Lourdes water, whale sugar and a platinum coin in £3,000 mince pie

A mince pie worth £3,000 and thought to be the most expensive in the world is to go on show at an east London shopping centre.

The ingredients include platinum leaf, a solid platinum coin, holy water from Lourdes to bind the pastry, vanilla beans and cinnamon from eastern spice markets and highly prized ambergris sugar derived from sperm whale secretions.

The pastry lid was designed on a computer and cut with a laser. The pie will be on display for a month from Sunday at the Marvellous Mince Pie Manufactory, a mince pie workshop in The Exchange shopping centre in Ilford, where visitors can create their own "artisan" mince pies.

A prize draw on December 19 will give shoppers the chance to take home the pricey pie, which took Andrew Stellitano, who runs food design firm Astarism, more than a week to create. He said: "It's an extremely intricate design."