A precious stone dessert?

A luxury hotel in Sri Lanka is charging $14,500 a serving of the world's most expensive dessert. The dessert is made up of gold leaf Italian cassata flavored with Irish cream, served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a champagne sabayon enlighten. Decorated with a chocolate carving of a fisherman clinging to a stilt, inspiration comes from the resort’s logo of the ‘stilt fisherman’ an age old local fishing practice, and an 80 carat aquamarine stone. The aquamarine, mined in Sri Lanka, is worth $14,000.

The price of the dessert is due to ingredients like Dom Perignon champagne, gold and silver leaf -- and an 80-carat aquamarine the diameter of the head of a soup spoon set into the dish. They call it "The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence" was created to give visitors at The Fortress resort in the coastal city of Galle a one of a kind experience, said the hotel's public relations manager, Shalini Perera.

No one has actually purchased the dessert. Though the hotel has gotten calls about it from as far away as Japan, that will be coming in December, hoping that they will get one or two out before the year is up.

But of course, whoever orders the desert gets to take the stone home. They have written to the Guinness Book of World Records and they are awaiting their feedback.

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