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19 of the Best Cinnamon Scrolls in Melbourne Worth Every Sticky Bite
Craving the best cinny scrolls in Melbourne? These soft, sticky delights are your ticket to pastry heaven—no regrets.
Melbourne’s best cinnamon scrolls are sticky, buttery and worth crossing town for. From Sunny Day Scrolls in the CBD to cult favourites by Sebby’s Scrolls and Heart Bakes, local bakers are pushing the classic spiral far beyond cinnamon sugar, loading it with pistachio cream, Biscoff, chocolate and marshmallow, tiramisu, Vegemite and cheese, even pepperoni with hot honey.
This is doom-scrolling in its most delicious form: soft-centred buns, caramelised edges and icing that gets absolutely everywhere. Some are traditional, others are gloriously over the top, but every cinnamon scroll on this list has earned its place. Grab a coffee and prepare to lose several happy minutes to Melbourne’s finest swirls.
Sunny Day Scrolls
The team behind Bloomwood and Joey’s Doughies has given Melbourne’s scroll fixation its own Little Collins Street address, baking 15 sweet and savoury versions in small batches across the day. The pepperoni number, finished with stracciatella and hot honey, eats like pizza improved by pastry. Biscoff supplies the necessary biscuit rubble, but the blueberry cheesecake is the one still occupying our thoughts: jammy fruit, cool cream and cinnamon sharing the same soft, cream-soaked dough. Ask which tray has just landed, you won’t regret it.
Order one, or four, with a Matcha Cloud or the gloriously unsubtle Banana Pudding Latte, rich without tipping into cloying.
423 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Dance Bakes
Stop doom-scrolling: South Melbourne now has the only scrolls worth losing time to. Dance Bakes is the new cinnamon-spun bakery from the Heart Bakes team, turning its cult favourite into a full-blown scroll shop with soft, sticky, generously glazed spirals that make restraint feel like someone else’s problem.
The OG remains our favourite cinnamon scroll in Melbourne, plush, warm and thick with cream-cheese comfort, but the salted caramel banoffee comes dangerously close, bringing banana, caramel and full dessert-table drama. There is also a coffee-and-citrus Mont Blanc riff for anyone who likes their sugar hit with a little patisserie energy.
Next on our hit list: the savoury scrolls, because apparently lunch can spiral too. The cold brew also gets a very firm yes.
11 Union Street, South Melbourne
Roll Bae
Roll Bae has turned its pale-green Brunswick bakehouse into a temple to the sticky spiral. Scrolls emerge soft, warm and generously frosted, with flavours spanning classic cinnamon, pistachio, Biscoff, Bueno and a Nutella S’more layered with rich chocolate and gooey marshmallow. Savoury cravings are covered too: triple cheese and Vegemite delivers the nostalgic hit, while hot honey pepperoni crowned with cool stracciatella pushes the scroll firmly into lunch territory. Vegan flavours appear on Fridays, but arrive early because they regularly sell out.
99 Holmes Street, Brunswick
Simply Mike’s
At Simply Mike’s, French-trained pastry chef Mike Ying turns the cinnamon scroll into a four-day undertaking. The dough uses yudane, a Japanese technique that keeps it exceptionally soft and moist, before it is rolled with cinnamon and finished in flavours such as classic cream cheese, pistachio, Biscoff, coffee and carrot cake. Up to 650 are made on busy weekends.
The correct move is this: order a crème latte, scented with cinnamon and salted caramel, and eye off the pandan-custard croissant for later.
871 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Tyler’s Milk Bar
Tyler’s Milk Bar returns the cinnamon scroll to its natural habitat: a cheerful, retro corner shop run by sisters Sam and Alli Fisher. The changing cabinet has featured the classic scroll finished with cream-cheese whip, alongside apple streusel and custard, plus a plant-based coffee scroll with vanilla glaze, which is also a must-try. Almost everything is baked onsite, so flavours move with the day rather than following a fixed pastry menu. Pair your pick with a malted milkshake or an old-school spider.
656 Plenty Road, Preston
Everyday Coffee
Everyday Coffee calls its cinnamon scroll a Rhonda, and the name is only the beginning. The house-made pastry begins with 24-hour fermented brioche, laminated with Lard Ass butter into a croissant-style spiral with crisp edges, a soft centre and plenty of cinnamon. It’s perhaps more like a buttery breakfast pastry than icing-heavy bun, and is best paired with one of the Collingwood roastery’s changing espresso or filter coffees.
36-38 Sackville Street, Collingwood
La Croissanterie & Co
La Croissanterie & Co refuses to leave the cinnamon scroll alone, thankfully. The classic anchors the cabinet, but the Auburn Road bakery keeps sending out new editions: banoffee, pistachio, Ferrero Rocher, sticky-date pecan and the occasional maple-bacon curveball. The toppings may border on dessert, but the dough has enough substance to carry them. Check the daily specials before committing; tomorrow’s version may be the one everyone talks about.
