Gelato Messina's Beautiful Handmade Chocolate Boxes Are Back for Mother's Day

Heads up, Mother's Day is just around the corner. Yep, you can pucker up on our tootsies later. But there's pressie planning afoot, and we've found quite the showstopper for your dear ol' Mumsie this year thanks to Gelato Messina.

Never one to miss an opportunity to experiment with new ways to inhale gelato, Messina have been cooking up quite the delicate novelty dessert for Mum: a Italian-inspired chocolate box of gelato-filled nibbles. These brownie point-winners launched in 2015, and are sure to bring it home again this year.

Each box comes with nine handmade chocolate and gelato bon bons; best enjoyed with opera blaring in the background, with a strong, black cup of coffee and a shoulder massage. Go on, your mum put up with you through puberty, you owe her one massage.

So which crazy tell-your-friends flavours have Messina come up with for their bitty bon bons? There's five in total, each more decadent than the last. Ready? There's orange custard gelato, Baileys and caramel milk chocolate fudge in a dark chocolate shell with ruby pearl dust. Shut up. There's gianduia gelato with caramelised banana and lime sable in a milk chocolate shell with gold dust and hazelnut praline. Huh? How about blood peach and marsala sorbet with pistachio ganache in a dark chocolate shell rolled in crushed pistachios? NUP. Or cream cheese gelato with blueberry gel, almond crunch in a white chocolate shell and wrapped in gold foil. If you can find us something that says 'perfect Mother's Day gift' better than cream cheese gelato covered in gold, we'll eat this empty bon bon box.

The Messina chocolate and gelato bon bon boxes are going for $35 a box, available to order now. They're available for collection from May 5-8 from Rosebery, Darlinghurst, Bondi, Miranda and Parramatta stores in Sydney, as well as the Fitzroy and Windsor stores.