Watermelon – $6,100
Exclusivity gives luxury its meaning, and the black Densuke watermelon is the definition of exclusive. It grows only on the remote island of Hokkaido, fostered by local farmers. The taste is deeper and sweeter than the green watermelon, and the price shows the difference: a recent auction for a 17-pound Densuke watermelon closed at $6,100… or almost $360 a pound.
9. Macaroons Haute Couture $7,414
Pierre Herme has intentionally put his variety of macaroon on rarified ground. It’s all in the ingredients, according to Herme, who gives customers choices far beyond the traditional butter cream/meringue puff combination. I have my suspicions that the price tag adds to the luxury, since only the most unique individuals can afford the $7,000+ price tag.
10. The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence $14,500
Chocolate, fruit, and Irish cream portray the stilt fishing tradition of Sri Lanka. Mango and pomegranate sit in rapture as decades of history envelop your 80K aquamarine plate. You eat – and eat well – leaving the Wine3 Fisherman Stilt restaurant with the extravagant plate, a full stomach and about $14,500 less wealthy.
11. Frrrozen Haute Chocolate $25,000
A frozen mix of the best cocoas from around the world is blended with mild and 24-carat gold. Whipped cream and shavings of La Madeline au truffles wrap the top like a black and white tiara. The Haute chocolate dessert is served in a golden goblet encrusted in diamonds. Price tag = $25,000… but at least you get to take the golden spoon home with you.
12. World Most Expensive Ice Cream $60,000
Three Twins Ice Cream is selling the flavor AND the experience. For $60,000 you arrive in Tanzania by first class air before being whisked off to 5-star accommodation. A trained concierge guides you to the summit of Kilimanjaro after you are settled and prepped. When you descend, the founder churns desert by hand from glacial ice harvested directly from the Kilimanjaro summit. Eat as much ice cream as you want, and return home with a 100% organic T-shirt to remember the moment.
13. Platinum Cake $130,000
The Japanese pastry chef Nobue Ikara offers the Platinum Cake, a unique dessert plate for the truly wealthy. The price (a staggering $130,000) isn’t for the cake itself, which is rather plain by most standards. The value is in the cake’s adornments… a smorgasbord of platinum jewelry including chains, necklaces, pins and pendants.
14. Strawberries Arnaud $1.4 million
Picture this: A troupe of jazz musician line up next to your table. They play that lust-drenched jazz New Orleans is known for. A white gloved waiter pours your choice of wine, from a rare collection valued at $24,850. Then the dessert arrives – a ruby red bowl of strawberries blanketed in a fluffy cloud of cream and mint. Somewhere in this bowl is a 4.7-carat pink diamond, once owned by Sir Ernest Cassel, which is now yours. And, before you leave, the check comes –$1.4 million for one order of Strawberries Arnaud.
15. Diamond Fruitcake $1.65 million
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. The Diamond Fruitcake is a girl’s wet dream. 223 diamonds are intertwined through the cake, which took the chef a month to create. You can eat it, if you can avoid all the rocks… and can come up with $1.65 million for the privilege.