Wednesday, October 12, 2011

  Most expensive chocolate pudding: Chef Marc Guibert sets world record (Video)

 Windermere, Cumbria, UK -- Marc Guibert, head chef at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Windermere, Cumbria, has cooked up a chocolate pudding made with four different types of the finest Belgian chocolate flavoured with a combination of peach, orange and whiskey; its lavish list of ingredients, which include gold, champagne caviar and a two-carat diamond and sells for $34,440 (22,000 pounds) - setting the new world record for the Most expensive chocolate pudding, according to World Record Academy (www.worldrecordacademy.com).

  Photo: Marc Guibert, head chef at the Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Bowness-on-Windermere, has created the world's most expensive chocolate pudding, which will cost chocolate fans 22,000 pounds. ( enlarge photo )

The Guinness world record for the most expensive chocolate is Amedei Porcelana, priced at $90 (then £52) per 450 g (1 lb). It is the first chocolate in the world made from cocoa beans of a single variety.

Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the most valuable chocolate bar in the world is a 100-year old Cadbury's chocolate bar which went on Captain Robert Scott's first Discovery expedition (1901-1904) to the Antarctic. The bar, which is 10 cm (4 in) long, wrapped and uneaten in a cigarette tin, was bought for £470 ($687) by an anonymous buyer at Christie's, London, UK.

  Styled like a Faberge Easter egg, the chocolate concoction have battered all previous records with its lavish list of ingredients, which include gold, champagne caviar and 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.

  At £22,000, the dessert easily breaks the Guinness world record currently held by New York's Serendipity 3 Restaurant which has a pudding priced at £12,000.

  It is layered with champagne jelly and a light biscuit joconde and glazed with edible gold leaf.
Photo: The world's most expensive chocolate pudding is shaped like a Faberge Easter egg — but made with a whole host of luxurious ingredients, including gold and champagne caviar.
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  But the cherry on top of the edible masterpiece is a two carat diamond.
  It also comes with one of the most expensive bottles of dessert wine you can buy, Chateau d'Yquem, which is priced at around £500 per bottle.

  "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," the Daily Mail quoted Stephen Broughton, managing director of Lindeth Howe, as saying.