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Cinnamon Bun Day
Sweden's Kanelbullens dag on 4 October, when bakeries sell kanelbullar scented with cinnamon and cardamom.

Spices for Cinnamon Bun Day
Since 1999 the Swedish Home Baking Council has marked 4 October as Cinnamon Bun Day. The kanelbulle is a yeast bun, rolled with butter, sugar and cinnamon and often with cardamom in the dough, which makes it distinctively Nordic. The fika coffee break is a daily ritual, and the day shows how cinnamon, a spice from far-off Sri Lanka, has become part of a Scandinavian tradition. Bakers sell millions of buns that day.
The spices
Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Cinnamon roll" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Cardamom: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cinnamon: Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0, source