Dessert Happiness │Gelato Messina

Hiya friends,

Stressed spelt backwards is desserts so to overcome my extreme stress from the uni finals I decided to indulge myself with GELATO! It was worth it! My favourite dessert place in the world is Messina and I would recommend it to anyone! This is actually my second Messina post and I think about Messina a lot - read it here! 

Recently the annual Sydney Light festival Vivid special started and there was a Messina special of Psychedelic Psundaes and of course I was dying to try it out! Luckily I had the opportunity on Friday to try out these delicious Psundaes! 

Menu! 

Here is are the 4 different options they had for the Psundaes - yes it's a pretty pricey Psundae considering it's $10 EACH! So I would probably share one between 2 people but to be honest I think it's worth it! 

Blue gelato! 

The one we choose was the Silly Cone Chips which was swirled salted coconut and mango sorbet topped with choc chip cookies, blue popping candy and a banana-caramel filled cone. And boy it was worth the money! 

Swirrrrllllyyyy gelato 

Ok my camera doesn't have a flash so sorry for the lighting! But the gelato was SO YUMMY! Especially the banana caramel that filled the cone which was super fluffy and combined with the gelato was just heavenly! Of course being really childish but the popping candy was a nice touch as well! Overall it was a psundae that didn't disappoint! I really want to try all the other flavours as well! (Bringing a camera with a flash next time) 

TRY IT BEFORE VIVID FINISHES ON THE 9TH!! 

How the Psundae looks in normal lighting! 

Just some additional photos of Messina Gelato and a short review because I love them that much! 

Snack Attack ⁄⁄ Cupcakes On Pitt

Hi Friends! :) 

Recently I've been a few 21st here and there (so I wrote some tips which you can read here) and at one special lady's birthday we had some really delicious and adorable cupcakes! So here's a special blog post to thank Wendy ♥ HAPPY BIRTHDAY *again*!! 

Strawberry and Choco cupcake 

♣

Anyways on to the cupcakes! The one above is the Strawberry and Choco which is the one I ate! It's a basically Chocolate cupcakes with a hint of Strawberry filled with fresh strawberries and Strawberry butter cream! Yumminess to the maximum!  The cream was really fresh and SO SWEET! Definitely fulfilled my sugar requirement for the day!

Honeycomb! 

The second type of cupcakes is the Honeycomb cupcake! Rich chocolate cupcakes with honey icing and garnished with a shard of chocolate honeycomb! The honey icing looks amazing! 

Vanilla Sundae cupcake?! 

This is the prettiest cupcake ever! It's called a Vanilla Sundae! Basically Vanilla cupcakes with a Vanilla & Strawberry icing and garnished with 100,000 sprinkles, marachino cherry and cookie stick! So much creativity in a cupcake! Diabetes overload just looking at it! 

Cookies and Cream! 

OREOS! This is the Cookies and Cream cupcake! Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing and garnished with a dusting of chocolate and an Oreo! Btw is it normal to finish an entire packet of oreos in one sitting? Cause I did that...on Monday! *guilty look* 

Red Velvet with hearts! 

Sooo cute! These are the red velvet cupcakes! Too cute to eat! Too be honest red velvet isn't my favourite flavour of cupcake...it's quite far from it actually! I prefer chocolate! 

Passionfruit cupcakes! The star is soo cute! Vanilla cupcakes with fresh passion icing and garnished with an edible purple/blue star! 

Meringue cupcake? 

Last but not least this was the Lemon Meringue cupcake! Who knew these existed!  Vanilla cupcakes with fresh lemon curd inside and garnished with a soft torched Italian meringue! Love the texture of the meringue with the cupcake instead of the typical sweet creamy texture! 

Definitely enjoyed the cupcakes so much! They were a really good snack size and I'm so keen to visit the store now! 

♥ Lingfish 

P.S this proves I can take photos while tipsy HAAHAHHA

DELIA MWAMWA :) 

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Snack Attack ⁄⁄ The Dough Collective

This is my new post series for food!! Snack Attack which is for when I try new snacks or foods but not as a meal just as afternoon tea or desserts!!

The Dough Collective is the hot new bakery that opened recently on George St right near Events Cinema and it quickly caught my attention! Bread is amazing and nothing beats warm fresh bread! 

The best thing about The Dough Collective is THE SAMPLES OF BREAD!! I've tried almost everything because I ate all the samples! I adore the samples! And it makes me come back to them every time. 

After much bread tasting and difficult decision making I decided on the Chinese Longan Bun! It contains black glutinous rice, dried longan and black sesame! I've always loved longan ever since I was little and the dried longan filling was super generous combined with the chewy and soft bun I was sold!

It was sooo good. The gooey center! AHHH! Definitely makes a wonderful snack!

 The Dough Collective also has lots of other bread creations I'm dying to try! Top of my list is definitely the Hokkaido Azuki Toast! Red bean toast! And the sample was amazing! Can't wait to go and buy some! The Chocolate Surprise was also another delicious snack bun that I really want to try! The richness of chocolate is unbeatable! 

