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.
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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.
Aimee says
Is there a different type of oil I can use? I have a strong distaste of anything coconut.
Elana says
Aimee, thanks for your comment. I agree, it’s a bummer when every paleo recipe ends up tasting like coconut. I think this one doesn’t have that issue so it may work for you as is. If you decide to replace the coconut with something else I hope you’ll let me know what works :-)
MorticiA says
I made this today. I used butter in place of coconut oil and the cake was delicious!
Erika Stiner says
This is AMAZING. I have made it several times and there are never any leftovers. My family requests this just about every weekend!
Elana says
Erika, thanks for letting me know this is AMAZING. My family loves it too :-)
Rosemary says
I’d love to make this but can I substitute anything else for the almond flour please?
Elana says
Rosemary, thanks for your question! I haven’t tried that so not sure. If you do experiment I hope you’ll let me know what works :-)
Judy E Hudgins says
I am dairy-free due to the sensitivity I have to dairy. It’s been a hard thing to adjust to, but I am gradually finding substitutes. Your recipes really help through all the items I am sensitive to.
Elana says
Judy, I’m so happy to help :-)
Sarah Lockhart-Palladino says
This was fantastic, and I even over-baked it just a tad. This was such a little gift, as I have been really struggling to get compliant with what I should eat due to my health issues and food allergies. This week I started to have a more severe response to taking in wheat (it’s starting to cause a mast cell activation response.). I knew I had to revisit your website and get in gear. I love a little something sweet with coffee on the weekend. I am allergic to most food molds, and after a toxic mold exposure, my body can’t handle molds at all. This is extremely limiting to what I can really eat – basically vegetables and meat. I still have to be careful with the Paleo flours, but this was what I needed to get back in gear. My food allergies have been such a loss for me as I have been baking and cooking since I was 10. I wanted to be a chef most of my teen years, but ultimately decided to keep it my hobby. I love all foods, and really enjoy Paleo eating. But it’s still a loss to accept as my health issues have compounded, I have to learn a whole new way to cook all the time (not just fun experimenting). Your website is my go-to due to the consistency your recipes turn out well. This means a lot, because of course these ingredients are expensive.
For the dairy – when I avoid it because I have Lyme disease I feel much better. But I find as I make the transition back having a little fermented dairy, and had cheese helps me a bit. A friend of mine just went to all goats milk products, or sheep’s cheese and swears by that.
Thanks again!
Elana says
Sarah, thanks for letting me know this cake is fantastic! Wow, what an amazing comment, thank you for being brave and candid about your healing journey and all the challenges you face. Let’s stay in touch and please keep me posted on how you’re doing :-)
Amanda Love says
I absolutely love this recipe. In fact, I have made it 3 times in the last 5 days! Twice for the clients I cook for and once for my family. I have found that it can easily burn so I tent it with foil the last 5 minutes. I also doubled the nuts and used pecans as we have so many here as a native nut in Texas. I added vanilla and subbed butter for the coconut oil. Simply heavenly!! Thank you, Elana! You are the almond flour whisperer!
Elana says
Amanda, thanks for letting me know that you absolutely love this recipe!
Camille says
Dear Elana,
I literally NEVER right reviews on blogs, but your recipes, especially this one, are so fantastic, I am compelled to let everyone know about my enthusiasm. I am a classically-trained professional cook. Right after my daughter was born, a culinary school classmate turned me on to your recipes and I started religiously using one of your almond flour pancake recipes — just to get more protein into my daughter.
Over a year ago, I learned that I had to cut out dairy and gluten from my diet. Given my love of baking — this was really hard!!! I especially miss cakes. I found your coffee cake recipe a few months ago and have varied it with different toppings and fillings and it ALWAYS works. The first time, I topped it with blackberries, sugar, amaretto and brandy — AMAZING! The second time, I used it as a base for a chocolate swirl cake, mixing in shaved bakers’ chocolate, cinnamon and sugar — SCRUMPTIOUS! Yesterday, I decided to use it for my pineapple upside down cake — honest to God it was the best upside down cake I’ve ever had! It was one of those culinary experiences that creates a forever memory and longing on your tastebuds. So, especially during this bleak time of uncertainty, thank you so much for helping me create such an incredible memory.
Elana says
Camille, what a darling comment! I wish we could get together and bake –maybe someday :-)
Camille says
It’s on my “I wish” list!
Elana says
Camille –mine too!
Carol says
Thank you Elana for this wonderful recipe! My family loves it tonight!
Elana says
Carol, you’re welcome!
Barbara says
Elena, I count on your tested recipes that are so simple and perfectly suited to our family and the food sensitivities. Were is the print option? Since the website changed, I have to copy and paste, rework the ingredients to line up. Thank you for introduction me to Almond Flour and for the many keto friendly recipes that are delicious.
Elana says
Barbara, thanks so much for letting me know you are enjoying my recipes!!! The print option is a little icon (image of a printer) at the top of the recipe, let me know if you need help with anything else :-)
Catherine Pendell says
This is a fantastic recipe. I have made it before. We will have it for Easter morning. You asked about dairy and the Paleo diet. My natural Dr. said it was not on the Paleo diet, but I now have osteoporosis and my other Dr. told me I had to have some dairy. I added back plain Greek yogurt, Parmesan and grass fed cheddar to my diet. I guess I am not truly Paleo anymore.
Elana says
Catherine, Thanks for letting me know this is a fantastic recipe. In terms of dairy, I’m now totally dairy-free, but I think the main thing is that we eat real food that is wholesome and healthy and avoid the processed stuff. When that happens we’re very much on the right track. Thanks for being on this healing path with me :-)