Fewer of the same cafes had it lately (4, down from 10 in the 90 days before), while searches in Melbourne are about level (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
At least 17.5% of the cafes we see well had it in the last 90 days but searches are falling or well below their 12-month high, or fewer of the same cafes have it than in the 90 days before (from at least 10) while searches hold.
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 Melbourne cafes most often serve it.
24 Melbourne cafes: 10 on their menus, 14 from posts.
Showing 10 of 24 cafes, cheapest first
Melbourne cafes with Canele on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the Melbourne cafes whose menu lists canele 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.
It's peaking: popular, but maybe past its high.
Melbourne searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
2,880 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 Melbourne 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.
6.5 per 1,000 in Oct 2026, 1.3× vs Jun 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Melbourne.
10 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.
25suburbs 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.
6 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Canele is on 10 Melbourne cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 25 Melbourne suburbs.
A small fluted cake with a dark caramelised crust and a soft custard middle, flavoured with vanilla and rum. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 36 Melbourne cafes across 25 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 24 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 10 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including Roslyn Thai Cafe in West Melbourne, Éclair in Hampton, Amann Patisserie in Carlton North and Nice Guy Eddie Coffee + Kitchen (NGE) in Heidelberg Heights. 14 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 $6.02, from 9 Melbourne cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $4.56 and $7.60; the lowest we have seen is $4 and the highest $10.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Melbourne has it at 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.
It is popular, but may be past its high. The Froth rates canele as Peaking as of 14 Nov 2026: fewer of the same cafes had it lately (4, down from 10 in the 90 days before), while searches in Melbourne are about level (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 1.1% of the Melbourne cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,224 cafes we have followed through both periods, 4 of the same cafes had it, against 10 in the 90 days before (down 60%). Melbourne searches for it were up 10% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 2,220 searches for canele in Melbourne in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 1,740 searches (Dec 2024) to 2,880 (Sep 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Melbourne.
The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about canele that The Froth has 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 Melbourne 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 (14 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.