Only one cafe has it so far.
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.
A small fluted cake with a dark caramelised crust and a soft custard middle, flavoured with vanilla and rum.
Drawn as a canelés, the way Gold Coast cafes most often serve it.
We haven't seen it on a Gold Coast cafe menu or in a Gold Coast cafe's own post yet. Check back soon.
It's emerging: early days yet.
This is a small sample: 338 Gold Coast cafes with an Instagram post or a menu in the last 90 days, so a few cafes can move a figure.
Gold Coast searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
First Gold Coast cafe post or review in our data.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Of the cafes in Gold Coast that posted anything that month, how many posted canele, 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.
0.0 per 1,000 in Oct 2026
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
1suburb 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.
Data updated 15 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: one cafe has had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
A small fluted cake with a dark caramelised crust and a soft custard middle, flavoured with vanilla and rum. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 1 Gold Coast cafe across 1 suburb, in posts, customer reviews and menus.
There were 120 searches for canele in Gold Coast in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 50 searches (Dec 2024) to 120 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.
The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about canele that The Froth has is from 11 Oct 2026. 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.
It is on a bigger share of Melbourne cafes: 1.1% against Gold Coast's 0%, over the last 90 days.
A typical canelés, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with canelés (a vanilla and rum batter baked in fluted moulds until the crust caramelises; custardy inside). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for canele 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 (15 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.