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.
Jane says
I was wondering if Elena has given up on emails. I was getting the recipes that way quite regularly and all of a sudden they stopped. I’m not totally at peace relying on Facebook. Thoughts? Thanks a lot!
Melissa Thomson says
This is FANTASTIC! Thanks for yet another great recipe Elana!!
Jennifer says
I just made this last night to have for breakfast this morning, and it was amazing!
I reduced the honey to about 1/4C, but it still tasted great!
Instead of food processor, I just mixed wet -> dry in a big bowl with a whisk.
Thanks for this wonderful recipe!
MamaCassi says
Made these as muffins for a friend who needed travel cheats. AMAZING!
I didn’t measure carefully enough in the muffin pan so ended up making only 11, but could have had an even dozen if I had tried harder! Cooked for 25 minutes and it was hard to eat just one.
Natalie says
Most delish coffee cake ever!! Love this recipe. I did use coconut nectar instead of honey and it was perfect.
Patricia R. says
I have made this twice already and it is delicious. I love the cinnamon flavor and while it is best fresh, I love it the next day as well. Super delicious and tastes like the coffee cake I remember. I followed the recipe exactly but I’m sure some subs would work fine. I just happen to love coconut oil and I buy raw honey by the bucket so this recipe works perfect. I do use a parchment circle in the bottom to make it easier to take the cake out of the pan.
Angela says
Is this am adaptation of the Against All Grain apple cake? The cake ingredients are the same, excerpt for the apples and spice.
http://againstallgrain.com/2011/12/10/gluten-free-grain-free-apple-spice-coffe-cake/
Elana Amsterdam says
Hi Angela,
No, this Cinnamon Coffee Cake recipe is adapted from the one in my first book, The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook
, published in 2009 (page 24). It’s great to see so many people building off it as well.
Thanks,
Elana
MamaCassi says
oh wow! normally i only make coffeecake for my kids and mom friends and use sourdough brown rice, which i don’t eat. today i whipped this up for the kids and myself and it was PERFECT! rich, sweet, (i used butter) buttery, and a perfect Sunday breakfast.
i just am so grateful for your simple and delicious recipes! i don’t think i’d ever have treats if i hadn’t found your site! and with six small kids, treats bring me such joy.
Judith Norris Smith says
WOW…this is great in every way. Made for the first time yesterday. Ran out of coconut oil so topping was a mix of 2 Tbs of coconut and rest grapeseed oil. Also added coconut flakes to the toping. Had for breakfast this morning and WOW!! Thanks, Elana, for ALL your great recipes and information. My husband and I are mid 70’s with no digestive or diabetic problems, but eat healthy 95% of the time. I’ve been using Trader Joe’s Almond Meal for your recipes and it has worked out well. God Bless you.
Jennifer says
That last comment answered my question! I guess it is Passover-friendly. Might make it too!