305 Auburn Road, Hawthorn
Amann Patisserie
Amann Patisserie understands that a cinnamon scroll should still taste like bread. The bun is light but substantial, with enough chew to hold a generous cinnamon filling and a sweep of cream-cheese icing that melts into the warm layers. It is rich without becoming cloying, and substantial enough to call breakfast if nobody asks too many questions. Needless to say, we’re big fans.
645 Nicholson Street, Carlton North
Back Alley Bakes
Back Alley Bakes began in Gabriel Alonso and Alana Trevisan’s Preston garage before graduating to a pink roller door in Coburg North. The cinnamon scroll is no frosting pageant: sourdough tang, serious spice and dark, sticky edges do the work. A sticky-date version occasionally causes cabinet unrest, though the crois-sauso and filled morning buns make leaving with only one pastry a failure of imagination.
10 Leslie Avenue, Coburg North
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Heart Bakes
Heart Bakes makes the cinnamon scroll currently ruining all others for us. The dough has the springy softness of a milk bun, the spice reaches every morsel and the icing melts into the middle rather than sitting politely on top. That centre requires the biggest possible first bite. On rare, blessed occasions, a tiramisu scroll enters the equation and the classic briefly loses its crown.
220 Bridge Street, Port Melbourne
Sebby’s Scrolls
Sebby’s built a cult Melbourne following one pillowy coil at a time. Each scroll is baked in its own tin, leaving the outside caramelised and the centre soft beneath cinnamon, brown sugar and cream-cheese icing. A vegan cinnamon version and savoury Cheese & Vegemite scroll broaden the box, while monthly specials reward repeat visits. Order an Allpress coffee and arrive before the words “sold out” appear.
367 North Road, Caulfield South
2C Acland Street, St Kilda
Hector’s Bakery
The people behind Hector’s Deli have opened their Richmond production bakery to the public, which feels both generous and majorly tempting. Bakers work in full view while trays move towards the cabinet, including a cinnamon scroll wound tight with spice and finished with a thin, sticky glaze. Take the window seat above Richmond Station and eat it while everyone below continues making less interesting breakfast decisions.
33 Stewart Street, Richmond
LaManna
A cinnamon scroll is one thing. But this? This is a scroll you wake up thinking about. Fresh batches land from 9am daily, their pillowy coils buried beneath cream-cheese glaze, Biscoff or a crunchy Pistachio Papi finish that has zero interest in restraint. They are baked in-house and sold until gone, so the sensible move is to arrive before lunch and let the supermarket shop happen afterwards. LaManna, thank you.
10 English Street, Essendon Fields
Bloomwood
Bloomwood’s cinnamon-maple scroll looks as though it has been caught mid-melt: bronzed coils, a soft centre and glaze running into every crease. The Japandi-inspired bakery gives the classic a little CBD polish without sacrificing its sticky-handed appeal. Pair yours with an iced strawberry matcha, then take a strategic lap of the block before deciding against a second.
shop G01/121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
Bodie
Bodie’s classic cinnamon scroll earns its place with soft, generously spiced layers and caramelised edges that reward immediate attention. On Thursdays and Fridays, the bakery also rolls out a cinnamon-and-honey version, stickier, more fragrant and ever-so-easy to dismantle by hand. Grab whichever is warmest, then take the prized squishy centre somewhere nobody can ask for a bite.
144-148 Ferrars Street, South Melbourne
Heart Coffee
Richmond no longer needs to cross town for Heart Bakes’ famously soft, sticky cinnamon scrolls. Heart Coffee serves them fresh on Burnley Street, all pillowy layers, cinnamon-rich folds and the squishy centre we would defend with our lives. They remain our current Melbourne favourite, especially beside a strong coffee. Order early, then take the biggest bite before anybody asks to share.
378 Burnley Street, Richmond
Candied Bakery
Candied Bakery in Spotswood is the definition of cinnamon scroll bliss. The dough is soft and pillowy, wrapped around a warmly spiced filling before being finished with a lacquer of sugar. Order one while it is still warm, add coffee and accept that sharing was never a serious option.
136 Hall Street, Spotswood
Baker Bleu
Baker Bleu’s cinnamon scrolls have the chew of serious bread and the sticky pull of something far less sensible. The bakery’s signature sourdough lends the dough a gentle tang beneath the cinnamon sugar, with caramelised edges and a soft centre best dismantled coil by coil. They have a habit of disappearing early, so save the leisurely morning for another pastry.
Prahran, Caulfield North, and Cremorne
From buttery, crispy, and sugary to sticky, soft, and sweet, Melbourne’s cinnamon scroll scene is a love affair for the senses. For more indulgent bites and irresistible bakeries, dive into our guide and discover the city’s hidden pastry treasures.
