Doko Demo V restaurant launches vegan pot plant dessert on Gold Coast

A Gold Coast restaurant have taken their love of plants — and plant-based eating — to the next level by creating a vegan dessert of, well, a pot plant.

THIS cute pot plant is no decoration.

Instead, it’s a delectable dessert.

Chef Jared Peck and partner Vian Wu recently brought out their aptly named “pot plant dessert” at their Miami restaurant Doko Demo V — and it’s been a hit with customers ever since.

Jared Peck, owner of Doko Demo V at Miami, have come up a dessert that looked like a pot plant. Picture Glenn Hampson

“It looks like a piece of art,” Mr Peck said.

“But it tastes even better. People always want to take a photo of it.”

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Mr Peck said the idea came to life after he and Ms Wu went to Taiwan, gaining inspiration from the unique menu items they sampled there.

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Jared Peck, owner of Doko Demo V at Miami, have come up a dessert that looked like a pot plant. Picture Glenn Hampson

They then combined it with Ms Wu’s love of plants to create the plant-based dessert.

While Mr Peck couldn’t reveal his secret to how he got his plant’s “gravel” so realistic, he said the dessert was ice-cream based.

And customers could expect the crunchy “soil” topping and ice-cream’s delicious flavours of chocolate and caramel to combine, before it would “melt in your mouth”.

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“It took about two weeks to get it right,” Mr Peck said.

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“We played around with the pot as well, though you can’t eat it. We played around with 10 to 15 different dessert flavours … until we got it perfect.”

Mr Peck said the plant itself was a homegrown herb or edible flower they grew on site.

The dessert costs $7.