Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and today we're making the world's most expensive
ice cream sundae!
It is in the Guiness Book of World Records and it sells for $1000 at Serendipity 3 in
New York.
To make this super rich ice cream you'll need cream and then creme fraiche which is very
high in butter fat so it will make it really super creamy.
Sugar, egg yolks and Tahitian vanilla beans and I'll put all the recipe quantities on
the HowToCookThat.net website for you and I'll link to that below.
Pour the cream into the saucepan, then add the creme fraiche.
Now usually you'd add milk here but because we are making it so rich we've got cream and
cream.
And then cut the vanilla beans down the centre and scape out the seeds by running a knife
along the middle.
Put the seeds and the pods into the cream and heat it until the cream just starts to
boil.
Then you want to turn that off and leave it for about 10 minutes for that vanilla to really
infuse into the cream.
Tip the sugar into the egg yolks and whisk those together.
Then bring your cream back up to the boil.
Then while you whisk, pour the hot cream into the egg yolks and keep whisking the whole
time as you do that.
Then return all of that to the pan and now you want to heat it until it just starts to
thicken slightly.
This won't take long.
To test it just run your finger along the back of a spoon and if the line stays there
it's ready.
Immediately take it off the heat and pour it through a sieve to get rid of the vanilla
pods and then leave that to cool in the fridge.
To make the chocolate sauce we're using cream and chocolate but not just any chocolate,
this is Amedei Chuao the world's rarest chocolate.
Heat up your cream and then pour it over the chocolate and leave it for a moment so that
it can melt.
Then stir it through, keep on stirring until it comes together into a rich, smooth ganache.
Now that our ice cream base is chilled, tip it into an ice cream machine and churn it
for about 20 minutes or until it's fluffy and creamy.
Pour that into an airtight container, yum!
And then we want to freeze it for at least an hour more to let it firm up.
This dessert is topped with a sugar flower which they say takes 8 hours to make.
You can buy cutters and veiners to make these flowers quite quickly or most cake decorating
stores sell them pre-made ready for wedding cakes.
So then you can just spray those gold food colouring and that comes in a spray can or
you can get just the gold luster dust and mix it with vodka and paint that on.
Everything else in this dessert is purchased, it's not made at the restaurant, so let's
assemble one for a good friend of ours and we'll look at how much it actually costs afterwards.
Okay so we've got Tim here today, he has no idea why he's here.
No idea.
Tim, what you're actually about to partake in is the world's most expensive dessert that
retails for $1000 in America.
So we thought who could we give this dessert to and I decided Tim ... one, because he's
just started a YouTube channel which I'll link to below ... and two, because he does
a lot of artwork with gold leaf so I thought he'd actually appreciate the amount of gold
that goes into this dessert.
I love gold!
So, to start with Tim, what we're going to have is some gold leaf in our crystal goblet.
Nice.
Now this is edible gold, this is different to what you work with because what you work
with, doesn't matter if it's not 100% pure.
But because you're going to eat it, it can't have any heavy metal in it at all.
That's right.
Because then you would get rather unwell whcih is not the purpose of today.
Give you heavy metal poisoning.
No thanks.
That's 24-carat gold leaf there.
Then here we have some vanilla ice cream, which this is no normal vanilla ice cream
as you would expect.
It has been made with heaps of extra cream and really high-fat cream so it's going to
be the most creamy ice cream you've ever had.
And it's got Tahitian vanilla bean in there.
Tahitian?
To top that we're going to put some Madagascar vanilla bean on top, so we're going to scrape
the seeds out of that and put that on top so you get that really intense vanilla flavour
through your ice cream sundae.
Wow!
And now I don't know if that's enough gold, what do you think?
The more gold the better, that's what i think.
So we're going to put some gold on top of each one of these ice cream scoops.
Wow.
That's one.
This is incredible.
That's two.
And one more, why not?
That's three.
Do you reckon you're going to be able to eat all this?
I tell you what, I'll give it a good shot Ann, I'll do my best.
So we'll put these into here, there's one.
