World’s Most Expensive Truffles

The most Expensive Truffles in The World!!

Expensive truffles are notoriously pricey because they are difficult to cultivate. This makes them a true delicacy that some have called the king of all fungi. White truffles are more expensive than black truffles, but what are the most expensive truffles in the world?

The Associate Press reported in 2006 that Hong Kong real estate investor Sir Gordon Wu and his wife paid €125,000 (US $160,787) at an annual truffle auction in Grizane, Italy, for a gigantic Italian White Alba truffle, reportedly the most expensive ever. This pricey truffle weighed in at 1.51 kilograms (3.3 lbs).

In 2007, the record was beaten by a truffle weighing 3.3 lbs. Casino tycoon Stanley Ho purchased the white truffle, hailing from Tuscany, for US $330,000 at an annual auction in Hong Kong.

In fact, Ho won the auction again in 2010 and even beat the previous record—pound for pound, at least. The latest auction was for two truffles weighing just under 3 lbs total. Once again, Ho paid $330,000 for the fungal delicacy.

With the current popularity of culinary television shows like Iron Chef, expensive truffles are being exposed to a wider audience than ever before. Who knows how much the price for a kilo of truffles will cost in the near future?

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World’s Most Expensive Cupcakes

Do you like cupcakes? What about diamonds? Gold? If you said “Yes!” to all of these questions, then you’re in for a treat—or two—as we tell you about the most expensive cupcakes in the world.

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Decadence d’Or – $750

 

First, there’s Decadence d’Or by Pastry Chef Long Nguyen. Available at Las Vegas’ Palazzo Resort, ‘Decadence’ is made with edible gold flakes, gold-vanilla caviar, a Louis XIII de Remy Martin Cognac bottled around 1900 and Palmira Single Estate Chocolate. This cupcake truly has the “most expensive” look with its fantastic ornamentation.

Diamond cupcake by Mervis – $30,000

Created by Mervis Diamond Importers, these classy cupcakes weren’t just well-decorated—they were well-decorated with diamonds. Made to usher in the 2009 wedding season, each cupcake included a single, 2-carat asscher cut diamond surrounded by eight brilliant cut diamonds. Clearly the cupcakes weren’t bad enough for your teeth without the diamonds.

ROX diamond cupcake – $150,000

 

Created to mark the three-day Glam in the City fashion event in Glasgow, Scotland, this iced pastry—pardon the pun—is sparkling with gems from ROX luxury jewelers. ROX collaborated with Cupcake Glasgow to create this delightful diamond dessert. The event, fronted by fashion consultant Gok Wan, runs from June 18th to June 20th, 2010.

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World’s Most Expensive Cheesecakes

Read about the Most Expensive Cheesecakes in The World!!

While cream cheese was invented in 1872, cheese-based pies were around before Caesar crossed the Rubicon. In his De Agri Cultura, Roman statesman Cato the Elder wrote of a dish called placenta made of flour dough topped with cheese and honey. In modern times, cheesecake is usually made with cream cheese (US), ricotta (Italy) or quark cheese (Germany).

The most expensive cheesecake in the world is likely the cheesecake made by Chef Miguel Angel Quezada of Mexico and fifty-five cooks in January of 2009. The cheesecake took 60 hours to produce and weighed in at 2 tons. It was made with 2,000 pounds of cream cheese, 772 pounds of pastry, 551 pounds of sugar and 331 pounds of butter. It contained 20,000 servings and, according to Guinness World Records, was the largest cheesecake in the world.

The most expensive cheesecake you’ll be able to get your hands on, however, is offered by Saks Fifth Avenue. New York’s haute department store is selling a “Festive Two-Stack Cheesecake” by Elegant Cheesecakes. It weighs 10 pounds and comes in the form of a pair of stacked gift boxes. The filigreed chocolate shell contains a triple-mocha cheesecake on a shortbread crust and a chocolate decadence cake with buttercream frosting.

This luxury cheesecake can be had for $300 plus the price of overnight delivery.

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World’s Most Expensive Cheese on Toast

The Most Expensive Cheese on Toast in The World!!

Cheese on toast is a snack consisting of, as the name implies, cheese and toast. Butter and creative use of seasonings and toppings make the variations of this simple snack almost limitless. As Chef Tom Bridge demonstrated in 2006, the price for cheese on toast can be equally limitless.

Bridge’s Welsh Rarebit is a slice of Warburtons Toastie bread topped with creamy Lancashire cheese, chosen for its unique melting consistency, as well as L’Aquila white Umbrian truffles and Matsutake Chinese mushrooms. Considering the high price of both the truffles and the mushrooms, the dish cost a grand total of £345 (about US $609 at the time) to create.

Chef Bridge auctioned the most expensive cheese on toast in the world on eBay on April 27, 2006. The winner was treated to the Welsh Rarebit made by Chef Bridge in their own kitchen.


