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New York restaurant offers $150 platinum-coated tequila donut

 

This isn’t your run-of-mill donut you'd find Homer Simpson drooling over.

Chef Bjorn DelaCruz of Brooklyn’s Manila Social Club has taken the popular North American treat to the next level with his US$150 silver-and-platinum coated and tequila-flavoured creation.

“It’s not like any other donut you’ve ever had before,” DelaCruz told Business Insider on Tuesday.

Despite its metallic exterior the Patron Platinum Donut is edible. On the inside, it is a rose-petal donut filled with cream and a spicy ginger-jalapeno margarita jelly.  

The outside it is covered with a sweet tequila frosting and edible sheets of silver and platinum.

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The creation was inspired by Gran Patron Platinum tequila and Patron Tequila’s “Margarita of the Year” recipe.

“When you eat this, you are not eating a margarita doughnut," DelaCruz told Business Insider.

The Manila Social Club in Brooklyn, New York is selling the Platinum Donut for charity until May 8.
The Manila Social Club in Brooklyn, New York is selling the Platinum Donut for charity until May 8.

He said instead the margarita flavours have been deconstructed and used to make a new taste as a donut.  

The sweet will only be available at the restaurant during Cinco de Mayo.

And while it comes with a hefty price tag, DelaCruz is donating all of the proceeds to the American Cancer Society.

The Patron Platinum Donut isn’t the only Kafkaesque food experiment DelaCruz has conducted.

He is also behind the Golden Cristal Ube Donut, which was covered in champagne and gold foil, and was sold for US$100.