{"id":74480,"date":"2014-08-19T04:38:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T03:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5starweddingmagazine.com\/?p=74480"},"modified":"2018-12-26T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:29:23","slug":"the-worlds-most-expensive-cupcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/the-worlds-most-expensive-cupcake\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Cupcake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Created by <strong>Le Dolci<\/strong> bakery in Toronto, the extravagant cupcake is thought to be the world&rsquo;s most expensive, beating the current record holder being the $450 Decadence D&rsquo;Or cupcake at Las Vegas&rsquo; The Palazzo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Cupcake\" alt=\"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Cupcake\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/f3eeb740-1cca-4115-8747-b46f0837d5fa.jpg\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 467px;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Cupcake\" alt=\"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Cupcake\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/f3eeb740-1cca-4115-8747-b46f0837d5fa.jpg\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 467px;\" \/><\/noscript><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The cake was commissioned by a man who wanted to create a unique and personalised cupcake for his wife&rsquo;s 40th birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">After a few days of brainstorming, the pastry team came up with a concoction made with some of the most expensive ingredients in the world, including Krug Collection Brut champagne, <strong>24-karat gold leaves, and a limited edition Courvoisier.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Cupcake\" alt=\"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Cupcake\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/e8b20767-c5cc-4238-83eb-8a1861c7847c.jpg\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 1049px;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Cupcake\" alt=\"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Cupcake\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/e8b20767-c5cc-4238-83eb-8a1861c7847c.jpg\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 1049px;\" \/><\/noscript><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">If you fancy having some of these for your wedding, it will set you back $900 and Le Dolci will make the cupcake via special order<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Ingredients to this pricey cake:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Kona Blue Mountain coffee<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Sea salt from Camargue, France<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Organic cane sugar<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Valrhona cocoa powder<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Tahitian vanilla beans<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Pastry cream made with Krug Collection Brut champagne<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Rosewood Estate honey<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Normandy butter<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Amadei Italian chocolate<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">24-karat gold dust and leaves<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">A limited edition Courvoisier<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledolci.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ledolci.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created by Le Dolci bakery in Toronto, the extravagant cupcake is thought to be the world&rsquo;s most expensive, beating the current record holder being the $450 Decadence D&rsquo;Or cupcake at Las Vegas&rsquo; The Palazzo. The cake was commissioned by a man who wanted to create a unique and personalised cupcake for his wife&rsquo;s 40th birthday. After a few days of brainstorming, the pastry team came up with a concoction made with some of the most expensive ingredients in the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hair-and-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}