Everyone loves cupcakes, but only a serious cupcake connoisseur would consider splurging on these sugary delights below. Here are a few of the most expensive cupcakes in the world that money can buy.

Crave’s Maple Bacon Cupcake - $45 each

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The most affordable treat on this list is Crave’s Maple Bacon Cupcake which hails in Australia. Besides the bacon, sugar, and icing, it also comes with a champagne macaron.

Palazzo Decadence D’or Cupcake - $750

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Available at the Palazzo Resort in Las Vegas, this fancy cupcake includes edible gold flakes, gold-vanilla caviar, Palmira Single Estate chocolate, and some Louis XIII de Remy Martin Cognac bottled in 1900.

Bloomsbury’s Golden Phoenix - $1,000

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According to Shafeena Yusuff Ali, the founder of Bloomsbury’s Golden Phoenix, it took five weeks to develop the cupcake. Everything you see on in this pic is completely edible, and it even comes served on a Villari twenty-four carat Maria Antoinette Princess Tea Trolley.

Food Network UK’s Luxe Gold Cupcake - $1,227. 70

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The ingredients in this gauche-looking cake include champagne jam, buttercream made with Chateau Yquem, twenty-four carat gold leaf and its own bodyguard to keep watch as you chow down.

Food Network UK’s Cupcake Dress - $1,257

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This fancy edible dress comprises of 300 cupcakes. Definitely not something you'll want to wear while sprinting to the bathroom?

Mervis Diamond’s Fantasty Cupcake - $30,000

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Specially made to celebrate Mervis Diamond Importers' 100th anniversary, these cupcakes were decorated with eight brilliant diamonds.

Sparkling Red Velvet Cupcake - $55,000

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Here's a fancy idea for popping the question. Created by Philadelphia-based store Cupcakes Gourmet, this fancy cupcake includes an eight carat engagement ring in the center.

Rox Diamond Cupcake - $150,000

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Created in 2010 to mark the three-day Glam in the City fashion event in Scotland, this expensive cupcake is decorated with tens of tiny, valuable diamonds scattered throughout the yummy icing on top.