Restaurant whips up the world's most expensive dessert
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Dessert, sir? That'll be £22,000 please... Lake District restaurant whips up the world's most expensive pudding
- Made with champagne caviar and gold
- Topped off with a two-carat diamond
As tempting as this dessert looks, you might just lose your appetite when you see the price tag.
Styled like a Faberge Easter egg, the chocolate concoction will set you back an eye-watering £22,000.
It's believed to have battered all previous records courtesy of its lavish list of ingredients, which includes gold, champagne caviar and a two-carat diamond
Cadbury, eat your heart out: This dessert is made with four different types of finest Belgian chocolate and dressed with champagne caviar and gold leaf. The piece de resistance is a two-carat diamond
The pudding is made with four different types of the finest Belgian chocolate flavoured with a combination of peach, orange and whiskey.
It is layered with champagne jelly and a light biscuit joconde and glazed with edible gold leaf.
It is the handiwork of Marc Guibert, head chef at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Windermere, Cumbria, and is being launched for National Chocolate Week, starting today
The chef: Marc Guibert, who works at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Windermere
Stephen Broughton, managing director of Lindeth Howe, said: 'Marc has used all of his culinary talents to whip up a truly incredible concoction of chocolate, champagne and gold leaf, all topped off with a diamond.
'It looks spectacular, tastes incredible and has a price tag to match!'
At £22,000, the dessert easily breaks the world record currently held by New York's Serendipity 3 Restaurant, which was selling its Frrrozen Haute Chocolate last year for a cool £15,730.
Theirs contains 24 carat edible Swiss gold and is lined with 23 carat edible gold leaf.
But the British pudding will not take its place in the Guinness Book of World Records until a customer has deep enough pockets to order one - which must be done three weeks in advance.
- Made with champagne caviar and gold
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imagine if someone drop the cake on the floor!
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Such £22,000 sweet sorrow: Businessman EATS world's most expensive dessert after being dumped by his girlfriend
- Each mouthful of the 3in by 3in dessert cost around £800 and it took just 15 minutes to devour
- Styled like a Faberge egg it was made of gold, champagne caviar and a diamond
Last updated at 8:22 AM on 10th December 2011
This is the moment a businessman Carl Weininger tucked into the world's most expensive dessert which he bought for £22,000 to cheer himself up after he was dumped by his girlfriend.Mr Weininger, 60, splashed out on the extravagant pudding as a 'pick-me-up' after she ended their three year relationship.
The chocolate-laced pudding, styled like a Faberge egg, is believed to have broken all previous records with its list of ingredients including gold, champagne caviar and a diamond.
Shelling out: Carl Weininger 60, bought the extravagant pudding as a 'pick-me-up' after he split from his girlfriend of three years
Mr Weininger took the pudding to the Aviators' Ball, at Heathrow Terminal Five's Sofitel Hotel on November 26, where lucky guests sampled the luxury dessertEach mouthful cost around £800 and the whole dessert took just 15 minutes to devour.
Mr Weininger from Rugby, Warkwickshire, admitted he bought the pudding to cheer himself up after his relationship ended.
He said: 'Buying the dessert was a real boost for my morale.
'I was dumped earlier this year and felt this could be a decent pick-me-up
That's rich: The pudding, which he shared with other excited diners, pictured, was made at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Windermere, Cumbria
'As someone who buys and sells diamonds, I was also particularly attracted by the diamond that came with it.
'It's not something you do every day and the response has been overwhelmingly positive.
'I'm not much of a chocolate lover myself but all the women who tasted it said "Wow".
'It was absolutely delicious, as you would expect, but only lasted 15 minutes but the flavours will last in the memory forever.'
The pudding was made at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Windermere, Cumbria, which is now awaiting confirmation of its place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Chef Marc Guilbert layered the flamboyant pudding with a light biscuit joconde and champagne jelly, infused with peach, orange and whiskey.
The 3in by 3in pudding was encased in an outer coating made of bitter dark Belgian chocolate, glazed with edible gold leaf and handmade flowers.
Called the 'Frozen Haute Chocolate' the chocolate sundae was made from a blend of 28 cocoas from all around the world, infused with five grams of edible 23-karat gold and served in a goblet lined with more edible gold.
But the cherry on the top was a two-carat diamond, supplied by the award-winning Wave Jewellery.
The dessert also contained an £18,000 gold bracelet and a gold spoon set with white diamonds.
The eye-watering £22,000 price tag smashed the previous world record set by New York's Serendipity Restaurant, whose dessert cost £12,000.
Record: The eye-watering £22,000 price tag smashed the previous world record set by New York's Serendipity Restaurant, whose dessert cost £12,000
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What rich people do...
I can only eat cup cake.
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wu liao
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erm.
This £22,000 can feed alot of poor ppl lo.
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Originally posted by motoway:
erm.
This £22,000 can feed alot of poor ppl lo.
.....he fed his broken heart and bruised ego -
Originally posted by Jia_Ni_loves_cats:
What rich people do...
I can only eat cup cake.
Enjoy your cup cake! -
now we know why the western banks need help from us.....
china is right to cease all lendings......
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so the gold leaves and diamond are edible anot???
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Must leave them behind, if take, considered cheap skate.
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why the hell is there a goddamned 2ct diamond on the damned thing?
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Originally posted by mancha:
Must leave them behind, if take, considered cheap skate.
what a waste! -
Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
so the gold leaves and diamond are edible anot???
.....of cos the gold leaves are edible, supposed to eat them with the pudding. Diamond??!! haha cannot lah so hard. That's for keep... -
jia ba gueh eng....
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Originally posted by the Bear:
why the hell is there a goddamned 2ct diamond on the damned thing?
I guessed the dessert is made with the female customers in mind or any fat cat wish to impress his girlfriend. So.. kind of unexpected.. -
Originally posted by Fcukpap:
jia ba gueh eng....
Let's eat the rich! -
Originally posted by NeverSayGoodBye:
Let's eat the rich!....ang moh bah chao ar....
