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Kanelbullens Dag 🤎 Let’s Celebrate The Cinnamon Bun
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It’s October 4th, the national day of the cinnamon bun or kanelbullens dag as we say here in Sweden. The love for the cinnamon bun here sure deserves its own day and in this list I will tell you about my favorite ones. Enjoy ♡
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Homemade ♡
 
Best Café Buns
 
Biggest Ones

Homemade ♡

There’s not much that beats a homemade cinnamon bun, especially my lovely mom’s. The delicious smell that’s in the house when baking, then to serve the warm bun with a cold glass of milk is just perfection ♡
 
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This is the recipe closest to the one I often use. The photos is of the ones I did for the summer, we loved to have these with us at the beach. Easy to freeze and tastes like freshly baked when reheating them.
Kanelbullar | Recipe on Swedish
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Recipe on English for these lovely cinnamon buns. Enjoy it warm with a cold glass of milk ♡
Delicious Swedish Cinnamon Buns
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This is a recipe of a sponge cake that tastes like a cinnamon bun. It’s amazing, fluffy, delicious and easy to make.
KanelbulleSockerkaka |CinnamonSpongeCake
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Best Café Buns

To sit down with friends or family at a café and have a cozy fika is just perfect. This is a list of some cafés and bakery’s that I think have the best cinnamon buns.
 
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This café in a small town called Väderstad is special to me because of my best grandpa (see picture 3). He started it and I’m happy it lives on with his recipes. The cinnamon buns here is very good and brings memories to me but no one does them like ...
Väderstad Centralkonditori
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In Stockholm, Södermalm you will find one of my favorites café Svedjan. The sourdough cinnamon bun here is delicious. When in Stockholm, Lillebrors bageri is also a favorite.
Svedjan Bageri Södermalm (@svedjanbagerisoder)
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On the biggest island of Sweden, Gotland, Visby you will find this fantastic café. If you translate Själsö to English it means Soul island and this place is good for your soul. These are the best buns I’ve tried. They’re buttery, sticky and just perf...
Själsö Bageri Gotland
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On the second biggest island of Sweden, Öland, you will find this lovely café and bakery. The sourdough bread and buns has high quality and they’re some of the best I had. The cinnamon bun here is just amazing.
Fredriks Bröd & Bakverk » Hantverksbageri i Färjestaden på Öland
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Babettes is a café in Linköping, close to my hometown which means I have many memories from this place. Besides from being a beautiful café, their cinnamon bun has won a gold medal as Swedens best bun. It’s the perfect sourdough bun. To celebrate bot...
Babettes Kafferi & Bageri
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Biggest Ones

As a girl who’s been living in Haga, Göteborg I can tell you that this place has the biggest cinnamon buns on almost every café.
 
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In this beautiful building you will find the cute café Husaren, which is the home to the most likely largest cinnamon bun in the world – the Hagabullen.
Café Husaren - Home Of Hagabullen
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Beside the big cinnamon buns this lovely café has the biggest cakes and pies. Been here many times since I was little, well worth a visit.
CAFE KONDITORI KRINGLAN, Göteborg - Haga
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