A Sri Lankan resort hotel in Galle is charging $14,500 (£7,160) for what it calls the world's most expensive dessert. The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence is a gold leaf Italian cassata flavoured with Irish cream, served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a champagne sabayon. It is decorated with a chocolate carving of a fisherman clinging to a stilt - an old local fishing practice - and an 80 carat aquamarine stone. Though the hotel has received calls about it from as far away as Japan, a hotel spokeswoman said, no one had as yet forked out the money to try it.