Golden Apple

Golden Apples are rare items found in dungeon chests. They can also be attained through crafting red apples and gold blocks together. Eating one completely restores the player's health, which no other food does. They are very hard to find, so they are mostly attained using an inventory editor. They are not very practical, as consuming multiple porkchops (or other food) can have the same effect, without the need for 72 gold ingots. A golden apple is still useful if in the night you need to restore health immediately due to mobs.

Crafting
A golden apple is crafted from a red apple with 8 gold blocks surrounding it:

Advantages

 * Golden apples restore all of your health.

Disadvantages

 * Apples are only found legitimately in Strongholds as of the Beta 1.8 Pre-Release, meaning they are a difficult item to obtain.
 * Golden apples are not time or resource efficient to craft; making just one requires 72 gold ingots.
 * As of the Beta 1.8 Pre-Release, Cake restores 9 full points on the Hunger bar. This means that cake is much better 'value for money', as it takes less time and difficult resources and heals more. (This is of course subject to change before Beta 1.8 is released.)

Trivia

 * Golden Apples have a 1/125 (.8%) chance of spawning in a Dungeon's chest.