By: Erica Schecter
Earlier this year we wrote about a sundae that costs
$1000. Now the bakery gods have gone berserk again, this time with a $900
cupcake.
The owner of Toronto’s Le Dolci bakery, Lisa
Sanguedolce, was approached by a client who wanted an extravagant cupcake created
for his wife’s birthday.
$900 cupcake
So what exactly goes into a cupcake with a $900
price tag? Well there was a pastry cream filling, flavored with champagne that
costs about $1,000 a bottle. Buttercream frosting, made with butter from
Normandy, chocolate from luxury Italian chocolatiers, specialty coffee, French
sea salt, organic cane sugar, and Tahitian vanilla beans. Obviously. Tiny
champagne bubbles sprinkled over the cake were created using molecular
gastronomy and “diamonds” carved out of
sugar were placed around the edge of the cupcake. Fondant flowers etched in edible gold and stylized gold
strips crisscrossed the sides of the cupcake, complete with edible gold branches
and leaves. And finally, because the previously mentioned items weren’t enough,
there was a pipette of the Courvoisier cognac, to be drizzled on top before it
was eaten.
The cupcake required the work of two pastry chefs, a
cake designer, two days of labor and many hours of planning.
Whether the lady thought her husband was absolutely
brilliant for doing this for her or absolutely furious for wasting all that
money, no one knows.