Tella Balls Dessert Bar creates new doughnuts with childhood favourite Golden Gaytime and Coco Pops
GROUND ZERO of Sydney’s doughnut-milkshake craze is going back to basics to help you relive the flavours of your childhood — Tella Balls Dessert Bar now has a Coco Pops creation on the menu.
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IT’S just like a chocolate milkshake, only crunchy — and oozing with it’s very own Tella Ball doughnut.
And it’s sitting next to a creation so sparkly and golden that the hashtags #shiny #unicornjuice and #goldentellaball are going to get a workout these school holidays.
Dulwich Hill's very own Tella Balls Dessert Bar has, as of today, four outlandish menu items — the Golden Tella Ball, the Choc Crackle Tella Ball, and their partners in crime the Golden Tella Ball Shake and Choc Crackle Tella Ball Shake.
Because, everyone knows that the only thing better than a doughnut with gold dust or everyone’s favourite cereal on top of it — is sticking that doughnut on top of a creamy delicious fresh shake.
The brains behind the viral food sensations Tella Balls and Tella Ball shake — Aki Daikos and Simon Kappotos — set themselves the challenge of bringing their childhood memories to life with these latest additions to the store.
“I used to eat coco pops like there was no tomorrow — I still do,” Mr Daikos said.
“In winter I’d get mum to warm the milk up and pour it over them, and if there was no milk I’d get some water on to them.
“I couldn’t get enough.
“And Golden Gaytime’s the same — I’d come home from school and I’d just smash a Golden Gaytime if I could.
“It didn’t get better than that.”
Spurred on by this nostalgia, and his drive to create the wacky, the delicious, and the Instamazing, the new creations at the Tella Balls Dessert Bar are a nod to the past, and a testament to the idea that dessert can only be limited by one’s imagination.
Something Mr Daikos and Mr Kappotos have by the Tella-bucket load.
The Golden Tella Ball is a delicious doughnut, filled with a caramel and butterscotch centre and topped with crumbly biscuits and sprinkled with gold dust.
The Choc Crackle Tella Ball is all about recreating a childhood breakfast and turning it into a sensational dessert.
The Choc Crackle Tella Ball is covered in chocolate and coco pops with a chocolate ganache and coco pops centre.
Both can be served individually, with vanilla bean gelato ice cream, or a top a chocolate or Gaytime-inspired Tella Ball shake.
“We want kids and parents alike to enjoy these Tella Balls and also pay homage to the sweet treats that we really got to enjoy as kids,” Mr Daikos said.
“And what better way to do so than bringing the Golden Tella Ball and the Choc Crackle Ball at the start of school holidays?”
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Both of these products will be available from April 11, but the Choc Crackle Tella Ball is only available for the duration of the school holidays and will disappear from shelves on April 26.
Tella Balls Dessert Bar is located at 370 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill. The dessert bar is open 7 days a week from 11am.
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