Overview
If you've been looking for an excuse to eat cake, don't wait around for the next office birthday. Gelato Messina thinks every day is a good day to eat an entire cake by yourself, which is why the frozen treats expert has launched a new range of its single-serve gelato cakes last year — and now its finally bringing them to Brisbane.
Already on the menu at Sydney's Rosebery and Darling Square outposts and Melbourne's Fitzroy, Messina Monoporzione (or Monos for short) is now available to buy at its South Brisbane digs. Unsurprisingly, these single-serve cakes are just as gorgeous as Messina's usual creations, but you don't have to share them.
The six adorable mini cakes include the brand's signature Dr Evil's Magic Mushroom (dark chocolate mousse with dulce de leche and peanut butter, placed atop edible grass) and the Bombe Alaska (marsala-soaked sponge cake, vanilla gelato, strawberry mousse and compote, wrapped in torched meringue).
Ballin'
There's also a striking bubble tea-shaped number — the white chocolate 'cup' is filled with earl grey and lychee mousse, topped with lychee compote and finished with a red and white striped chocolate 'straw'. Then there's the all-black Lamington³, with milk chocolate mousse, raspberry gel, coconut gelato and almond crunch.
For nut lovers, the final two in the Monos range are the spherical malt and peanut praline Ballin' and the Seymour Nuts: a disc of chocolate hazelnut ganache and hazelnut gelato, finished with caramel glaze and cocoa nibs.
These beautiful babies will cost you $12 a pop or, if you still have it in your mind to share, you can also nab a box of three or six for $33 and $63 respectively.
Gelato Messina's Monos are available in-store at Gelato Messina South Brisbane, 1/109 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane.
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