This puts the “dough” into the donut.
New York City has been home to some spectacular food and drinks $28 Chicken Nuggets at Kodok sipping & Ghazal’s $150 Wagyu CheeseburgR. Now, Angelina Bakery is serving up what is arguably the crown jewel of spectacular desserts – a $300 gold and gem-encrusted Italian donut.
Offered exclusively at the sweet shop’s Lower East Side location at 1649 Third Avenue, this scrumptious dessert is truly a scrumptious dessert Bomboloni’s version, A type of Italian beignet sprinkled with sugar and filled with pastry cream.
Instead of the usual trimmings, this “golden masterpiece” is studded with “edible diamonds” and pearls and plated with 24-karat gold, mirroring an edible version of the gem exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, As per his now deleted post. instagram page, East Side Feed reported.
The bejeweled baked goods also come in their own vintage Tiffany box to complete the effect.
This would seem to be the ideal dessert for the following gold plated sardines In the wonderful world of Portuguese sardines, Empire Steakhouse’s Golden SteakAnd countless other examples of NYC’s ever-popular gilded gastronomy craze.
Three-figure pastries may sound like “conspicuous consumption” in the inflation-stricken Big Apple.
However, Tony Park, owner of Angelina Bakery, disagreed. “The clientele here (Upper East Side) is upscale, so the new Bomboloni seems like a perfect fit,” he told Page Six, adding that these hidden gems were selling like hotcakes.
This dessert seems par for the course, considering Angelina’s past stunts. These include serving ice cream from a custom Fiat car burn cake on valentines dayWhere the top layer is ignited so that it burns away to reveal the hidden image or drawing.
Although it’s safe to say that this bauble-festooned bomboloni takes the cake.
Customers must pre-order the high-carat confectionery two days in advance.
