Homemade Cinnamon Coffee Cake is one of my favorite comfort foods.
Cinnamon Coffee Cake Recipe from Scratch
Growing up my parents bought a tasty frozen coffee cake at the grocery store as a special breakfast dessert treat. This is my healthy copycat version!
How to Make Cake with Almond Flour
If you’re wondering how to make cake with almond flour my healthy homemade coffee cake is the answer. This easy cake recipe is made with only six ingredients:
- Almond Flour
- Salt
- Baking Soda
- Coconut Oil
- Honey
- Eggs
You can throw this easy coffee cake recipe together in no time flat. The cinnamon topping has three additional ingredients –coconut sugar, cinnamon, and sliced almonds.
Cake with Almond Flour Recipes
As an aside, I love cake with almond flour because it’s the perfect low carb, rich base for gluten free cakes.
Recipe for Gluten Free Dessert
Like the one we used to buy, this almond flour cake recipe is moist and has a sweet cinnamon streusel topping.
Cinnamon Coffee Cake is absolutely perfect with a cup of my Dandelion Coffee on a lazy weekend morning.
Best Dessert Holiday Recipes
Homemade Cinnamon Coffee Cake is also a great cake recipe for Easter, Christmas, and birthdays. The list goes on and on!
Cinnamon Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 2½ cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- ½ cup honey
- 3 large eggs
Topping
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- ¼ cup coconut sugar
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- ½ cup sliced almonds
Instructions
- Grease a 9 inch springform pan with coconut oil and dust with almond flour
- In a food processor, combine almond flour, salt, and baking soda
- Pulse in coconut oil, honey, and eggs
- Spread the batter into prepared pan
- To make topping, combine coconut oil, coconut sugar, cinnamon, and sliced almonds in a small bowl
- Sprinkle topping over cake batter
- Bake at 350°F for 25-35 minutes
- Cool and serve
Cake Recipe Healthy for Mother’s Day
My easy cake recipe is also one of the best low carb almond flour recipes for Mother’s Day brunch –it’s a great gift for mom. I love it when the boys make me healthy almond flour cakes!
Kosher for Passover Cake with Almond Flour
This Cinnamon Coffee Cake with almond flour is also Kosher for Passover because like all of my recipes, it doesn’t contain chametz.
Gluten Free Cake Recipe from Scratch
I created this Cinnamon Coffee Cake recipe by adapting it from one pioneered in my first book, The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook, which I wrote back in 2008.
This book still sells like hotcakes, pardon the expression. Both coffee cake recipes are gluten free, dairy free almond flour recipes.
The Best Coffee Cake Recipe – But Where’s The Coffee?
American coffee cake is a tender cake with a rich topping baked into it. This type of coffee cake rarely, if ever, contains coffee.
It’s called coffee cake because it’s typically served at breakfast, or in the afternoon, along with coffee.
We often serve Cinnamon Coffee Cake for dessert after a festive meal. If you’re interested in coffee cake muffins, check out my Nut Free Pumpkin Coffee Cake Muffins.
Easy Recipes for Dessert
This Cinnamon Coffee Cake recipe is so versatile you can use it for breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner.
So many uses for one phenomenal recipe have made it super popular –it’s been shared on social media over forty thousand times!
Here are a couple other easy recipes for dessert:
Breakfast Ideas That Are Easy
In need of breakfast recipes that are easy, healthy, and delicious? Below are some of my favorites that are also great for brunch, lunch, or dinner.
A Fruit Salad Recipe
My Fruit Salad recipe is one of those super simple crowd pleasers. It’s a recipe for fruit salad that everyone loves!
Blueberry Coffee Cake
Since we’re all about simple cake recipes, I wanted to share the Blueberry Coffee Cake recipe from my third book Paleo Cooking from Elana’s Pantry.
Like my Cinnamon Coffee Cake recipe from scratch, it’s a fan favorite.
Apple Cake with Cinnamon
Cinnamon is one of my favorite super spices because it helps regulate blood sugar. My Easy Apple Cake recipe contains cinnamon, making it not just easy and delicious, but healthier too.
Made with an almond butter base, this is a great cake recipe for Easter, Passover, Rosh Hashanah, and more casual get togethers.
My recipe for Homemade Whipped Cream is the delicious topping you see in the photo above.
The Best Breakfast with Eggs Ideas: Recipe for Huevos Rancheros
My Huevos Rancheros recipe is a family favorite breakfast recipe in this house!
Breakfast Ideas with Eggs and Breakfast Sausage Recipe
Above is one of my favorite breakfast ideas with eggs from Paleo Cooking from Elana’s Pantry.
This Frittata recipe pairs perfectly with my Breakfast Sausage and Salsa Verde recipes, also found in the book.
Breakfast Ideas Vegan
My favorite breakfast that’s vegan? Pumpkin Cranberry Granola. Here are a couple of others:
Breakfast Ideas Healthy Easy
I hope you love these healthy brunch and breakfast ideas as much as we do!
I’ve included dishes like my fruit salad recipe, breakfast sausage recipe, and more, to set you up with some super easy healthy recipes to make over the holidays and anytime!
This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first shared this Cinnamon Coffee Cake recipe in March 2015.
Carolyn says
Dee, the coffee is to have it with the cake…….
Dee says
In Europe, “coffee cake” means “coffee-flavoured cake”
Judy says
Okay, but Elana is not from Europe. In the USofA a coffee cake usually has a crumb topping and is served WITH coffee. One of those cultural differences, like the English biscuit and the USofA cookie.
Dee says
Curious to know how you’ll make this coffee cake without the coffee measurement? How much coffee are you going to put in?
