Grown tired of the rich moist chocolate cake? Do you feel that it isn't rich enough to fill your longing sweet taste buds? Well, if you have $100 to spare then you might just be able to enjoy a doughnut covered in gold flakes, topped with icing made from the very expensive Cristal Champagne.
Care to try?
In a very unlikely place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a Filipino restaurant has a dessert on their menus that can burn your pocket but maybe not the calories.
The Manila Social Club, who is also known for their ube doughnuts (Ube, a purple yam that is commonly being used in desserts and cold beverages in the Philippines) serves a gold-coated pastry with champagne topping.
The restaurant retails the ube doughnuts for $40 per dozen but a gold donut can cost you a hundred bucks each.
The gold donut is also filled with ube and its icing is made from Cristal Champagne. The pastry is filled with ube mousse and champagne jelly. And to make it not only delicious but also golden, gold flakes 24-karats worth is placed on top.
The restaurant with their Instagram social media handle @manilasocial club, posted a picture online with a caption:
The Golden Cristal Ube Donut The Manila Social Club presents their infamous gold-ube donut, adorned with icing made with Cristal champagne and filled with an ube mousse, champagne jelly, and covered with 24k Gold. $100 per donut.
Owner and chef, Bjorn DelaCruz, explains that the birth of the donut came from one time where they visited Braven Brewery where he unveiled a doughnut topped with Braven White IPA and dusted with gold. And the champagne? He loves Cristal.
He never realized that people would be willing to order dozens of them, thinking that the dessert is just something to add to the menu to celebrate the New Year.
Online posts have indicated that some New Yorkers are even willing to cash out $1,200 for a dozen of the golden doughnuts. In the current market, gold is recently trading at $1,075 per ounce.
