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.
Naomi says
Hey there. I’m pretty low on all my oils/fats in the house. Could i maybe use Grapeseed for cake, and butter for topping? (instead of Coconut oil?)
Elana says
Naomi, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Ted says
Elana, wonderful wonderful! My wife has a nut issue so I substituted in apples and 3/4 teaspoon of vanilla. It’s our morning go to with our coffee!
Thanks
Ted
Elana says
Ted, you are so sweet and your wife is very lucky to have you bake for her! So glad to hear this is wonderful :-)
Cyndi says
Can you use coconut flour instead of almond flour? My daughter has a tree nut allergy. I would like to make this for Easter. It looks amazing
Elana says
Cyndi, thanks for your comment! For more on that go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/paleo-baking/
Enjoy!
Elana
Amy Wasserman says
This recipe is even better than the one in the almond flour cookbook! I had to bake it quite a bit longer. I used agave instead of honey since it was handier at that moment. I also used MCT oil for the coconut oil in the topping since the MCT was already liquid. I also skipped to sliced almonds. Bye, I almost never follow a recipe exactly.
I want to add a side note regarding coffee cakes. My mom used to make a recipe called “George Mardikian Armenian Coffee Cake” that has like a candied bottom. To me, it was the best coffee cake recipe. I happened to look up George Mardikian and saw he was some kind of celebrity chef. Anyway, his coffee cake recipe starts by mixing 2 cups brown sugar, 2 cups flour and 1/2 cup butter. Press half the mixture into the bottom of a 9” square pan.
When I made this (Elana’s) coffee cake, I mixed 1 cup coconut sugar, 1 cup almond flour and 1/4 cup coconut oil and pressed in the bottom of my pan before I followed Elana’s directions with the changes I already mentioned. My coffee cake tasted just like my mom’s! The bottom actually seemed sweeter than I remembered so perhaps any readers might want to tweak the amount of coconut sugar. Next time I might top the cake with just walnuts and cinnamon and skip the oil since the almond flour and walnuts already contain so much fat……although my cake did not seem oily at all.
As always, thank you Elana for your amazing recipes!!
Elana says
Thanks Amy!
Lisa says
Just made this this morning seeing if it might be good for Easter – and the tasting got a little out of control. So delicious! I definitely need to make another for Easter!
Thank you Elana – your recipes never let me down!! Love your work!
Lisa
Elana says
Lisa, what an awesome comment! So glad you love this cake as much as we do :-)
Alene says
This was very good. But I thought that the cinnamon walnut mix got lost on the bottom. I made it in a bundt pan. Maybe some could have been added to the bottom of the pan to add to the top of the coffee cake. If it were in a cake pan, I could have flipped it over on the serving plate. Also, I love what vanilla extract adds to baked goods, and I added more than you called for. It was perfect. Otherwise, this was lovely and will become my go -to coffee cake recipe. Thank you for such an easy and gluten free recipe!
Elana says
Alene, thanks for your comment! If you follow the recipe and use the method (i.e., baking pan I used) this will be perfect :-)
Lucia says
Hello – love this recipe! I’ve made it twice and it’s become a favourite.
I would like to make it this weekend for Easter and am wondering if I use a deeper cake pan if I can make it a two layer cake? Any suggestions on baking time if I attempt that?
Elana says
Lucia, I’m so happy to hear you love this recipe! I haven’t tried making this in a deeper pan so not sure if that would work. If you do experiment I hope you’ll report back :-)
Leeza says
Hi
Which other sweetener options would you suggest using? And how much of it?
I am following a Keto diet.
This looks delicious!
Elana says
Leeza, I haven’t tried that so not sure. Here’s a link to my Keto Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/keto-diet/
Enjoy!
Elana
Christine says
I can attest that this recipe is insanely good! Whenever we have a special occasion, I make this cinnamon cake the night before so we have it to look forward to in the morning. The most recent being my hubby’s 30 birthday! He said it was the only gift he needed. Lol. It takes a few minutes to whip together and really impresses with morning coffee. I don’t usually have coconut oil on hand, so substitute it for butter.
Elana says
Christine, thanks so very much for letting me know this cake is insanely good! Happy birthday to your husband and I’m so glad to be a part of your celebrations :-)
Mary K Jett says
Love your recipes. I am going to bake the Cinnamon Cake for Easter using the Golden Monk fruit for Easter. I have rheumatoid arthritis and use nut milks in place of dairy which have alleviated the pain tremulously. Thank you.
Elana says
Mary, you’re very welcome! Happy Easter in advance :-)