It is on a small share of cafes (1.2% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
Fewer than 5 Melbourne 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 one30 Melbourne cafes: 17 on their menus, 13 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
Showing 10 of 30 cafes, cheapest first
Melbourne cafes with Cruffin on their menus or in their posts.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Share of each city's cafes posting it, last 90 days.
32suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Melbourne cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
14 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 17 Melbourne cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 32 Melbourne suburbs.
Croissant dough baked in a muffin tin, rolled in sugar and often filled with a cream or curd. A typical cruffin, drawn from Melbourne 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 32 Melbourne cafes across 32 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 30 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 17 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including Kuche in Kew East, Finders Keepers Cafe in Hawthorn, Tomo’s Little Collins in Melbourne and Tatin in Balwyn North. 13 more cafes have posted it, though it is not on their 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 $7.01, from 15 Melbourne cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $6 and $8.30; the lowest we have seen is $3.45 and the highest $9.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 2.3% against Melbourne's 1.2%, over the last 90 days.
It is early days. The Froth rates cruffin as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (1.2% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 1.2% of the Melbourne cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,204 cafes we have followed through both periods, 4 of the same cafes had it, against 6 in the 90 days before.
The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about cruffin that The Froth has is from 16 May 2024. 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 Melbourne 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.