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[C]anel\u00e9, or cannel\u00e9 bordelais<\/em>, is a rich, French, vanilla bean, butter, and rum-infused cake with a devout following. Baked in bundt-shaped molds, with a dark, crunchy exterior\u2014carmelized to a warm mahogany\u2014and a spongy and rich center, canel\u00e9 offers an elegant dichotomy in flavor, with a taste that seems born to belong beside coffee. Next to petite macaron<\/em> and buttery croissant\u2014two French pastries that have infiltrated coffee culture admirably\u2014canel\u00e9 is a little bit of an unknown. But something this good doesn\u2019t stay secret for long, and though canel\u00e9 is most commonly spotted in French bakeries, coffee shops with room to bake are beginning to adopt it as a specialty.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople love them,\u201d says Joanthan Ory, chef and owner at Bad Wolf Coffee<\/a> in Chicago. Jonathan says that even with larger batches, sometimes fifty cakes at a time, he is likely to sell out at his small, Lakeview storefront. As canel\u00e9 starts to earn a cult following in the realm of artisan coffee, in cities like Chicago, Portland, and Los Angeles, its appearance is less uncommon, but rarely expected, keeping its coveted nature intact.<\/p>\n

Akin to house-kegged cold-brewed coffee on nitro, small-batch masala chai, and brown butter chocolate chip cookies, there is a slow-food appeal to canel\u00e9 that keeps it off too many menus. While not impossible to make, it takes skill to dial in canel\u00e9 just right. Jonathan spent time in high-end restaurants like Momofuku Ko<\/a> in New York and Schwa<\/a> in Chicago before opening Bad Wolf and was an accomplished chef when he set his mind on pastries. Still, the caf\u00e9 owner spent three years perfecting his canel\u00e9 recipe before selling the cakes in house.<\/p>\n

Not just tricky preparation, but tradition and history\u00a0also feed into canel\u00e9\u2019s grail-like status. Potentially invented by nuns in an eighteenth-century French convent, in the 1980s, eighty-eight patissiers in Bordeaux formed a brotherhood of pastries to protect the cake as their own. Canel\u00e9 de Bourdeaux<\/em> became the name of the official cake of the region, while cannel\u00e9 bordelais<\/em> is the generic variation found across the globe. (Savory and non-traditional canel\u00e9 would fall into this category, too.) Today both words are interchangeable, depending on who you ask. In Bourdeaux\u00a0they are traditionally served with wine or cocktails, and even available in the region\u2019s McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear how canel\u00e9 made its way from a French delicacy to a coffeehouse specialty; but it seems all too natural. \u201cI think it\u2019s just the latest thing,\u201d says Jonathan of canel\u00e9\u2019s rise to popularity among coffee connoisseurs. \u201cHowever, they kind of cross the board flavor wise. The outside is dark caramel and the inside is light and eggy with rum and vanilla. Pretty much everything that goes well with coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Regan Crisp is <\/em>Fresh Cup’s Associate Editor. Photo courtesy Bad Wolf Coffee<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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