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Last year, KukliFest, the Shrovetide Bun Festival, created by Tallinn\u2019s tourism and caf\u00e9 scene, was an obvious success. This year, the indulgence campaign is being held for the second time, and will last nearly five weeks, from 15 January to 17 February. Almost 50 caf\u00e9s and patisseries are taking part, offering a total of over 120 different bun variations. Some of the participating caf\u00e9s have multiple locations across the city: Reval Caf\u00e9 has as many as ten, Gustav Caf\u00e9 three, and Karjase Sail, P\u00f5hjala Deli, and Pelgu Pagar each have two.<\/p>\n
For a long time, the traditional Shrove bun in Estonia was filled only with whipped cream, until international influences introduced almond paste and jam versions. In addition to strawberry jam, KukliFest offers buns filled with, for example, cherry, lingonberry, blackberry, or even mango. In the hands of some local pastry chefs, the bun has even been reshaped into a Shrove croissant, and others have added a small amount of quark, vanilla cream, or various spices to the whipped cream.<\/p>\n
As in previous years, the festival\u2019s ambassador is Finnish travel influencer Henna Mikkil\u00e4<\/b>, familiar to many visitors to Tallinn and Estonia. Visit Tallinn<\/span><\/a><\/span> has also published interviews with four charming bakers on its themed page. Speaking in Finnish about their backgrounds and Shrove treats are representatives from the vegan caf\u00e9 Kringel, Healthy Sweets by Polina known for gluten and lactose-free pastries, the caf\u00e9\/patisserie Rukis preserving culinary craft traditions, and SUMI, a unique combination of brewery, restaurant, and bakery.<\/p>\n To help those with special diets, here is a small, though by no means comprehensive, list for finding treats. Gluten-free Shrovetide buns can be found at Kivi Paber K\u00e4\u00e4rid and Healthy Sweets by Polina, and possibly also at the waffle caf\u00e9 Vaffel, which is outside the festival. Vegan versions were offered last year at least by the vegan restaurant V, Kopli K\u00f6\u00f6k, Karu talu chocolate shop, and the Nihe, Kringel, and Rohe Caf\u00e9s\u2014the buns at the last two are also lactose-free. Read more about restaurants and caf\u00e9s serving vegan food in Tallinn here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n KukliFest is therefore not a single event, but a themed month offering winter indulgence moments across the city. Referring to the festival\u2019s climax, Shrove Tuesday, Tallinn\u2019s tourism pages ask with a twinkle in their eye: \u201cWhy settle for just one day?\u201d We couldn\u2019t agree more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last year, KukliFest, the Shrovetide Bun Festival, created by Tallinn\u2019s tourism and caf\u00e9 scene, was an obvious success. This … Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":143112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[20897,25120,26584,26585,26586,26587,13410,17749,17750],"class_list":["post-154173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-shrovetide","tag-cafes","tag-shrove-bun-festival","tag-kuklifest","tag-gluten-free","tag-shrove-bun","tag-vegan","tag-shrove-tuesday","tag-vastlakukkel"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154174,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154173\/revisions\/154174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}