On any special occasion, a chocolate box along with a card is a great gift if you have a special someone. Love is priceless, so it’s okay to splurge on chocolate for your significant other. In this list we bring you the top 7 most expensive chocolates.
La Madeline au Truffe by house of Knipschildt
La Madeline au Truffe by house of Knipschildt is one of the most extravagant chocolates in the world. Made with 70% Valrhona dark chocolate, heavy cream, sugar, truffle oil and vanilla, this ganache definitely aims to impress. Each chocolate is made to order and takes up to 14 days to deliver and it’s a perfect gift for a special occaision.
For 250$, you will get La Madeline au Truffle in a bed of pearls in a silver box tied with a ribbon. The Danish born chocolatier uses French Périgord truffle, which is a rare mushroom that can cost up to 1,000$ per pound. The exquisite French Périgord truffles are often called Diamonds of Périgord.
Wispa Gold Wrapped Chocolate
Would you pay 1,600$ for a Cadbury chocolate bar? If yes, then this is your bar of chocolate. In hopes to promote the re-launch Wispa chocolate bar, they created one of the world’s most expensive chocolate bar. It was designed as a marketing campaign to re-launch one of their signature caramel chocolate bars, Wispa Gold Chocolate Bar.
The wrapper of this bar of chocolate is covered in an actual gold leafed Twix-like wrapper, which is the cause for this insanely high price. It was on display in London’s Selfridges department stores for a week. It was to be sold to the highest bidder. Unfortunately, after a week of display, no one stepped forward for the purchase. Cadbury decided to ‘buy it back’ and placed it on display in its popular museum Cadbury World.
DeLafée’s Gold Chocolate Box With Swiss Gold Coin
Delafee’s gold chocolate box contains 8 chocolate adorned with 24 karat edible gold. For 390$, you also get an antique gold coin, dating from the years 1910 to 1920. The gold used is edible and safe when ingested. In the luxury food industry, gold is used in multiple forms such as powder, flakes, sprinkles or leaves.
Eating gold is a current worldwide trend and the biggest consumer is India with an estimated 12 tons of culinary gold per year. This trend is hardly new, eating precious metal dates back thousand of years.God has been prized for its esthetic qualities and its symbolic strength.
Frrrozen Haute Chocolate
The staff at the Serendipity 3 restaurant set Guinness World Record with their 25,000$ chocolate dessert. The dessert is a high end version of the restaurant’s Frrrozen Hot Chocolate. The dessert is a mix of cocoas and milk in a slushy like form. The high price is due to the 24 Karat gold that is mixed in it and the ‘La Madeleine Au Truffe’ that tops this extravagant dessert.
Not only the goblet that holds the dessert is made of gold and diamonds, but also the spoon is gold. At the base of the goblet, there is an 18 karat god bracelet with 1 carat white diamonds. It is sold only with advance orders. The spoon and the bracelet can be taken home.
Noka’s Vintage Collection
Listed as one of the world’s most expensive chocolates by Forbes in 2006, this box of chocolates comes with the price tag of 854$. The founder of Noka described his products as ‘not so much candy as a tasting experience’. Its price is due of the mixture of 75% pure cocoa along with sugar and butter. The chocolates are presented in Noka’s famous signature box, elegantly crafted of brushed stainless steel.
Swarovski Studded Chocolates
Priced at $10,000, a Lebanese chocolatier and Harrods have tied up to bring out Swarovski studded chocolates. The premium packagings are handmade and wrapped in Indian silk. In each package, 49 chocolates are placed on suede leather with gold and platinum partitions. The stunning box is made out of hand woven silk from China and India.
Le Chocolat Box
Le chocolat box is considered to be the most expensive chocolates in the world to ever exist. Costing 1.5$ millions, this box of chocolate does not only includes chocolates, but also necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets adorned with diamonds, sapphires and emeralds.
