It is on a small share of cafes (2.3% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
Fewer than 5 Gold Coast cafes have it, or the first cafe post or review we have is under 120 days old, or creators are posting it before any cafe has it. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Croissant dough baked in a muffin tin, rolled in sugar and often filled with a cream or curd.
Croissant dough baked in a muffin tin, rolled in sugar and often filled with a cream or curd.
Illustrative: a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one6 Gold Coast cafes: 5 on their menus, 1 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
6 cafes, cheapest first
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Gold Coast cafes with Cruffin on their menus or in their posts.
It's emerging: early days yet.
This is a small sample: 300 Gold Coast cafes with an Instagram post or a menu in the last 90 days, so a few cafes can move a figure.
10suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Gold Coast cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
4 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
Cruffin is on 5 Gold Coast cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 10 Gold Coast suburbs.
Croissant dough baked in a muffin tin, rolled in sugar and often filled with a cream or curd. A typical cruffin, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with custard (piped in from the top; some use jam or curd), cinnamon sugar (rolled in it while warm) and cruffin (laminated croissant dough, rolled up and baked in a muffin tin). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 11 Gold Coast cafes across 10 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 6 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 5 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Seadog in Burleigh Heads, KOVI Cafe in Ormeau, Andonis Cafe & Bar, Ormeau Hills in Ormeau Hills and Hudson & Rosie's Table in Highland Park. 1 more cafe has posted it, though it is not on its current menu. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every one, with the price where the menu gives one, links to the menu or post, and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.
The average is $7.77, from 5 Gold Coast cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $6 and $9.26; the lowest we have seen is $5 and the highest $9.50.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 2.3% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 1.2% in Melbourne and 1.1% in Brisbane.
It is early days. The Froth rates cruffin as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (2.3% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 2.3% of the Gold Coast cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 435 cafes we have followed through both periods, 2 of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before.
The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about cruffin that The Froth has is from 20 Sep 2025. We only see what we collect, so that is when we first saw it, not when it started: it may have been sold earlier, here or elsewhere.
A cafe counts for cruffin from the first public post or customer review we found about it, the cafe's own post or a customer's, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with an Instagram post or a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once. A change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before, only among cafes we have followed through both, so newly added cafes never look like growth. The 90 days end on the latest day with cafe posts or reviews (13 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Gold Coast with all of a trend's names added up. Captions stay private; we only link to public posts. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.