This Cupcake Costs $750. Repeat: This Cupcake Costs $750.

Thrillist ^ | Matthew Parvis

[DogByte6RER]

This cupcake costs $750. Repeat: this cupcake costs $750.

Maybe you shouldn't get one for everyone in the third-grade class.

Meet the $750 Decadence D'Or cupcake at Sweet Surrender inside the Palazzo. It's encased in a hand-blown sugar fleur-de-lis and crafted using chocolates that get more special attention during production than Rip Torn when the movie's shot in a whiskey bar. It's arguably better than the Hostess version. Here's how it breaks down:

• The Cake: Made from Palmira Single Estate chocolate, which was developed by Valrhona, a French chocolatier who planted a series of Criollo bean trees to create chocolate that's even better than a Scrumdiddlyumptious Bar. The chocolate is so legit it's released in vintages, with unique flavor notes and aromas including honey, caramel, lavender, vanilla, banana, orange blossom, and almonds.

• The Frosting: It starts with Charentes-Poitou AOC butter, made by a French butter cooperative founded in 1888 (love those French butter cooperatives), and contains zero artificial coloring, preservatives, or deacidifying substances. Then it gets some Tahitian Gold vanilla caviar mixed in, which comes from vanilla that is hand-pollinated, hand-harvested, and requires someone to manually split the vanilla beans and extract the seeds by hand.

• Louis XIII de Remy Martin Cognac: Once that sucker's done baking, they pour a little liquor out for the cupcake homies -- it's blended from 1200 cognacs ranging from 40-100yrs old.

• Edible Gold Flakes: Since apparently it was cool to decorate risotto with gold leaves in the 16th century, Sweet Surrender decided that, this thing being at the Palazzo and all, they should be placing edible gold flakes on top. And you hopefully decided to win a bunch at the craps table before buying it.

[DogByte6RER]

These $750.00 cupcakes will just end up as 'Scooby Snacks' for that pain in the @ss Obama dog ...

[edpc]

Well, here's the perfect item......

[Gay State Conservative]

If I was worth a billion I still wouldn't pay more than a few bucks for a cupcake.

[GeronL]

That is insane

Is Amy’s Baking Company involved in this?

[Army Air Corps]

Only if the cupcakes came from the store...

[Black Agnes]

Chocolate ping!

[who knows what evil?]

Yawn...where are the cronuts?

[onyx]

Thanks so much for the ping, Black Agnes.
That cupcake doesn’t even look appetizing to me.

[alphadoggie]

Anyone who would pay $750 for a cupcake is both a fool and a disgrace.

[tumblindice]

‘Keep walkin’ mister!’ Amy
;^)

[napscoordinator]

I love a good cupcake but I would never like that nasty looking thing. And I would never pay more than 2.50 for a cupcake (I know that is a bit much too but when you only want one.....).

[max americana]

i thought i was looking at a perfume case..

[Grams A]

Grandson went to the Dollar Tree with me yesterday. He picked up a box of Cocoa Puffs Cupcake and Muffin Mix for $1.00. Made the entire dozen this morning and he ate 6 of them. I can’t stand Cocoa Puffs cereal but I did eat one. Was pretty good and I bet as good as these $750 ones, at least to him. It all ends up the same place anyway so...

[azishot]

I knew this thread would interest you. Can’t think of anyone else to ping. (jab, jab, wink, wink.)

[Conservative4Ever]

No thanks...pass the ding dongs.

[Nifster]

I like Bo best of any of that O family

[Nepeta]

for that pain in the @ss Obama dog ...

The dog did not pick his people, or choose the way he is used as a prop in photos. He may in fact be a nice dog. I hope he is given to someone who likes dogs when the Obamas depart for Hawaii, the way Socks the Cat got several good years with Clinton's secretary after Bill was done.

[pops88]

To Do List for tomorrow-

1. Drop daughter a McCarran Airport

2. Swing by the Palazzo and laugh at a cupcake.

[SamAdams76]

Anyone who would pay $750 for a cupcake is both a fool and a disgrace.

Totally disagree and that's sort of an ignorant thing to say. Those people are actually doing a great service to capitalism and our economy.

Think of the waiter who will get a $150+ tip on that meal (at least). Think of how much money the chef and the owners of the restaurant will be making. All good.

I once got into an argument at work with somebody over Bill Gates' billion dollar luxury yacht. She was all indignant that people would spend that much money on a yacht. She went on to say that nobody should ever buy a luxury yacht because it is such a frivolous way to spend money when he could "spend it on the poor." Typical liberal argument.

I then went on to tell her that if people stopped buying luxury yachts, the entire industry would have to fold. Working people whose livelihoods depended upon building the yachts, sailing the yachts and maintaining the yachts, etc., would be cast out of work and they would then be joining the ranks of the poor. I went on to say that if we applied that reasoning to all luxuries, our economy would collapse and then most of us would be out of work and poor.

That did seem to shut her up.

[xp38]

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