How a basque cheesecake is built
This is basque cheesecake
- 1Burnt cheesecakebaked very hot until the top burns; no base, soft in the middle
- 2Creama spoonful of whipped cream or crème fraîche
- 3Berriessometimes, on the side
- 4Platea small round plate
Searches in Brisbane are up 25% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), though too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (2, against 2 in the 90 days before).
At least 10 cafes had it in the last 90 days, and either the number of the same cafes with it grew by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (counting only cafes we have read through both periods, and at least 10 of them), or it is new among them, or Brisbane searches rose by a quarter or more while those cafes held steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Burnt Basque cheesecake.
32 Brisbane cafes: 17 on their menus, 15 from posts.
Showing 10 of 32 cafes, cheapest first
Brisbane cafes with Basque cheesecake on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the Brisbane cafes whose menu lists basque cheesecake in that flavour. Under each flavour is the menu line most of those cafes use.
A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
Yes, it's rising.
Brisbane searches a month
First Brisbane cafe post or review in our data.
3,600 searches, the busiest month.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Of the cafes in Brisbane that posted anything that month, how many posted basque cheesecake, per 1,000 of them.
It is a share, not a count, so it does not grow just because we follow more cafes. It only grows when more of the cafes we follow take it up.
The month in progress shows here once it is complete, so a part month never reads as a drop. A month with too few cafes posting is left out.
10 per 1,000 in Oct 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Brisbane.
17 cafe menus
We started reading cafe menus in late 2026. Cafes adding and dropping it each month show here once the first whole month of menu reads is in.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
31suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Brisbane 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.
Each bar is the share of an area's cafes posting it in the last 90 days, from cafe and customer posts only. Tap an area to see it.
Basque cheesecake is on 17 Brisbane cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 31 Brisbane suburbs, while Brisbane searches for it rose 25% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
Burnt Basque cheesecake. A typical basque cheesecake, drawn from Brisbane cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with berries (sometimes, on the side), cream (a spoonful of whipped cream or crème fraîche) and burnt cheesecake (baked very hot until the top burns; no base, soft in the middle). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 37 Brisbane cafes across 31 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 32 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 Brisbane cafe menus right now, including C'est Du Gateau Bakery in South Brisbane, Little K Dessert in West End, DRZLE in Newstead and Wild Rose Cottage in Eastern Heights. 15 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 $10.47, from 10 Brisbane cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $6 and $18.20; the lowest we have seen is $6 and the highest $20.
It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 5.7% against Brisbane's 2.9%, over the last 90 days.
Brisbane cafes also sell basque cheesecake as "burnt basque" and "flavoured basque". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
Yes. The Froth rates basque cheesecake as Rising as of 14 Nov 2026: searches in Brisbane are up 25% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), though too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (2, against 2 in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 2.9% of the Brisbane cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,088 cafes we have followed through both periods, 2 of the same cafes had it, against 2 in the 90 days before. Brisbane searches for it were up 25% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 2,400 searches for basque cheesecake in Brisbane in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 1,900 searches (Feb 2025) to 3,600 (Aug 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Brisbane.
The earliest Brisbane cafe post or customer review about basque cheesecake that The Froth has is from 4 Apr 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 basque cheesecake 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 (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Brisbane 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.