Tartufo is an Italian dessert of gelato that originated in Pizzo, Calabria. It is a ball-shaped dessert composed of two or more flavors of gelato, often with melted chocolate inserted in the middle. The dessert is then dusted with cocoa powder or coated with chocolate or cocoa. The original recipe for Tartufo di Pizzo, which has protected geographical indication in Italy, consists of chocolate and hazelnut gelato balls filled with molten chocolate sauce and dusted in cocoa powder. The dessert was created in the early 1950s by a confectioners assistant known as Don Pippo, who ran out of molds used to shape the gelato and solved the problem by putting small portions of hazelnut gelato and chocolate gelato in the hollow of his hand, into which he added a bit of melted chocolate. He then wrapped everything in sugar paper, thereby creating the well-known shape of the tartufo that he then left to cool. Tartufo is usually composed of two flavors of gelato that are sculpted together by hand, and if there is fruit in the middle, it is usually a raspberry, strawberry, or cherry.