Gelato Messina: The Creative Department - Hardcover

Since opening in Sydney in 2002 Gelato Messina has set the benchmark for gelato in Australia. Their aim is simple: to create the best ice cream, using only the freshest ingredients, and to make everything from scratch. Gelato Messina take their gelato seriously, and the results can be seen in the fabulous and crazy creations that are displayed in their shop windows every day, particularly their famous ice-cream cakes. Gelato Messina: The Creative Department provides detailed instructions for creating Gelato Messina's most famous and elaborate gelato cakes-from Dr Evil's Magic Mushroom to Gelato Messina's very own take on the classic hamburger: The Royale with Cheese, made from chocolate gelati with passionfruit mustard, raspberry ketchup, white chocolate cheese, all served in a brioche bun. There is a whole chapter dedicated to weird and wonderful soft-serves and recipes for how to make your very own gelati monoportions-yes, it's fun to share, but it's even more fun to have a whole cake to yourself! With a killer design and mind-bending photography, Gelato Messina: The Creative Department is the must-have coffee-table cookbook for 2015. Not for the faint-hearted, and definitely for the young-at-heart, Gelato Messina: The Creative Department isn't just different, it's out of this world. Trust me, there're recipes in this book that you wouldn't dream existed. Prepare to be amazed! "Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal." - Voltaire "If you like to eat with your eyes. there's no doubting the eye-candy in this collation of "weird desserts" made at Messina" - Advertiser "If you are a pastry chef in the making then this book is for you. For the rest of us, it is more suited as a coffee table book." - Courier Mail "This sweet guide from the gelato kings is almost as mouth-watering as their lnstagram" - Elle Australia Comparative Titles: Gelato Messina: The Recipes (2013; over 10K copies sold in Australia)

Nick Palumbo's family hail from Messina in Sicily. Yet he has solidified his legendary identity within Australia: bringing Messina to us. After making gelato out of a factory under the name Gelativo, Nick decided to open a small gelato shop in Sydney's Darlinghurst. His ethos was to create the best gelato possible, using only the freshest ingredients, from scratch. Over time, he developed the individual, experimental, elaborate flavours that his stores are so famous for today. Not only are the Messina stores achieving great things-wih stores open in Australia, China, New Zealand and America-but Nick is personally achieving great things. He is the official chef for the Carpigiani Gelato University in Australia and New Zealand In 2011 he opened an ice cream lab, which is responsible for the ice cream works of art and single serve cakes that fill Gelato Messina's shop windows.