♥Lingfish - Happy Eating 

 

Top 15 Orgasmic Gelato flavours from Messina

Messina is one of my favourite gelato places – I tried it for the first time and I fell in LOVE with gelato! I’m so glad that there are now 3 different stores in Sydney and that so many people have become fans (like myself) but honestly I wish the lines could be shorter! Also that people could stop eating the flavours I want cause then it runs out and I can’t get any!

So here are the 15 Messina flavours I’ve been dying to try and I can dream of them in my sleep…  

1. Stranger with Candy - white chocolate and peanut gelato with candied peanuts. you can trust our stranger with candy.

Strangers with CANDY! 

Messina’s peanut butter gelato is one of my personal favourite regular flavours so I CANNOT go pass Strangers with candy! CANDIED PEANUTS! One of my favourite snacks nomnomnom! And I've actually tried this one and it was DELICIOUS (my only regret is that I didn't take a photo!) 

2. LITTLE BLOKE - peanut butter gelato with malt o milk biscuits and nutella fudge. Have a go at our little bloke

LITTLE BLOKE! 

You can see a clear pattern of my obsession with peanut butter gelato HAHA! But THIS LOOKS AMAZING and nutella fudge I repeat – NUTELLA FUDGE! Get in my stomach PLEASE!

 3. RETURN OF THE MAC - macadamia and milk chocolate gelato annihilated with white chocolate and macadamia cookies. The 'mac' daddy of gelato specials. 

Return of the MAC! 

The name of this flavor is the BOMB – the song instantly come into my head! MACADEMIA!! Did I mention I really love nuts?

 4. Fraga lickn' good - strawberry and coconut gelato with lychee bread and butter pudding.

Fraga Lickn' good

OMG STRAWBERRY AND COCONUT! AMAZING!!!!

 5. HAVE A GAY OLD TIME - caramel gelato swirled with milk gelato with bits of chocolate covered biscuit crumbs. 

GAY OLD TIME! 

YUMM! Sounds like a miracle. Love the sound of the texture!!!  

 6. ROBERT BROWNIE JNR - milk chocolate gelato with chocolate brownie and chocolate fudge. Let's go to town with Robert Brown.

BRING HIM TO ME! 

OMG CHOCOLATE HEAVEN! IT SOUNDS SO DELICIOUS I CANNOT EVEN! When I’m craving chocolate this would be perfect! PMS LIFESAVER! Should eat this while watching Iron man! 

7. TIM TAM SLAM - coffee gelato with chocolate biscuits, chocolate butter cream and choc chip sauce. This bad boy is just waiting to be slammed.

TIM TAMS MATE! 

;D AYE!! Another chocolate overload flavour – PMS lifesaver #2! Tim Tams ♥

 8. THE MIGHTY GM PIE - peanut butter gelato with chocolate crust, banana jam and peanut cream throughout. Nothing beats a cold GM pie on a hot day!!

GM PIE! 

Again with the peanut butter gelato!! But this time with even more textures - jam, crust and cream! NOMNOMNOM!

9. JD AND SMOKE - jack daniels and smoked chocolate gelato. this is some rocking ... chair gelato

Look at that smoothness! 

Alcohol + gelato = EPIC! This sounds like the great start to my weekend YAYYY!!

 10. LEAF LEAF BANG BANG - mango and coconut sorbet with pandan jelly. Little bit of leaf, whole lot of bang

My top fruit flavours mango and coconut with PANDAN JELLY? SOUNDS AMAZING! And it's something not choclately! 

 11. SALTY NUTS - peanut butter gelato with salted caramel throughout. Tasty balls of ice cream.. So many puns, so little time.

THEM NUTS! 

I’d like myself some salty nuts ;D Peanut butter + caramel = DAYUM! 

12. CREMINO - salted caramel gelato and crushed amaretti biscuits with soft meringue and nutella folded throughout. This might well be history in the making.. Hats off to one of the best desserts to have hit our lips..

This amazing creation!!! 

Need I say more?

13. THE BOSS'S WIFE - hazelnut and coffee gelato with white chocolate and hazelnut praline ganache. Never have we been so keen for a lick. 

For those that read my blog and know about my obsession with COFFEE - yeah you'll why I chose this flavour! My love of nuts and coffee combined AWW YEAH! 

14. MONIZZLE - caramel custard gelato with chocolate coated peanuts and blueberry sauce. let me here that izzle. PERSIAN ROCKY ROAD - white chocolate and rosewater gelato with housemade chunks of middle eastern flavoured rocky road. Fit for a prince.

The picture itself makes me DROOL! 

What is this magical creation? Sounds FANTASTIC!! Please release this flavour again!!!  

15. DONKEY KONG - peanut butter gelato with coffee custard and cocoa nib crunch. let's get it on.

Last but not LEAST!! 

You can see a common theme here right? Winning creation - peanut butter, chocolate, coffee and textures! 

If this post doesn't make you want to visit Messina I don't know what will! 

P.S All the photos were sourced from the Messina Facebook pages (this is why you shouldn't stay up past 2am because you'll look at food pictures and write blog posts!) 

♥ Lingfish 

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