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.
Stefani says
I just wanted to let you know this is my go-to recipe; I’ve made it many, many times! Each time, I double the recipe (for my family of boys) and it turns out amazing. I’ve grown up with regular cinnamon coffee cake, but this one, by far, takes the cake! I even love it more the second day. Thank you for sharing.
Elana says
Stefani, I’m so happy to hear this is your go-to recipe and that it’s amazing!
Joanne says
Yum! I’m not on a specific diet, just love using almond flour because of the added protein and fiber. I made this with butter – had run out of coconut oil – and used a half recipe of topping. It was wonderful! Now, I’m looking forward to trying your sponge cake recipe!
Elana says
Joanne, thanks for letting me know this was wonderful!
Kjersti says
Thank you so much for this recipe! I was just lamenting the fact that I never make cinnamon coffee cake for my family. I loved the aroma of it as a child and the feeling of being pampered when I woke on a weekend to find a baked goodie. I seldom have carbs in the house. I stumbled across your recipe last week, and was pleased to note that I already had all the ingredients. I made it for my family this weekend. They all LOVED it. It’s not even as if they loved it, “for a low carb recipe,” but they loved how delicious and moist it was. Thank you so much Elana!!! I must get your cookbook!
Elana says
Thanks Kjersti! I’m so happy your family LOVED this recipe :-)
Sonya says
Can oat flour work for this recipe? I can’t use almond flour. If coconut flour is OK, do you know the ratios for the ingredients?
Elana says
Sonya, I’m so sorry, I haven’t eaten gluten-free flours such as oat flour since 2001 so not sure how that would work. In terms of coconut flour, I haven’t tried that in this recipe so not sure. Here’s a link to my Nut-Free Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/nut-free/
Enjoy!
Elana
Suki says
Hi Elana,
I’m looking for a light and fluffy sponge recipe for a cake. Any recommendations?
Elana says
Hi Suki, this is the recipe I use for sponge cake:
https://elanaspantry.com/passover-torte/
It’s more of a torte than a sponge cake, but it’s incredible.
Enjoy!
Elana
Tina says
I love this recipe as is, but wanted more cinnamon flavor. So I made a second batch of the topping without the slide almonds to put in the cake. I poured half the batter into the pan, spread it out as evenly as I could to the edges of the pan, drizzled the extra topping (no almonds) all over the top – covering it as best I could – and then pouring the remaining batter over the cinnamon mixture layer (spreading it out with my finger to cover the cinnamon layer as good as I could. Then I put the regular topping over that. YUMMMMMY!! The cake is a little more moist and the extra cinnamon sugar in the middle kicks the flavor up a notch.
Elana says
Tina, I’m so glad to hear you love this recipe!
Karen Luckhurst says
Hi – could you tell me how long this will store for? Sounds like it never gets that far, from the recipe, but I was hoping to make ahead for a retreat I am running.
warm regards
Karen
Elana says
Karen, I hope you’re retreat goes super well! For this cake, after you bake it let it sit on the counter overnight, then wrap it up and refrigerate for up to 1 week :-)
erinn says
Does it stay moist in the fridge?
Elana says
Erinn, if you want to store it allow it to cool overnight, then wrap it up and keep in the fridge :-)
me0wmix says
Absolutely amazing! Made for the first time this morning. Added just a bit of cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla to the batter. Then ran out of cinnamon (lol), so only got to use 1T for the topping. As a cinnamon lover, I probably would have appreciated the full amount, but certainly didn’t miss it. It was heavenly ~ fragrant, moist, rich, decadent (but CLEAN). Cutting through the crisp top layer giving way to the fluffy yellow cake was just to die for. The best coffee cake I have ever had, paleo or otherwise, and a huge hit with my family. Thank you, Elana! :)
Elana says
You’re welcome! So great to hear this was absolutely amazing, and the best coffee cake you’ve ever had!
Shannon says
I know this recipe has been up for a while, but I just made it for the first time and was so impressed! We don’t follow a specific diet, but I was cooking for a friend who does and made this in lieu of my grandma’s cinnamon-sugar coffee cake (white flour/sugar, sour cream, etc.) This tastes just like it, but has the added bonus of being way quicker to put together. Thanks so much for a wholesome and tasty treat!
Elana says
Shannon, so glad to hear this tasted just like your grandma’s coffee cake!
Erin says
Thank you so much for this recipe! My grandmother made the best coffee cake and I love it but wanted to find a paleo alternative and this tastes just like it! Wondering though, could I make this chocolate somehow? Coffee cake and chocolate are my husbands 2 favorite things and his birthday is coming up so I wanted to combine the two. Any ideas? Thank you!
Elana says
Hi Erin, I haven’t experimented with making this chocolate, if you do please let us know how it goes. So glad to hear that this tastes like the real thing!
Leslie Cheaney says
Just tried this and added 3 Tablespoons coco powder, it came out wonderful! All 7 in our family loved it! Teenager approved.
Elana says
Leslie, I’m so happy to hear that this cake was teenager approved and wonderful :-)
Jennifer says
I didn’t have any nuts in the house, so I used chocolate chips in the topping, and it was delicious!
Elana says
Thanks Jennifer! I’m so happy to hear this cake is delicious :-)
Anne Texas says
Darnit…the almond flour overcooked, the top was almost burnt but the cake was still sloshing around in the middle of the pan.. I have an oven thermometer to make sure the temp is correct and I used s/s 9″ pan. Maybe it should be cooked at a lower temp for longer? I find almond flour to be difficult not to over brown.
Elana says
Thanks for your comment Anne. This type of issue usually happens when almond meal is used instead of almond flour :-)