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August 12, 2012
Posted: 854 GMT
Remember the story about the world's most expensive cupcake in Dubai? Bloomsbury’s, a boutique cafe in Dubai, made headlines earlier this year for selling a chocolate cupcake – the 'Golden Phoenix' – for around $27,000. Since the cupcake first made its debut, the store has reportedly only sold two. And now, the shop's owner has said that part of the proceeds on sales will be donated to the United Nations World Food Programme, according to local newspapers in the United Arab Emirates. Here's the Abu Dhabi-based National newspaper on the cupcake:
"This unique partnership is evidence that behind the biggest talents and business ideas, you often find the bigger hearts," Hamouda told the National. "As I would put it, a golden heart behind every Golden Phoenix." Posted by: Jon Jensen
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