There is no single Australian stage: each city has its own, worked out from its own cafes with the same rules. This is the stage most of the cities share (Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Hobart); every city's own stage is in City by city.
Emerging: Fewer than 5 Sydney 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.
A small fluted cake with a dark caramelised crust and a soft custard middle, flavoured with vanilla and rum.
Biggest in Melbourne, on 1.1% of its cafes in the last 90 days. Search changes are Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025.
Each card counts the city's cafes with a post, a customer review or a current menu naming it in the last 90 days. Its share is of that city's own cafes, so a smaller city can be ahead.
We don't read Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart cafes' own posts yet, so their figures come from Google reviews and menus only.
“Where to get one” lists a different set: cafes with it on a current menu or in a cafe's or creator's post, whenever it was. That is why a city's count there is not the same.
Drawn as a canelés, the way cafes most often serve it.
48 cafes in 6 cities: 21 on their menus, 27 from posts.
Showing 10 of 48 cafes, cheapest first
Australian cafes with Canele on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the cafes whose menu lists canele in that flavour, in every city we read. Under each flavour is the menu line most of those cafes use.
A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
Searches are about level with a year earlier. (Aug to Oct 2026 vs Aug to Oct 2025)
Australia searches a month
Searches up by half on Nov 2024.
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Sydney searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
2,070 searches, the busiest month.
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Melbourne searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
2,880 searches, the busiest month.
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Brisbane searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
930 searches, the busiest month.
First Brisbane cafe post or review in our data.
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Gold Coast searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
First Gold Coast cafe post or review in our data.
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Perth searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
440 searches, the busiest month.
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Adelaide searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
280 searches, the busiest month.
First Adelaide review in our data.
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Canberra searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
220 searches, the busiest month.
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Hobart searches a month
50 searches, the busiest month.
First Hobart review in our data.
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Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Each city's part, Aug to Oct 2026.
Of the cafes across Australia 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.
3.3 per 1,000 in Oct 2026, about the same as Jun 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Australia.
21 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.
8cities where we've seen it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is how many cities had a cafe post or review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
Each city appears in the month of its earliest post or review in our data and grows as more of its suburbs have it. Its size is its cafes so far, never added to another city's.
Data updated 15 Nov 2026.
“Canele is on 48 cafe menus across 6 Australian cities, and furthest ahead in Melbourne (1.1% of its cafes).”
A small fluted cake with a dark caramelised crust and a soft custard middle, flavoured with vanilla and rum. The Froth has seen it at cafes in 8 Australian cities (Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Gold Coast and Hobart) as of 15 Nov 2026.
It is on 48 cafe menus across 6 cities right now, including Cafe Green Bean in Wynnum, Brisbane, Roslyn Thai Cafe in West Melbourne, Melbourne, Mylor General Store in Mylor, Adelaide and Seed On Soul Project in Hurstville, Sydney. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every menu, city by city, with the price where the menu gives one and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.
The average is $6.02, from 9 cafe menus in one city as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $4.56 and $7.60; the lowest we have seen is $4 and the highest $10. Each city's own average is on its page.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Melbourne has it on the biggest share of cafes: 1.1% of Melbourne cafes in the last 90 days, against 0.7% in Sydney and 0.3% in Perth. Each city's share is of its own cafes, so a smaller city can be ahead.
Searches for it across Australia were up 8% in Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025. There is no single Australian stage: each city has its own, from its own cafes. The Froth rates it Peaking in Melbourne; Emerging in Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Gold Coast and Hobart; Fading in Canberra as of 15 Nov 2026.
There were 5,990 searches for canele across Australia in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the months we have, from Jul 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 4,660 (Dec 2024) to 8,820 (Jul 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand across every state and territory.
The earliest cafe post or customer review about canele that The Froth has, in any city we read, is from 8 Aug 2022. 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 typical canelés, drawn from 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.
Every city is counted on its own, with the same rules: a cafe counts for canele from the first public post or customer review we found about it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. A city's share is of its own cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once), and its change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before. Cities' cafe figures are never added together, because we read some cities' posts and others only from reviews and menus. Searches are monthly search demand across Australia with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.