The vision of gleaming, golden indulgence you see above is the world’s most expensive ice cream dish: the $1,000 Golden Opulence Sundae from the New York City restaurant, Serendipity 3. It was created in 2006 to celebrate the eatery’s 50th anniversary (the golden anniversary, of course). Here’s the official description, just in case you’re thinking about ordering one:
“Five 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. 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. 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 and topped with a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel.”
Believe it or not, Serendipity 3 actually sells about one Golden Opulence Sundae per month, although they do require 48 hours’ notice if you plan to partake. The good news is, you get to keep the goblet…but you have to give back the spoon.
TODAY’S PRIZE: No, it’s not a $1,000 sundae, but you can make your own out-of-this-world ice cream treats with it! It’s the Play-Doh Magic Swirl Ice Cream Shoppe and it’ll belong to one commenter chosen at random from this entry. We’ll also throw in a month’s supply of real ice cream to satisfy your sweet tooth.
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It would be obscene to spend that much on one dish of ice cream when people are
losing their homes and struggling to put food on the table for their family.Anyone who would buy one definitely has more money than brains. Personally, I think the message from Caroline is from a “frat boy” looking for bragging rights.
Just give me some good old fashioned Chocolate!
It really doesn’t sound that good to me. I guess I have less than extravagant tastes. The Play-Doh ice cream toy looks like fun though. My kids would love it!
Looks a little too expensive for me…
This sundae looks absolutely delicious and fun to eat. I think it would take me several days to eat since you get to keep the glass. I would have to take it home and put it in the freezer and eat a little everyday. Yum Yum!
They call that 5 scoops?! Guess they haven’t seen my scoops, LOL…
Yes, this overpriced concoction is something to look at, but, as is often the case, it probably looks better than it tastes! Those foolish enough to spend such outrageous sums just to say they did it, just don’t know how really foolish they are! They could have the “best of the best” with Turkey Hill priced for the masses! THANK YOU TURKEY HILL, for satisfying our tastes with great tasting quality ingredients in your affordable ice cream which we can enjoy anytime in the comfort of our humble homes! Keep up the good work and bring on your new creations (as well as all our all time favorites)! It’s like Christmas everyday!
too rich for my blood
Why would anyone spend that much money
on a fancy sundae when they can enjoy
Turkey Hill ice cream just as much for
much, much less.
That sundae is too much for my budget! I’ll stick with good ‘ol Turkey Hill ice cream instead. A month’s supply would be a great way to start off 2009, don’t ya think?
Wow…that is a Very Expensive, Luscious Treat! I would love to endulge into that sundea.
It looks good but looks can be deceiving so I will stick with my favorite–good old turkey Hill Ice Cream!!
Hey It Looks good BUT i’ll stick to my Turkey Hill peanut Butter ice cream.
Saw this one on TV – interesting to watch BUT not my kind of sundae–
just give me the GOOD OLD FASHION
kind made in my kitchen with which
ever flavor of Turkey Hill happens
to hit my fancy at the time….this
is more than GOOD enough for my taste.
Think I’ll have some now.
Whatever floats your boat I guess. I wouldn’t partake though.
crazy
“23K edible gold leaf”–? gold is edible, without digestion problems? wow. not for me tho. i’d rather keep the gold spoon and eat some TH out of the carton instead.
I’ll trade that sundae for the month of TH Ice Cream. Though the Baccarat Goblet & the Chocolat might be interesting
NEW YORK CAN KEEP IT I WOULD HAVE A BANNA SPLIT
That’s cool!
Wow!
Would love to try the Sundae~~~i KNOWN I COULD EAT THE WHOLE SUDAE BY MYSELF!!!
Sounds good! Maybe I’ll order one…..When I win the Mega Millions Jackpot…LOL!
That sundae is definitely too expensive for me. The children in our home daycare would love to play with the Play Dough Magic Swirl Ice Cream Shoppe.
Now that rich ice cream treat would be a delectible delight, but that fancy, you could probably only enjoy a few bited before you would be on sugar overload or it would fill you up real quick and weigh you down. And to be honest, I would prefer take the Turkey Hill prize for today anyday over this dessert treat. I mean this dessert is only one bowl-full that would last you to the end of the night, but with a month’s supply of ice cream, you are satisfied for at least 30 days! The nice gold platter would be a reminder of your special dessert, but I think it would be better to remeber how delicious something was, and then be able ot go to the freezer and get some more anytime you wanted! Plus you have to let them know in advance 48 hours before eating the dessert. But the beauty of Turkey Hill ice cream is that you can stock the freezer with many different flavors, that way you can satisfy multiple cravings, and many differnt tast buds. You can have one flavor one night and a completely different but equally tastey one another night, or even in the same bowl. That being said, I am going in for a tripple decker right now…one scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough, one of choco mint chip, and one choco malt chip! YUMMMMMM!!! Give me the prize anyday over this rich dessert!
Wow ,It is a work of art and yes I would love to try one . I bet it the taste is fabulous and so different .
Ah, just give me some Turkey Hill!
Get rid of the unneeded additives, takes away from the cool treat of the ice cream. Give me Turkey Hill black cherry in any old dish. I just tried it and love it, just as every flavor.
Ice cream doesn’t have to be expensive to taste good! I’ll take TH any day.
That ice cream does look good …but just think if it has freezer burn and you paid all that money !!yuk…..We’ll take turkey hill any day.
Does gold taste like chocolate or vanilla? Either way, Mmmmmmmmmmm!
Dear Turkey Hill,
I saved $997.00!!! I would name your vanilla AMERICAN VANILLA!!! Thank you for keeping your Vanilla and French Vanilla and all the other great flavors,, affordable to us supermarket people hoping to have a few dollars to spend on an extra.. like ice cream for dessert!! Peggy
I love TH ice cream so to me nothing would encourage me to spend that kind of money on just one bowl of ice cream. All I would be able to think about would be how much more TH ice cream I could have bought. Another reason not to buy their ice cream; who can wait 48 hours for desert? Especially for TH ice cream! Not me that’s for sure. Thanks for doing such a great job on all of your ice cream flavors. I haven’t found one that I don’t like yet! They are all delicious. Keep up the good work!
TH is the best, especially vanilla, and my grands and kids love it, also, but the grands would love the prize! It would be so great to give it to them, along with a few different flavors of TH!!!
it looks like a ice cream exploded!!
I saw a tv spot about this on the food network. although ive never tried turkey hill, most of the people on this forum seem to enjoy it a lot. I’ve thought that tasting gold would be pretty cool, but a month of ice cream sounds good too. I cant decide!
What an exotic sundae! Wonder if I’ll ever get to try one!
love this ice-cream! i think i’ll try it next time i visit the store. i cant wait
omgg this is one of my dream goals to try one(: ima do it for a fact i need to tryy onee itss fer shuree my one of my top to doo[: taste goldd would bee soo omgg <33
that looks so beatiful and ymmy mmmm…. 0:
Yummy.