Save Room For Dessert On Your Credit Card

The most expensive dessert in the world (pictured) used to be the $14,500 “Fortress Aquamarine” served at a luxury resort in Sri Lanka. But today Sri Lankans can choke on their gilded shame, for the Upper East Side’s Serendipity 3 has put America back on top with a $25,000 triumph called the Frrrozen [sic] Haute Chocolate. Break out your giant diamond-encrusted foam fingers, because the Guinness Book of World Records will now list this as their number one entry!

The dessert blends 28 different cocoas and five grams of edible 24-karat gold, served in a goblet lined with edible gold. It’s consumed as conspicuously as possible with a gold spoon decorated with white and chocolate-colored diamonds and is crowned by an 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of white diamonds. Both the spoon and bracelet are intended for the diner to keep, along with a vastly over-inflated sense of social status. Photos of the trophy sweet are forthcoming; in the meantime feast your eyes on this slide show featuring the top ten most expensive desserts in the world. UPDATE. Here's a picture of the Frrrozen Haute Chocolate:

If the 25K dessert is too rich for your blood, we suggest slumming it at the Times Square Westin Hotel, where for a measly grand you can get a bagel. The four figure price tag, a percentage of which goes to raise money for culinary arts students, is justified by the bagel’s toppings: goji berry jelly, edible gold leaves, and white truffle cream cheese. Given the skyrocketing cost of white truffles this year, brought on by an inhospitably warm growing season in Italy, a thousand bucks isn’t a bad bargain for this bagel. We’re just glad we got to try such tasty truffles at Le Cirque this season; as the Post reports today, restaurants are struggling to obtain good ones.

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By John Del Signore in Food on November 7, 2007 5:07 PM

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JR

This isn't the most expensive desert in the wrold, I've got a 50K twinkie for you.

Terry Ward

i'm going to add a dozen bagels to my next paintings i make and raise the price

LOWELL99

Think about it folks, the worst economy since the depression. If you want to talk about decadent, arrogant and galling, this one kind of takes the proverbial cake. Instead of being so horribly wasteful, God forbid some of the people who might actually go for this crap take that 1k or 25k and donate it to a good charity. Of course we know that anyone who would splurge in such a fashion would not doubt be thinking about familes who cannot even muster up a decent meal for their children as they gorge in a fashion that would do the ancient Romans proud.

Myf

"(Incidentally, two very expensive American desserts were dropped from the list: the $1,000 Golden Opulence Sundae and $25,000 Frozen Haute Chocolate, both from Serendipity 3 in New York City. The restaurant was closed temporarily by the health department late last year.)"

---http://www.forbestraveler.com/...

aviatrix718

the toppings were good, but that bagel was rubbery!

Amanda Harletsch

what if...you put a scoop of icecream on a mercedes hood and sell it as desert... for dumb idiots!

Amanda Harletsch

NY is so materialistic that if you sell POOP and charge a stupid ammount people will buy it!

Go poop buyers go!

SP

Doesnt matter how "little" the amount of gold in the dessert is. People DIED getting that gold to you. As David Cross so eloquently puts it, this is the ultimate FUCK YOU to poor people by the rich, the ultimate statement of "we don't care about how irresponsible we are, we revel in our cruelty, we rule the world and everyone else will suffer for our amusement." This kind of attitude is a hold over from 200 years ago, and a clear sign that our society is cancer ridden and in it's death throes. And all you trivializing idiots are rats that are going down with the sinking ship.

matty

eh, it's a 25k publicity stunt.

i kind of wish people on this site were more savvy to tricks like this.

and gothamist is particularly guilty of spreading fake news.

hrm10

well at least people realize the $14,500 “Fortress Aquamarine” is ridiculous. its been open since march and has not been sold yet.

can i just get some incredible chocolate or dessert and nix the gems? if i wanted gems, i'd go buy gems.

alpalp114

Does it really count as a Guiness record before and until they actually sell such a thing?

Also: Eater says that "The whole thing is topped with a whip cream covered in shaved truffles from France."

I'm no gourmand, but does one really want mushrooms on their dessert?

angry_pickle

5g of gold? That's less than $150 worth.

This seems more like going to a jewelry store and buying a very overpriced and tacky spoon and bracelet topped off with a complementary free dessert.

virgil

I had this last night, and I have to say, it was not too bad; the gold tasts about like you'd expect: a bit coppery. The best part? I purged in the cab on the way home, and I think I recouped about 68% of my expenditures. Woot!

lemon

But the Kia ad told me that it's not cool to spend money any more.

cwbuecheler

zodak - ha!

lemon - I understand that it's a publicity stunt. No one actually pays $25k for something like that, basically.

However, lesser but still hyper-expensive desserts featuring things like edible gold leaf (which is completely tasteless and, frankly, makes a dish look tacky as all hell) are sold by the thousands every day. And publicity stunts of this type, which perpetuate the idea that "luxury" is equivalent to how much money one spends and not the actual quality of an item, are what keep them selling.

chuzzlewit

..."hahaha now I'm EATING the gold!! out of my way Alfred you bumbling dog, can't you see you're interfering with MY HAPPY MEAL??"

ryno

Publicizing these stunts only encourages them, Gothamist!

lemon

They didn't say anyone buys this, they just said it's available. I doubt they'll sell two. (One will go towards a publicity stunt.)

zodak

It's tagged "decadence" but what it really should be tagged with is "mindless self-indulgence."

i love that band!

babyhitler

what the hell? serendipity 3? the place I go to eat frozen hot chocolate? when did they get so high class? is arby's coming out with the most expensive hamburger next?

matty

I was more disgusted by the guy on the train story.

Rocknrope

Is anyone else as disgusted by this as I am? Yeah, it's your money and whatever, but spending that much money on something as fleeting and inconsequential as a dessert, where you're paying most of the money to eat gold, is just obscene. With another 300 point drop in the Dow today, we'll see how well this place fares in the coming recession.

David

Wow, that "24-karate" will kick your ass every time.

cwbuecheler

This is an atrocity.

The world's most expensive dessert ... covered in things which are either inedible, or have no taste, both of which were brought here by people living at a subsistence level who earn less in ten years than was spent on this single dish.

It's tagged "decadence" but what it really should be tagged with is "mindless self-indulgence."

And the thing is, if you added five bucks worth of foie gras to this, THAT would be what people choose to get worked up over. Christ.

EricGewiz

There's a $1,000 omelette at Le Parker Meridien hotel.

Mags

Maybe I just don't "get it" because I'm not rich. But REALLY? People with money to burn find this enticing? Wouldn't it be better, and equally frivolous, to just eat some nice chocolate and then go buy some jewelry?

I don't think I would be impressed by someone who ordered this, just mystified.