by sinamon | Feb 28, 2021 | Stories
By the start of 2021 the hard part of Covid Times was behind us. The Victoria Park store had been open for a few months, the queue was back, and the days started long before the sun did. Somewhere in the middle of all that, in early February 2021, a small white...
by sinamon | Oct 23, 2020 | Stories
In 2018 and 2019 I struggled to sell coffee. People queued on Walcott Street for cinnamon buns, walked straight past the espresso machine and went home happy. Our slogan was Coffee & Cinnamon Buns and I meant both halves of it, but Perth only heard the second...
by sinamon | Sep 30, 2020 | Stories
In the first days of March 2020 we were posting the Sinamon Cakes Project: triple hazelnut, apple custard, red velvet and devil’s food, the kind of thing you do when business is good and the biggest problem in your life is which cake to make next. The last post...
by sinamon | Apr 12, 2020 | Stories
Every baker has a country they need to see before they can call themselves serious about their thing. For pizza it is Italy. For croissants it is France. For cinnamon buns there is only one answer, and it is Sweden. Swedes eat more cinnamon buns per person than anyone...
by sinamon | Dec 30, 2019 | Stories
I am writing this in the last week of December with my feet up and the ovens finally cold, because for once the shop is closed for more than a day. 2019 did not leave much room for sitting down. This was the year our little cinnamon bun shop in Mount Lawley stopped...
