Fairy floss has taken over as one of the most photogenic and delicious dessert options the world over, and of course, Melbourne isn't passing that challenge by!

May we present: the best place to get a truly outrageous fairy-floss themed treat in Melbourne. You're welcome!

Aqua S

Soft serve? Tick! fairy floss? Tick! Why not add sweet popcorn, popping candy and a grilled marshmallow on top too, eh? Triple tick! When it comes to decorated ice cream, Aqua S has taken it one hell of a step further with this dream-like concoction.

Change up your ice cream flavours as they do every two weeks, or go for the traditional sea salt flavour of this candy fun time. #YOLO!

Get it: 16 Red Cape Lane, QV Melbourne, Monday to Sunday, midday to 11 pm. 

Main image credit: Aqua S Facebook

Hash Specialty Coffee and Roasters

A hot chocolate with its own hashtag? It must be good!

Hardware Lane's Hash Specialty Coffee and Roasters has been serving up the Instagram-famous fairy-floss topped dessert drink made of Mork chocolate (so you know it's going to be a treat for the tastebuds) and a mound of frothy milk-flavoured fairy floss. Pour your flask of chocolate into your floss cup and you've got yourself the beverage of a lifetime.

Get it: 113 Hardware St, Melbourne, 7 am -4 pm weekdays, 8 am -4 pm weekends.

Long Story Short

Yeah, we've covered the magic that is the incredible dessert burger at Long Story Short before - which is why it 100% deserves to be in this spot of excellent flossy desserts!

it's not just pretty, but interactive too - pour your little jug of coconut milk over your plate piled high with fairy floss, only for it to disappear and reveal your real dessert - a brioche burger stuffed to the gills with 

Get it: 40 Crockford St, Port Melbourne, Mon - Fri (7 am - 3 pm), Sat-Sun (8 am - 3 pm) 

5 Lire

It wasn't going to be too long before we found ourselves face to face with Persian fairy floss in this list and now's our chance!

Nutella-ish semifreddo is smothered over buttermilk pancakes and dotted with chocolate fairy floss and cacao and the orange crumble is our vehicle of choice, and it's available at 5 Lire in North Melbourne. Yessssss.

Get it: 116 Errol Street, North Melbourne. Closed Mondays, but open 7 - 4 pm weekdays and 8 - 4 pm weekends.

Naughty Boy Cafe

Home of the Instashake, wrap your lips around the floss-topped eclair-style shake of salted caramel milk, Nutella, butterscotch filled éclair, caramel cream & honeycomb pieces, or why not try the berry cheesecake - berry ‘cheesecake’ milk, passionfruit curd, white chocolate mousse, freeze-dried fruits, berry cheesecake, fresh berries? Go on!

Get it: 499-501 Lygon Street, Carlton North/Princes Hill. Monday - Friday 7.30 am - 4 pm and 8 am-4 pm weekends.

Rock Sugar

For a little adult fun, Rock Sugar Melbourne is serving up fairy-floss martinis, where you pour your beaker of martini over your glass of fairy floss to watch it dissolve into a drink that will surely get you into trouble.

Get it: 477 Malvern Road, South Yarra

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