Most Expensive Mince Pie

For the foodie who has everything comes the most luxurious mince pie ever created.

The culinary delight, estimated to be worth £3,000, is currently on show at a London shopping centre. 

The pie uses a mix of traditional ingredients from recipes dating back to the 17th century. Added ingredients include the highest-grade platinum leaf, holy water from Lourdes to bind the pastry and wash all the ingredients, vanilla beans and cinnamon from eastern spice markets.

Highly prized ambergris sugar derived from sperm whale secretions has also been used.

And no pie would be complete without a solid Platinum coin in keeping with the British tradition of placing a silver coin in a Christmas cake or pudding.   

Andrew Stellitano   designed a mince pie  worth $4700 (£3,000)  and the pie was displayed at the exchange Shopping Mall  in  Ilford. Stellitano   runs a food design firm called   Astarism   and  took it upon himself  to dress the pie with all the extravaganza in the food world.

The pastry top was designed on a computer and laser cut to give it an intricate finish.

The pie is on display for a month at the Marvellous   Mince Pie Manufactory, at The Exchange shopping centre in Ilford, where visitors are invited to create their own versions.

The previous world record for the most expensive pie   was valued at £8,195 (then $14,260) or £1,024 (then $1,781) per slice when ordered by eight guests on 14 November 2005. The pie’s ingredients included £500 ($870) worth of Japanese wagyu beef fillet, Chinese matsutake mushrooms - so precious, they are harvested under guard, Winter Black truffles, French Bluefoot mushrooms at £200 per 1 kg ($348 per 2 lb 3 oz), gravy made from made two bottles of vintage 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine at £1,000 ($1,740) each and finally the pastry topped with edible gold leaf costing £100 ($174) per sheet. The largest mince pie  was set by the 1.02 tons  pie  set by  Ashby –de-la Douch  , Leicestershire, United Kingdom.  

The expensive Mince pie was designed on a computer and cut with a laser. It took Stellitano more than  a week  to create such an intricate design of the pie. A price draw was  arranged  for the shoppers to take home the  pricey pie.  Money raised will be donated to the Chigwell Riding Trust charity, a riding centre for people with special needs. 

The  Most expensive pie  was valued at  $4700 and was set by  Andrew Stellitano at Exchange Shopping Mall at London, United Kingdom on November 21, 2011.