If someone handed you an extra thousand dollars, you’re likely to have some good ideas on how to spend it. Maybe you’d pay some bills, cover rent, on go on a shopping spree. However, using it to pay for a single dessert is probably not one of those ways you envision using it. Yes, you heard that right. There are desserts, and then there are desserts. From $250 to $60,000, these decadent treats from around the world will delight and shock you!
5. Chocopologie by Knipschildt ($250)
Although this is the lowest priced dessert on our list, the $250 pricetag gets you exactly one truffle. Yes, just one. But it will make all truffle and chocolate lovers swoon. The dark chocolate truffles are made with a ganache of 70% Valrhona cacao and blended with truffle oil. They are handrolled and dusted with cocoa powder, and each comes with a French black truffle hidden inside. Oh la la!
4. Decadence D’or Cupcake ($750)
4. Decadence D’or Cupcake ($750)
At Sweet Surrender in Las Vegas, there’s a cupcake lover’s dream dessert. The Decadence D’or Cupcake will only set you back $750, but not to worry—it’s anything but a regular cupcake. Made from Palmira single-estate chocolate from the rare and fragile Criollo bean at the Valrhona plantation in Venezuela (yes, try to figure that one out), it’s adorned with edible gold flakes and served with Tahitian gold vanilla caviar and a 100 year-old cognac. The extraordinary cupcake comes encased in blown sugar, so it’s also a work of art.
3. ‘Oak’ Dessert ($850)
3. ‘Oak’ Dessert ($850)
The ‘Oak’ dessert at rooftop restaurant Sirocco, in Bangkok, Thailand is not the most fanciful, but it is three courses. First course is banana, crumble and jelly, and it’s served with Chateau La Tour Blanch. Second, a foie gras base with Amedei chocolate and blackberry is served with Grahm’s Port, vintage 1983. You’ll finish it off with truffle, cognac, Armedei chocolate and honey, served with L’or de Martel cognac. And then there’s the view…
2. Golden Opulence Sundae ($1,000)
2. Golden Opulence Sundae ($1,000)
Leave it to Serendipity 3 to take the classic chocolate sundae to the next level. Created in celebration of the restaurant’s 50 year anniversary, the world’s most expensive sundae comes with 5 scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream that’s mixed with Madagascar vanilla and Venezuelan chuao chocolate. Inside you’ll find gold dragats, Parisian candied fruits, marzapan cherries and truffles. Topped with 23-carat edible gold leaf and a drizzle of one of the world’s most expensive chocolates, Amedei por celana, and an Israeli sugar flower, the high-priced sundae is served in a crystal goblet and you’ll get an 18-carat gold spoon to gobble it up. Hungry yet?
1. Krispy Kreme’s Luxe Donut ($1,682)
1. Krispy Kreme’s Luxe Donut ($1,682)
The only good side of forking over $1,682 for donuts, and getting one instead of a couple of thousand, is that your waistline will be very happy. Still, $1,682 for one donut… But it is filled with champagne jelly, white chocolate flowers dusted in gold, edible diamonds, 24-carat gold leaf and a side cocktail. The redeeming factor? It’s absolutely gorgeous and some of the proceeds go to charity.
