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Canada’s Toronto residents and visitors can now have their cupcake and eat it too, as far as they are willing to fork out the far from negligible sum of $900 per unit.
Created by Le Dolci bakery, the extravagant cupcake is not the world’s most expensive — that title is hold by Dubai-made “Golden Phoenix” ($1,200) —, but it certainly include top-notch ingredients, such as sea salt from Carmargue in France, Tahitian vanilla beans and Valhrona Cocoa powder.
Most importantly, the baked treat is topped with diamond-like sprinkles, a 24-karat gold leaf, an edible gold-painted branch and confectionary bubbles made with a “molecular gastronomy” technique.
According to NBC News, Le Dolci has received a flurry of inquiries and interest about the made-to-order cupcake, which has helped sales of the bakery’s everyday $2.75 cupcakes. But so far, there have been no other orders for the $900 version.
Images courtesy of Le Dolci.
3 Comments
Tim Harry
There were no real diamonds in the cupcake, but who cares these days about accurate journalism?
Saeed
Be careful Tim, there is a big difference between diamond and diamond-like. If you eat a real diamond surely the result will be a severe stomachache.
Tim Harry
“Canada’s most expensive cupcake is topped with gold, diamond sprinkles” – we can make up any attention-grabbing title, can we not?