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World’s Most Expensive Beef Noodle Soup

The Lebanese Recipes Kitchen (The home of delicious Lebanese Recipes and Middle Eastern food recipes) presents the World’s Most Expensive Beef Noodle Soup.

Beef noodle soup is a Chinese dish consisting of beef, beef broth, vegetables and noodles. While it’s generally served as a side dish in the West, it can constitute a whole meal in its country of origin.

The most expensive beef noodle soup in the world is available from a restaurant called Beef’s Father Noodle in Taipei, China. The restaurant’s owner, Mr. Congyuan Wang, traveled for five years in order to find the best beef. The resulting soup contains several different kinds of premium beef from the US, Australia and Japan.

Only ten bowls of the expensive soup are served daily, and each one costs a hefty $320.

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Most Expensive Coffee in the World

The Lebanese Recipes Kitchen (The home of delicious Lebanese Recipes and Middle Eastern food recipes) invites you to know about the Most Expensive Coffee in the World.

The most expensive coffee in the world does not hail from Jamaica or Hawaii, but instead from Indonesia.

Kopi Luwak the most expensive coffee in the world does exist, and those who drink the expensive coffee insist that it is made from coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then excreted by the Common palm civet, a weasel-like animal.

“Kopi” the Indonesian word for coffee along with “luwak” is local name of this animal which eats the raw red coffee beans. The civet digests the soft outer part of the coffee cherry, but does not digest the inner beans and excretes them.

Apparently the internal digestion ends up adds a unique flavor to the beans, removing the bitter flavor, and then beans are then picked up by locals and sold. The most expensive coffee beans can cost up to $600 a pound, and up to $50 per cup, if you can get over the fact that you are drinking such a strange brew.

You would know if you drank the most expensive coffee in the world, because the quantities of it are tiny amounts.

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World’s Most Expensive Macaroons

The Lebanese Recipes kitchen presents the World’s Most Expensive Macaroons.

In the US, we usually think of macaroons as a kind of coconut meringue cookie. In fact, macaroons can also be made from many kinds of nut, although almond is the most common nut to use.

Pastry Chef Piere Herme is the latest of four generations of pastry and bakery chefs, and began his career as an apprentice at the age of 14. Today, he is the owner of thirteen stores in Paris and Tokyo. He’s also the creator of Macaroons Haute Couture, the most expensive macaroons in the world.

These macaroons consist of two meringue puffs, made with balsamic vinegar and fleur de sel, held together by your choice of a range of ingredients from peanut butter to chocolate made with red wine. The cost varies based on your choices and you could end up paying a staggering $7,414 for these costly cakes.
 
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Most Expensive Chocolate Brownie

The Lebanese Recipes kitchen presents the Most Expensive Chocolate Brownie.

The world’s most expensive chocolate brownie is now on the menu at the Brulee: The Dessert Experience in the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, NJ. This item featured on the dessert restaurant’s Crystal Menu features a dark chocolate brownie topped with Italian hazelnuts and served with ice cream, as well as a St. Louis crystal atomizer filled with a shot of expensive and rare port wine. The brownie is quite tame for such an expensive dessert menu item, however the crystal atomizer and the port wine served with it are extravagantly over-the-top.

The wine is a rare 1996 Quinta do Noval Nacional port wine produced from a section of their Portuguese vineyards with ungrafted vines. The St. Louis crystal atomizer normally used for dispensing perfume holds the shot of port wine is meant to be used to spray a fine mist of the wine throughout your mouth in between each bite you take. The atomizer is yours for the taking, a $750 value, after you are finished eating the most expensive chocolate brownie in the world.

The Brownie Extraordinaire with Saint Louis as it’s listed on the menu is offered as part of a $15,000 Valentine’s Day marriage proposal package from the Tropicana. The package includes a romantic dinner for two, hotel accommodations, the Brownie Extraordinaire at Brulee, a dinner for six to celebrate when she says “Yes!”, and a diamond engagement ring to present to your soon to be fiancee when you pop the question. Brulee offers their most expensive brownie as a dessert year round even if you aren’t interested in the Tropicana’s Deluxe Proposal package – at the most expensive price tag of $1,000!

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The Lebanese Recipes kitchen presents the Most Expensive Chocolate.

Fritz Knipschildt is the architect behind the most expensive chocolate in the world and is sometimes called the Willy Wonka of Connecticut. He founded Knipschildt Chocolatier in South Norwalk, Connecticut in 1999 and brought his Danish culinary training with him. All of his chocolates are handmade artisan products using only the freshest natural ingredients, with no additives or preservatives. He sells a chocolate called the Madeleine that must be ordered in advance. The Madeleine contains a creamy truffle ganache made from French Valrhona chocolate blended with fresh cream infused with vanilla pods and pure Italian truffle oil.

