Messina Wants You to Treat Your 2025 Valentine to a Heart-Topped Tub of Salted Caramel and Baked Cheesecake Gelato
This February 14 special also features dark choc chips, passionfruit curd, crème brûlée mousse and caramel swirls.
Is dessert your love language? Does nothing say romance to you like sharing something sweet with someone that you're sweet on? Do you just like treating your significant other — or yourself — to gelato specials? It's that time again, ice cream fiends: time to kick off 2025 with Messina's first decadent special for the year, and time to start thinking about Valentine's Day as well.
The cult-favourite dessert brand is taking care of both with The Love Tub, which comes topped with hearts — and features a red hue prominently — to stress the romantic point. Inside, you'll find a layered creation featuring salted caramel gelato with dark choc chips, plus baked cheesecake chunks and passionfruit curd, and also crème brûlée mousse and caramel swirls as well.
This is the latest dessert in Messina's hot-tub range, aka the chain's extra-special, always limited-edition, online-order-only dishes. And no, the word 'hot' doesn't reflect the required temperature; this is firmly a frosty affair.
While the dessert is timed for the supposedly most-romantic day of the year, who you share it and your Messina love with is up to you. Grab a spoon with your significant other, go all in for Galentine's Day instead, or treat yo'self to multiple days of red-topped gelato — the choice is obviously yours.
Tubs cost $48 each, and you'll need to place your order online on Tuesday, January 28. Because Messina's specials always prove popular, the brand usually staggers its on-sale times — which tends to mean different slots depending on whether you're in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, the ACT, Western Australia and South Australia, where the brand has shops.
Wherever you live, you can then pick up The Love Tub in-store between Thursday, February 13–Saturday, February 15.
Gelato Messina's The Love Tub will be available to order from Tuesday, January 28, 2025, with times usually varying per state and store — to pick up between Thursday, February 13–Saturday, February 15, 2025. Head to the Messina website for more information, and to sign up to be notified about on-sale details.
