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.
Stacy says
This is so moist and delicious!!! My husband and I are doing keto green, this really hits the spot! Mine isn’t as pretty as yours but it is scrumptious!thank you!
Elana says
Stacy, thanks for letting me know this is delicious and hits the spot!
Stacy says
I’m going to make it for Passover Seder!so happy it’s ok for Passover. Happy Passover to you and your family.
Elana says
Stacy, Happy Pesach to you and yours!
Amy says
What your favorite almond flour substitute? Almond sensitive too.
Elana says
Amy, I haven’t tried that so not sure. Here’s a link to my Nut-Free Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/nut-free-diet/
I hope you find something you like!
Elana
Marcia K says
I am looking for more simple recipes without dairy. Milk and milk products trigger GI issues for me. So do some coconut products, I suspect; I’ll be looking for a substitute for those. Thanks for re-posting this!
Elana says
Marcia, you’re welcome!
Debbie says
This cake is scrumptious! Made it as a birthday dessert and everyone loved it. I swapped the 1/2 cup of honey for 1/3 cup maple syrup and it was delicious. Keen to make the cinnamon bun muffins now!
Elana says
Debbie, thanks for letting me know that this cake is delicious!
Jodi says
Nice to know, I can’t do much honey since it’s high in fructose but can do maple syrup
Karen says
I can’t have any part of dairy. I react to it all so horribly I’m not even tempted to cheat….ever. Big inflammatory response and misery. If I don’t take charcoal, it takes months to get out of my body and I’m sick the entire time…up to four months. I travel with charcoal everywhere I go in case of accidental exposure to gluten, dairy, soy, or refined sugar. This recipe looks great. I have your cookbooks and love them. I’ll probably try this and cut the sweetener in half. I have a birthday coming up, so it would be good to try this and share it with friends.
Elana says
Karen, thanks for sharing your experience with dairy here!
Lynne Niznik says
I grew up in Wisconsin (the dairy state) eating dairy at every meal. I no longer eat ANY dairy because I am extremely gluten sensitive. The dairy protein chain is so close in structure to the gluten protein chain the body sees both as the same & attacks both. I feel awful when I eat dairy now so I don’t eat it any more.
Elana says
Lynne, thanks so much for your comment :-)
Jacalyn Holsted says
Definitely dairy free !!
Elana says
Thanks Jacalyn!
Tara Mills says
I love everything dairy but it doesn’t love me. I have a bad reaction to whey, not caseine, just the whey, which I’m told is unusual. Nevertheless, when I do eat dairy with low whey in it like hard cheese, I still get inflammation, thus, body aches. It’s hard because I crave all dairy foods.
Elana says
Tara, thanks for sharing your dairy-story here :-)
Lynn P. says
I make MANY of your recipes and have liked them all ! Next up on the list is this one starting today ! I am so grateful to have found Elana’s pantry on Instagram. It was the start of my healthy life style.
Elana says
Lynn, I’m so happy to meet you here and I’m glad you are enjoying my recipes!
nod w. says
is there a keto substitute for the honey?
Elana says
Nod, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Jennifer says
I made this yesterday and used Lakanto Golden sweetener. It turned out amazing! I started with 1/3 c but added a bit more (I think some of the “sweetness” bakes out) but not a full 2/3 c. Used in topping too. Baked it for about 30 min. It’s delicious!! Thank you for all your great recipes Elana!
Elana says
Jennifer, thanks for letting me know this cake is amazing!
joan says
This is definitely a repeated recipe…My friends request this yummy cake quite often. Many of your recipes that I make, are always enjoyed by my friends. Thank you for sharing.
Have a wonderful Passover holiday. Joan
Elana says
Joan, thanks for your sweet comment! I hope you and yours have a wonderful Pesach :-)