A tartufo, please.
TAR-tu-fo — three syllables, stress on first.
When ordering the tartufo — an Italian ice cream dessert shaped like a truffle, filled with gelato and coated in chocolate or cocoa.
The dessert 'tartufo' (not to be confused with the funghi/truffle) is a ball of gelato — usually two flavours — coated in chocolate powder or melted chocolate. It was invented in Pizzo, Calabria, in the 1950s. Do not confuse with the truffle mushroom ('tartufo di terra').
Un tartufo di Pizzo.
A tartufo from Pizzo.
The original — Pizzo, Calabria, is the birthplace of the gelato tartufo
Il tartufo ha il cuore al cioccolato?
Does the tartufo have a chocolate centre?
Traditional tartufo has a molten chocolate centre — the defining characteristic
Un tartufo bianco e nero.
A black and white tartufo.
Two flavours — vanilla (white) and chocolate (black) — the classic combination
The tartufo was born in 1952 at Bar Dante in Pizzo, Calabria, when the gelatiere improvised a dessert by wrapping gelato around a hazelnut cream centre and rolling it in cocoa powder to resemble the prized black truffle. Pizzo now has an annual Tartufo Week festival celebrating its invention.