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 (Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide); 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.
Micro means fewer than 10 cafes have posted it in the last 90 days in every city we track. The tag goes by itself once 10 or more cafes in any city have it.
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Biggest in Hobart, on 0.8% 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 Hobart and Adelaide 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.
22 cafes in 5 cities: 9 on their menus, 13 from posts.
Showing 10 of 22 cafes, cheapest first
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Australian cafes with Crookie on their menus or in their posts.
Searches are down 45% on a year earlier. (Aug to Oct 2026 vs Aug to Oct 2025)
Australia searches a month
1,300 searches, the busiest month.
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Sydney searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
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Melbourne searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
260 searches, the busiest month.
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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 crookie, 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.
1.0 per 1,000 in Oct 2026, down 9% vs Jun 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Australia.
9 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.
5cities 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.
“Crookie is on 22 cafe menus across 5 Australian cities, and furthest ahead in Hobart (0.8% of its cafes).”
A croissant filled with chocolate chip cookie dough and baked with more on top. The Froth has seen it at cafes in 5 Australian cities (Hobart, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne) as of 15 Nov 2026.
It is on 22 cafe menus across 5 cities right now, including Bumi Coffee in Hobart, Hobart, C'est Du Gateau Bakery in South Brisbane, Brisbane, Moon Hutt in Findon, Adelaide and Cutletscreations in Greystanes, 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.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Hobart has it on the biggest share of cafes: 0.8% of Hobart cafes in the last 90 days, against 0.5% in Brisbane and 0.3% in Sydney. Each city's share is of its own cafes, so a smaller city can be ahead.
Searches for it across Australia were down 45% 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 Fading in Hobart and Melbourne; Emerging in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide as of 15 Nov 2026.
There were 390 searches for crookie 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 320 (Dec 2025) to 3,600 (Jul 2024). These are monthly estimates of search demand across every state and territory.
The earliest cafe post or customer review about crookie that The Froth has, in any city we read, 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.
Every city is counted on its own, with the same rules: a cafe counts for crookie 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.