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.
Ellice Berg says
Can I use a flax egg and maple syrup instead of egg and honey
Elana says
Elice, I haven’t tried that for this recipe, but generally flax eggs don’t work in my recipes :-)
Myra Horst says
I make this one often. So delicious!!!
Elana says
Myra, thanks so much! We love it too :-)
Phyllis says
I have made this cake several times and it is always a hit. However, I do cut down the amount of sweeteners a bit (honey & coconut sugar) in both the cake itself as well as the topping as I find it a little too sweet. Thanks for this really lovely recipe.
Elana says
You’re welcome Phyllis!
Judit says
This is an amazing recipe. I used to add ground cardamom, ground nutmeg and a touch of cloves into topping. It is one of the most popular paleo cakes so far. Thank you Elana!
Elana says
Thanks Judit!
nicki says
i want to make this recipe. i live in the UK so cup measurements are not the same size. can you give me the measurements in weight volume please??
Elana says
Nicki, I’m so sorry, I don’t have that. Feel free to use an online converter :-)
Liz says
Nicki, I live in Australia and I just use Aus cup sizes but halve the sweeteners.
Lana says
Nutritional info would be helpful. How can this be keto with the honey in it?
Elana says
Lana, thanks so much for your comment! Here’s a link to my Keto Diet Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/keto-diet/
I provide nutrition info for all the recipes in my books. You can check it out here:
https://elanaspantry.com/nutrition-information-cookbooks/
Have a wonderful day!
Elana
Marymargaret says
That’s a lot of eggs to try and replace. Any viable alternatives?
Elana says
Marymargaret, thanks for your comment! Egg replacers don’t usually work in my recipes. Here’s a link to my Egg-Free Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/egg-free-diet/
I hope you find something you like!
Elana
Robyn says
How can I adjust this recipe using monk fruit or stevia powder instead of honey?
Thank you!
Elana says
Robyn, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Liz says
Robyn, I use monk fruit – use water with pure monk fruit powder for the honey – I usually halve the quantity i.e. 1/4 cup water + 1/8th to 1/4 monk fruit.
Mia says
This cake was absolutely divine. My husband regularly grabs a slice of coffee cake from our local baker down the street and I yearn for a slice of my own (but I’m GF). I was gifted a tin of your primal chocolate chip cookies Christmas 2020 from a family friend, and was hesitant to dig in, until she advised me that they are GF. I was so impressed with the taste (especially because I enjoy desserts, but not when they are too sickly sweet), I had to know where she got the recipe from. I have been using your website ever since. This recipe is my favorite so far. I found that it tasted even better on day 2. I only had Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Superfine Almond Flour, but that worked really well for me. And I use Himalayan Rock Salt instead of sea salt because of microplastics (although I have read that Celtic salt has some of the most minimal quantities of microplastics out of the sea salt varieties).
Bravo!!
Elana says
Mia, thanks for letting me know this cake was absolutely divine!
Deniseregina says
I like how you mix nutritive (honey/maple syrup) with nonnutritive (stevia) sweeteners in some of your newer recipes. I’ve made this many times before, but today I cut both sweeteners in half and added cinnamon stevia. Came out really well. Didn’t adjust for the liquid difference in the batter, but it seemed to come out more cake like, which was good. Of course, I added chopped apples to the topping, which negated some of the carb savings!
Elana says
Denise, thanks for your fantastic comment!