Excerpt- Enhance your knowledge about chocolates on this Chocolate Day.
As the third day of Valentine’s Week gushes through the threshold, it brings with it the aroma of cocoa and chocolates. The day is celebrated as Chocolate Day, and you give your loved ones their favorite chocolates.
However, have you ever wondered that the richness in chocolates is not just about taste? Although it has been eons since the ancient Minoans dried cacao leaves for carrying out monetary transactions, the list of chocolates that would cost you a million or more bucks does not end in the present times. Here goes the list.
Frrrozen Haute Chocolate
Making its way to the Guinness Book Of World Records for being the most expensive dessert, this sundae was created to promote a restaurant based in New York known as Serendipity 3 in 2007. It was served in a gold cup lined with white diamonds containing a 28-cocoa blend with five ounces of edible 23-karat gold. It had cost as much as 25000 U.S. dollars.
Golden Speckled Chocolate Egg
Named as the “most expensive non-jeweled chocolate egg” in the Guinness Book Of World Records, the Golden Speckled Egg weighs somewhat more than 100 pounds and measures three feet tall and two inches broad. The egg was sold at an auction in 2012 for $11,107 and the proceeds from the auction went for charity. It was produced by seven chocolatiers from the United Kingdom and Japan. Amedei chocolate, edible gold leaf, and a gourmet chocolate filling were added. It was also adorned with 12 chocolate mini-eggs, 20 chocolate bars, and five white chocolate flowers.
Cadbury Wispa Gold Chocolate Bar
It was in 1995 when the famous chocolate company Cadbury decided to relaunch Wispa Gold Bar. Wrapped in edible gold leaf, the chocolate was made with premium Madagascan cocoa beans and had cost $1600. The bar was put up for auction but the winning bidder showed up and the chocolate remained with Cadbury. Today, it’s on display in their Cadbury World chocolate-themed museum, and cheaper replicas of the bar can be found in retail outlets all over the world.
Swarovski Studded Chocolates
Lebanese chocolatier Patchi and the department store behemoth Harrods teamed up in 2010 to create 49 pieces of dark chocolate encrusted with Swarovski crystals and adorned with gold and silk rose. They had wrapped them with delicate Indian Silk and packed them up in a leather box. The luxury chocolate box had cost $10000 and is no more up for sale.
So now, when you know these delicacies of the world, why not treat your partner with some chocolate?
Written by: Saumya Singh
Author’s bio:
Saumya Singh is a budding lifestyle and entertainment journalist. She believes that lifestyle journalism is not everyone’s cup of tea. She holds the view that just like hard stories, covering soft stories also deserves their appreciation because it is a part of journalism that appeals to the masses.
