START booking your flights to Melbourne people. A one-day-only Nutella pop-up store, creatively named ‘Nutella Pop-Up’, is coming to town.

Paul and Lauren Kristoff are a young Melbourne couple who have been bunkered down in their apartment creating Nutella-themed treats for the past four months.

“My wife and I have always loved food,” Paul, 32, told news.com.au. “We do a lot of themed dinner parties and cook for our friends, so we thought, ‘Let’s make some Nutella treats and do a pop-up’.”

The couple will sell 500 Nutella ‘bento boxes’, priced at $10 each, at The Alehouse Project pub in Brunswick East on September 12.

The boxes will contain a Nutella peanut butter S’more (a biscuit and marshmallow sandwich), a salted caramel and Nutella chocolate truffle and a Nutella and maple tart with smocked hickory and Italian meringue.

Paul says he’s spent several hundred dollars on 1kg tubs of Nutella from Costco over the past four months, testing out different recipes.

“We had a few failures. Our nutella doughnuts were a disaster. It took a lot of taste testing with our friends,” he said.

“Whenever somebody had a house party or we’d meet up for drinks down at the pub we’d say, ‘Everybody don’t eat, because we have loads of samples for you to try’.”

Lauren has a severe nut allergy and wears gloves when she cooks with Nutella.

“She’ll go into anaphaltic shock,” Paul explained. “She’s OK to breathe it in, but if she touches it it’s no good. Sometimes I’ll be eating hazelnuts on the couch and she’ll have to move away.”

Nutella desserts are the latest food trend popping up in cafes and bakeries around Australia. The hazelnut spread has become so popular that there was a Nutella shortage throughout Melbourne and Sydney in July, Ferrero Australia confirmed at the time.

But Paul and Lauren, who run online culture and travel magazine City Lane, say the timing to their pop-up shop is a coincidence.

“My wife’s best friend loves eating the stuff so people around us have always loved Nutella,” said Paul. “It’s just a complete coincidence that this Nutella trend has kicked off since July, when they had a shortage.

“I’ve eaten Nutella since I was a kid — I had Nutella on toast all the time.”

The couple expect all 500 of the bento boxes to sell out.

“The only thing we’re disappointed about is that we’d love to produce a couple thousand, but we can’t.

“It’s just us and a few friends helping out and we hired a commercial kitchen. It’s the limit we can physically produce.”

The pop-up store will open from 9am on September 12.