This extravagant yet simple ganache then has a French Perigold truffle rolled inside of it and the whole thing is dusted with cocoa powder. The ingredients alone don’t explain why this truffle chocolate is the world’s most expensive chocolate ever sold. Mr. Knipschildt’s explanation for the price tag is the tremendous amount of work that goes into producing these chocolates. The ganache is whipped and folded by hand for a long time to make it as silky as humanly possible, and he even has to perform the hand rolling of the Perigold truffle inside of the ganache within a refrigerated room so that the ganache hardens ever so slightly enough to be workable. Each one of these luscious truffle chocolates has a price tag of $250, making the confection cost approximately $2,600 per pound in quantity.

The Madeleine must be ordered in advance, and each chocolate comes with a personally signed card explaining how it was made and a unique serial number. Mr. Knipshildt has certainly created the world’s most expensive chocolate confection, and it’s probably worth every penny.

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Most Expensive Box of Chocolates

The Lebanese Recipes kitchen presents the Most Expensive Box of Chocolates.

We’ve all heard the saying, “Life is like a box of chocolates.” If you’re fabulously wealthy, though, then maybe your life is more like a steamer trunk full of chocolates. In any case, MarieBelle New York’s Chocolate Picnic Steamer Trunk may just be the most expensive box of chocolates in the world.
MarieBelle has a reputation for making some of the world’s finest chocolates, which is quite extraordinary considering they only opened their doors in 2000. A box of only four pieces of their chocolates costs $12.

Now consider the fact that the Chocolate Picnic Steamer Trunk contains 500 pieces of chocolate ganache, five pounds of chocolate bark and croquettes, eighty ounces of Aztec hot chocolate in four tins, a twenty-ounce tin of Aztec Iced Chocolate, eight Aztec Hot Chocolate Bars, a teapot and infuser, two china teacups, a leather-bound journal and a small library of books on chocolate.

That’s bound to be a bit pricey, isn’t it?

Well, it may come as something of a shock that the steamer trunk only costs $15,000. Of course, you also have to purchase it in person from their New York store. Surely that will make up for the incredibly low price of the world’s most expensive box of chocolates.

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The Lebanese Recipes kitchen presents the Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae.

The most expensive ice cream sundae in the world is called the “Grand Opulence” Sundae and was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Manhattan restaurant Serendipity 3. Serendipity 3 celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2004 and decided to create the world’s most expensive ice cream sundae as a publicity stunt. They were later recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as having accomplished their goal – at $1,000 the most expensive item on their menu became the official recorder holder as the most expensive ice cream sundae in the world!

Serendipity describes the Golden Opulence Sundae as follows: “5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf, the sundae is drizzled with the world’s most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana, and covered with chunks of rare Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela’s coast. The masterpiece is suffused with exotic candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries. It is topped with a tiny glass bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, an exclusive dessert caviar, made of salt-free American Golden caviar, known for its sparkling golden color. It’s sweetened and infused with fresh passion fruit, orange and Armagnac.

The sundae is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18K gold spoon to partake in the indulgence, served with a petite mother of pearl spoon and topped with a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel. How many customers have been willing to spend the $1,000 that this sundae costs? The founders admit it’s an outrageous price tag, but they say it has “snob appeal”. It has been popular enough since its introduction that they still serve it today, and recently the 15th Golden Opulence Sundae sold was ordered in advance for someone’s Sweet 16 birthday party. If you want to try it yourself, be sure to call ahead, as it takes a few days to prepare!

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Most Expensive Thanksgiving Dinner

The Lebanese Recipes kitchen presents the Most Expensive Thanksgiving Dinner. 

If this year’s turkey prices didn’t discourage you, then maybe you should check out the chef’s table at Café Gray in the Time Warner building. Traditionally, Thanksgiving Dinner at their chef’s table runs $10,000 for 12 seats. That’s around $833 a head. It’s the most expensive Thanksgiving dinner in New York City and possibly even the most expensive in the nation.

So what do guests at Café Gray’s Thanksgiving Dinner get? Well, in 2006, chef Gray Kunz’s expensive event included a breakfast of, among other things, scrambled eggs (with caviar and chervil), smoked salmon (with dill crème fraîche) and bacon (with, well, bacon). Between meals, there was a viewing of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (on plasma screens), balloon sculptures and a strolling magic show. The Thanksgiving dinner itself consisted of endive and quince salad, truffled butternut squash potage or lobster and crabmeat gratin and the centerpiece, a roasted organic lemon thyme turkey.

Of course, this year’s event has already happened, but you may still be able to snag seats for 2008 if you act quickly. You can even enjoy the most expensive Thanksgiving dinner without paying quite the most expensive price, as there are over 100 regular dining room seats for $500 apiece.

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