Meet the $100 Golden Cristal Ube Doughnut

one of the most exciting parts of office life is when a generous co-worker brings in a box of doughnuts to share well it's kind of sad that the bar for office excitement is set so low it's also a testament to how much we love a good doughnut the crystal golden Lube a doughnut a specialty of the Manila social club restaurant in New York City 

it can be yours for a measly $100 each doughnut is handcrafted using extensive ingredients the dough is what's known as hot as choux which is the same dough used in a players and cream cups the secret ingredient in the dough is ube flour which is derived from the ebay plant it's a sweet purple yam found in the Philippines and it gives the dough a vibrant purple color once they're formed and fried it's time to add filling purple ube mousse containing chunks of crystal jelly is piped into the donut they are then glazed and dusted with goals the final step is the careful application of 24 karat gold leaves