Daring dessert

Colombo, Sept. 24 (AP): This dessert may be a little too rich for you, but you’re probably not rich enough for it.

A Sri Lankan resort is charging $14,500 for what it calls the world’s most expensive dessert, a fruit-infused confection complete with a chocolate sculpture and a gigantic gemstone.

“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.

The dessert is a gold leaf Italian cassata flavoured with Irish cream, served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a champagne sabayon enlighten. It’s decorated with a chocolate carving of a fisherman clinging to a stilt — an age-old local fishing practice — and an 80 carat aquamarine stone.