Messina Easter Egg: You'll need a long weekend for this 1-kilogram cheesecake treat

The ever-creative team at Gelato Messina first came up with the idea of a 1-kilogram Messina Easter egg last year. Serving six, the enormous Easter chocolate treat was a beautiful chaotic mess of Milo mousse with oreo crumble, hazelnut praline, malted vanilla chantilly and hazelnut caramel oozing from the centre. Now the team have switched up the flavour profile, pushing out another Messina Easter egg ahead of the big, chocolate-covered long weekend.

Easter is typically when Messina’s creativity comes to the fore, and they haven’t disappointed in 2025. The sightly hand-painted egg has a chocolate shell that cracks open to reveal layers of cheesecake mousse, pretzel crumb and milk chocolate clusters. Further inside: pretzel chocolate dip, Basque cheesecake gelato, baked cheesecake chunks and a soft pretzel caramel centre.

Unsurprisingly, Messina has only made a few of these special cheesecake easter eggs so they’ll undoubtedly sell out early, as they did last year. To steady yourself with a chance at taking a Messina easter egg home, have $80 ready go once online orders open on Thursday, March 27.

Once ordered successfully, you’ll be able to pick up your Messina easter egg from a local store between Thursday, April 17 and Sunday, April 20.

Are Easter eggs getting more expensive?

In 2024, confectionary giant Cadbury told Sydney Morning Herald that the company typically shifts more than 450 million chocolate Easter eggs and 15 million chocolate bunnies each year. That requires production of around two million Easter eggs per day

But your stock-standard Easter egg at the supermarket could end up costing more this year due to the soaring trading price of cocoa, which has skyrocketed from US$4,275 per tonne to US$8,000, breaking records of its previous peak in July 1977 when it was trading at US$4,663.

This is due to a number of factors but it seems a lot of has to do with weather. Heavy rainfall in the west African nations of Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast, where most of the world’s cocoa is produced, has resulted in a disease for the cocoa trees which then drastically impacts supply for the world’s artisanal chocolate makers. The harvests are smaller, hence there’s a spillover effect and the cost is ultimately passed on to the consumer.

We haven’t seen prices for chocolate soar as of yet because much of what was on the shelf in 2024 was made from chocolate that was purchased prior to the global shortages. This year could be dramatically difference, so do take note of the price tags next time you’re loading up on Easter eggs at your local supermarket.

Of course, none of them will reach the eye-watering price of $80. But then again, none of them weight 1-kilogram and feed up to six people.