Make Space In The Fridge, Messina’s Christmas Coma Is A Whole-Ass Trifle This Year

Get ready for what could quite possibly be one of the more luxe food comas to hit you over the holiday season, because Messina has announced its annual Christmas offering, and this year it’s a hell of a trifle.

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The Christmas Coma is coming back for its third run at the sweets table with a tropical twist on the overwhelming mess of the classic dessert, switching out the whipped cream, port-wine jelly, booze-soaked sponge and berries for passionfruit mousse, guava flummery (like jelly apparently?), a macadamia crunch, coconut chiboust (a lightly-whipped coconut cream), mango-soaked sponge, mango sorbet, topped with a chocolate coconut for good measure.

Ok so, I’m looking at this right, it seems like this Christmas Coma trifle might just be vegan? Unless that flummery has gelatin in it or something has some hidden milk or eggs in it.

If you were worried that it simply wasn’t boozy enough, the trifle also comes with a bottle of Messina’s rum custard, and I’m sure if you were really keen to turn the dessert into an adults-only version, you could probably drizzle some rum or brandy over the trifle yourself. Or like, inject it into that mango sponge. Just really MacGuyver some grog into that thing somehow. I believe in you.

Fun fact, the dessert at my family Christmas tends to feature two (2) trifles; one for the kids, and another entirely boozed-up one for the adults, that typically had so much grog in there that it’ll knock you on your ass after one serving. I consider it an edible aperitif.

On top of the Christmas Coma trifle this year, Messina is going to throw in some Chrissy crackers with special prizes in them like free scoops from your local Messina store and a year’s supply of the good shit for one (1) lucky bugger.

The Christmas Coma trifle will set you back $170 for a dessert that apparently serves 20-30 people (or like five, if you all leave enough gut space), and you can sign up for early ordering access on October 28 over on the Messina website. One thing to remember: these bad boys are pick-up only, so make sure you’re near your closest Messina shop when it’s ready to be taken home.

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