Auckland’s Hill House Cafe is known for their family’s deliciously iconic cinnamon bun, but some changes have had to be made.
Formerly known as their ‘Cinna-buns’, the Hillsborough Cafe had to rename it after a US-based company, which launched its New Zealand-based franchise last year, issued a cease-and-desist.
“For years our cinnamon buns have been a symbol of love, nostalgia and joy - baked fresh every morning, passed across generations and shared with thousands of you who made them part of your own traditions,” the cafe shared in an Instagram post.
Hill House Cafe co-owner Leilana Meredith told RNZ’s Checkpoint that it’s “hard being a small local New Zealand business”.
The cafe took to social media to ask for ideas on the bun’s new name before settling on four options to vote between.
Yesterday, The Breeze Auckland Breakfast’s Jeanette Thomas and Robert Rakete held a special broadcast live from the cafe to announce Hill House’s new cinnamon bun name.
Hill House Cafe told Robert and Jeanette that they can sell anywhere between 400-500 buns on a good day.
With its warm pull-apart dough, sweet and spicy cinnamon filling and creamy icing, the announcement of its new name ‘Sin In a Bun’ seems very fitting indeed.
After a mandatory taste test, Robert and Jeanette declared the buns ‘the lightest and fluffiest thing they’ve ever tasted’.
With a new name in tow and plenty of eager watering mouths ready to try, the Hill House Cafe is sure to be pumping out their Sin In a Bun in even more quantities than before.