And then on top of there, we're going to put some dark chocolate sauce.
Now this is made with the rarest chocolate in the world which is Amedei Chuao which is
made from cocoa beans grown on an island just off the coast of Venezuala.
And they only make a certain amount each year so not much is made and that's why it's the
rarest.
So I can boast about eating this?
You can.
There we go, a generous amount of that one there.
Let's add the rest of our gold encrusted ice cream on top of here.
That's one, two.
Never did you think you'd be eating gold.
Now we have some candied fruit from Paris.
This is mango.
I love Paris.
Here we have some sugar-coated almonds that are then dipped in edible gold as well, this
is a very gold dessert.
Ok let's just put a few more on the plate for you for afterwards because you might still
be hungry.
Yeah.
We'll pop some chocolate truffles there too.
This is the world's most expensive chocolate.
I feel so overwhelmed, this is good.
It's like 'rich' ... get it?
It is, it's very rich, a very rich dessert.
So we'll put three squares of that on top for you, this one in here.
And then we have a sugar flower that is also coated in gold.
Are you serious?
Is that edible?
Oh of course it is!
Of course, everything is edible, it's a dessert.
There we go.
And there you have a 24-caret gold spoon to eat it with.
24-carat spoon, oh my gosh this is unbelievable!
Now there's one thing missing.
Yeah, what's that?
Some dessert caviar that has no salt.
And we tried to get it from America but they won't ship it to us because it's caviar and
it had to be refrigerated.
And we tried to make our own version and I tasted it and it's disgusting so I'm not putting
it on top.
This is pure!
Dig into that.
Absolute gold!
Well here we go, I want to get a little bit of everything.
So, so good, I'll hold the base here.
Now gold has no flavour but it does have a bit of a texture.
Hmmm, oh my gosh!
That's got to be the creamiest ice cream I've ever had, it's definitely going to get stuck
in my mustache which is always a problem.
You might get a gold coated mustache.
I've got to get some of this stuff from Paris going on ... get in there ...
Now the question is Tim, would you pay $1000 for a dessert.
If it was made by Ann Reardon I'd pay!
I mean, I don't have the money ... if I had the money and it was made by Ann Reardon then
I'd definitely pay.
This is unbelievable, this is easily the coolest, obviously the most expensive and definitely
the most delicious gold thing I've ever tasted in my life.
Ann, you're a master, an absolute master.
I love gold!
So how much does this Golden Opulence dessert actually cost to make?
Well the ice cream works out at about $1.75 per scoop and we have 3 scoops.
Then we scraped a Madagacan vanilla bean and added the seeds on top of each scoop and that
is another $2.10.
Next we added 2 sheets of gold leaf to the goblet and they cost $2.50 each.
And then we put another sheet of gold leaf on top of each scoop of ice cream.
Our chocolate sauce using Amedei Chuao works out at $4 per spoonful and we added 2 spoons
of that.
And then add the candied fruit from Paris and some sugar coated almonds that have been
dipped in gold and then some squares of the amedei chuao porcelana, the world's most expensive
chocolate.
Now we want to top that with the sugar flower which has been sprayed with edible gold colour
and a couple of chocolate truffles to the plate and a few more almonds and then of course,
half a little tub of caviar and that's the thing we couldn't get shipped to Australia.
But it would have cost us another $7.
So that brings the total cost to nearly $57.
So it's definitely a very special occasion dessert!
At Serendipity I must say you also do get to keep the goblet as well and you can buy
those exact ones that they use for $230 so that ups the price now to $287 for cost-price.
So they're still making a pretty good profit on it.
Share this video with someone you would like to eat this dessert with.
How many views did you have on your first video so far?
We had 9 views, I'm pumped!
I'm so excited but they weren't from around here, they were people I'd never met and for
me, that was the prize.
That was exciting.
So he's a total YouTube newbie so go check out his channel and make his day, write a
comment, click like.
Oh that is so kind.
Thanks for being a good sport Tim, coming and eating a gold dessert.
This was amazing, thank you so much Ann.
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