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.
Joan Sidney says
I’m using a little dairy very occasionally–it tastes so good!
Keera says
My son has an egg allergy so I need to substitute. I’ve heard though that 3 eggs plus shouldn’t be substituted. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks
Sarah says
I did this with flax eggs and it came out great
Keera says
Thanks :)
Judy says
Elana that looks like a great recipe. I had never thought about putting a few nuts(almonds) in a crumb topping. I will try it out when a friend who is a celiac comes over the next time for a cup of tea.
Minnie@thelady8home says
Thats a great simple easy to make recipe. Looking and sounding very delicious.
Mary Himmer says
I have read that coconut sugar does not kill the trees and also that it does. Do you have a source for that? Ayurveda teaches that cooking with honey is dangerous, even adding it to hot beverages with just the liquid hot. The reason seems to be that some of the flowers the bees pollinated may be toxic and the toxicity may come out when heated. At any rate, I have friends from India who are very strict on this, so I am looking for substitutes for honey when baking. I often use coconut sap sugar and have found that in Elana’s recipes I can substitute coconut sugar for the honey and be just fine even though one is wet and one is dry.
Fanfan says
Hi Mary, one now find coconut nectar which is ALSO wet. I will use this on place of honey…
naomi says
Coconut sugar is made from the nectar of the flowers. It does not hurt the tree.
Annie says
Was under the impression that coconut sugar was not so good for the environment. Unlike coconut oil or coconut flour, coconut sugar requires the killing of the tree? Cake looks good though…
Jenny says
This looks awesome and I can’t wait to try it! I think the dairy is kind of a personal choice. I like Chris Kresser’s approach to paleo; there doesn’t have to be any kind of paleo law that dictates whether a person is really paleo or not. I do think, though, as far as dairy goes, that one should be cautious and see how they react to it. My understanding is also that choosing raw dairy should lessen the chances of having a reaction. I am hoping to add in sheep and goat cheese one of these days, but I really don’t know if I will react or not. I definitely react to cow’s dairy, which I think is common for people like myself with autoimmune disease.
Judy says
Jenny do you know what part of cow’s milk you react to, i.e. is it the sugars or the proteins. In my case it is the casein protein, sheep and goat both have that protein just not as much.
Jenny says
Judy, I was muscle tested actually, and it showed that I reacted to the casein and the lactose. I understand that in sheep and goats dairy not only is it less but also different than cow’s dairy casein. I’ve been gun shy to try it… I am currently doing a heavy metal detox so will definitely wait until I get through that. I sure do miss cheese though!
Judy says
Jenny I have discovered casein is casein be it cow or goat/sheep for me.
I throughly understand about missing cheese, whipped cream and butter. I use ghee(clarified butter) because it is pure fat no little bits of casein in it. Elana has a recipe for a whipped Coconut Topping that works quite well. But for cheese, the subs don’t have the right flavors or mouth feel. So if I really need/want some cheese, I just go for it. About an ounce or so grated on whatever I’m eating and then deal with the aftermath (itchy skin and a little stomach distress).
Paula says
I’m very confused people are talking about dairy in the recipe – What dairy am I missing something? I don’t see any dairy at all.
DamselflyDiary says
People are referencing a comment at the end of the blog post about whether or not dairy is now considered Paleo, not the recipe itself. The recipe is dairy-free. Some people wrongly believe that eggs are dairy, but they are not. They are just kept in the same section as dairy in most grocery stores.
agnes gordon says
this recipe looks easy to make. Will try to bake it soon.Thanks
kristie says
Should the coconut oil be melted?
Judy says
I wouldn’t think so because it is pulsed in.
DamselflyDiary says
Yes, melt it.
Bev says
I don’t use oil at all (plant based) . What can I use ?
Judy says
Applesauce is what a lot of people use instead of oil. Experiment! That’s half the fun of cooking
Paula says
Coconut oils is plant based. I would use coconut oil