This P300k Ice Cream's Flavored With a Truffle With a "Sensual and Unique Scent"
The Guinness World Records calls it the world's most expensive ice cream.
How much would you pay for ice cream?
If that number goes over P300,000, then you’re in the range of the most expensive ice cream in the world—at 880,000 JPY, this white truffle gelato just broke the world record for most expensive ice cream.
Recently, Guinness World Records announced that Cellato, an ultra-luxe Japanese ice cream brand, has nabbed the record for Most Expensive Ice Cream with a gelato that’s made with two kinds of cheeses (which includes Parmigiano Reggiano), white truffle, and sake lees. It’s called Byakuya, and according to Cellato’s website, one 130-ml serving costs 880,000 JPY.
What Makes This Ice Cream So Expensive?
Cellato describes Byakuya as, “A rich and mellow gelato with two types of cheese as a base and white truffle with a sensual and unique scent.” It might be more common knowledge that Parmigiano cheese is expensive, but what really drives the price of this premium ice cream is the cost of the white truffles: they use a kind of rare white truffle grown only in Alba, Italy, which is priced at 2 million Japanese yen (that’s almost P800,000) per kilo!
Aside from the white truffles, they also feature the use of sake kasu or sake lees, a kind of white paste that’s a byproduct from sake production. Of this traditional Japanese ingredient, Cellato writes, “The faint sweetness and gorgeous ginjo incense give the scent of white truffles a complex flavor.”
The exquisiteness of Byakuya does not end with the creation of the ice cream, however. It is also served with “white truffles and parmigiano cheese that look like snow are luxuriously placed and decorated with gold leaf,” and it also comes with white truffle oil to give you that extra boost of fragrance. In fact, the site even instructs customers to mix the truffle oil into the ice cream until it’s soft enough to insert a spoon into it. Otherwise if the ice cream is too hard, Cellato advices to wait until the ice cream softens at room temperature or to pop it in a 500-watt microwave for 10 to 20 seconds.
It also comes with a metal spoon that’s handmade by Takeuchi craftsmen in Fushimi, Kyoto. And this isn’t just any kind of run-of-the-mill metal spoon: it is made with techniques and materials used in the constructions of traditional temples and shrines. You could get one of two different patterns randomly when you order.
Here’s what you get when you order Byakuya:
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