Donna says
“Coffee cake” is typically a term used to mean a cake to be eaten WITH coffee….not a “coffee” flavored cake. Hope you try this anyway, sounds delicious!
Erin says
I think coffee cake refers to a cake that is often eaten with coffee, not one that has coffee in it.
Regina says
Coffee goes in the cup and you drink it while you savour the cake! No, I’m not joking! :) A coffee cake is a wonderful cinammon flavored thing that goes too well with… Coffee!
Holly says
It’s not a literal reference to coffee being an ingredient in the recipe. Coffee cake is a type of sweet cake usually vanilla with a crumbly cinnamon/sugar topping. Ironically, it is best enjoyed (in my humble opinion) with a nice hot cup of coffee! I love Tecchino, a dandelion tea sweetened with stevia drops. Yum!
Cynthia Rose Webber Shell says
Awww that’s cute, made me laugh in a good way. That was a good question actually if one is not familiar with coffee cake. Still laughing. Not at you, just was not expecting it. Hmmm it might be a good idea to make a coffee flavored coffee cake…I’m in lol.
Jane Elspeth says
This is really gorgeous!!!! I will be trying it.
DamselflyDiary says
I am so excited and am going to make this coffee cake this weekend! I want to make it right now but it wouldn’t make it through the night! I too loved coffee cake when I was younger. We always made ours with Bisquick.
As far as the Paleo thing, I am not sure about it all. I am not currently Paleo but have been thinking about it because I have health issues that might be helped by being grain free.
Being a pescetarian for 25 years, I can’t quite get myself to eat meat yet. It would make it easier if I could still eat some dairy. But if I go for it, I might omit dairy at first, detoxify and then try adding it to see if I have any reactions. From my understanding a lot of people react to dairy but don’t know it.
Cynthia says
This is my first website response ever. I’ve wanted to say THANK YOU ELANA for some time. I am a life-long die-hard baker and when my naturopath told me I should really go paleo (as well as dairy/corn/soy-free), I had no idea how I would manage. She also told me about your website and it has been a life-saver.
I am also looking forward to this cake – I will try it with maple syrup rather than honey (my son cannot have honey and I live in Canada where we have lots of maple). Maple syrup has worked as a substitution in all of the baking recipes I have tried – for honey or agave.
I am about 80% pale and it has helped my digestion and improved my health through a difficult period.
Another substitution that works well for the soda bread is golden flax meal for 1/4 of the almond flour.
THANKS AGAIN
DamselflyDiary says
UPDATE: I made this recipe today with great success. I did not use a food processor but rather a stand mixer. I am too lazy to drag out my food processor whereas my stand mixer is always on my counter. Some recipes require the food processor but this one was fine in the mixer.
Also, I cut down on the cinnamon a little as I am not a strong cinnamon fan (about 1 and 1/2 tablespoons). I don’t really enjoy coconut sugar either. I find that it tastes burned and bitter. I used it in the recipe because I had some and wanted to follow the recipe as much as I could. But, next time I will use something else.
HINT: Consider making it in a spring form pan with a piece of parchment on the bottom. It makes it really easy to get out and slice. I use that pan for Elana’s Banana Chocolate Chip Cake too (in her cookbook).
Vickie says
I am allergic to cow’s milk and do not consider it to be paleo…..I have to use stevia for sweetener so how much is needed to replace the honey?
Thanks!!!
Vickie
Jenny says
I don’t see any cow’s milk in this coffee cake recipe.
Jenny says
Sorry Vickie-now I get what your were responding to; Elana’s question about whether or not you consider dairy to be paleo. :)
Charlotte Travis says
Vickie,
I don’t see any cow’s milk in the list of ingredients. I would like to know how much stevia to use also, because I don’t want to use that much honey.
Nadine says
I’d use half cup applesauce and 6 squirts Stevia Clear
Dee says
I was so excited to see a recipe for coffee cake – it’s my favourite cake flavour … but there’s no coffee in this recipe? How much coffee do you use?
Charlotte Travis says
Dee, Coffee cake doesn’t normally have coffee as part of the ingredients. It’s just called coffee cake because it is commonly served with coffee or tea, etc.
Charlotte
Fran says
I was also excited to get a coffee cake recipe only to discover no coffee in ingredients. In the UK coffee cake is cake that is flavoured with coffee, as any flavour cake goes with tea or coffee we just call cake by the flavours that are in it usually. What do you guys call cake flavoured with coffee?
Sheila says
I have never seen a cake made with coffee IN it! Sounds intriguing . Gonna ask Mr Google this one LOL.
Connie says
I would say a cake with coffee might be called an espresso or maybe mocha if they added some chocolate. May have to try that
Kathy Hoogeboom says
Does the pan have to be metal, I have a 9″ stoneware round pan, would that work?
Judy says
“Does the pan have to be metal…?” No, any pan with a similar volume and shape will work. You may have to bake a little longer or less because you changed the material of the container.
Jenny says
I used an Emile Henry pie dish, and it worked great. I just had to bake it for 40 min total.
Joanne Dannon says
What a fab and easy recipe!! Looks delish!!!! I’m going to use this for Passover (just around the corner) :)
Sandy says
Could I use almond pulp (from almond milk) that I ground into a flour instead of almond pulp?
Lisa says
Actually, that is what I tried this weekend. I was making almond milk and had read this recipe. I used 1.5 c of the almond pulp with 1 c of almond meal. The texture is denser than I think it would be with the almond meal, but it is very yummy. I baked it for the full 30 minutes also. Great recipe!