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.
Erika says
I made this tonight but changed up the topping. I used pecans instead of almonds and pulsed the whole thing together into a “crumble” texture. I spread it thickly over the top and it gave a great cinnamon sugar crunch to the cake. The cake itself is perfect in texture – moist with a good crumb. The household agreed that it would be the perfect accompaniment for a strong cup of coffee.
Nikki Ledford says
I love this recipe! I make the crumble with leftover pecan pulp from making pecan milk! It’s AMAZING.
Michi Grinder says
I made this coffee cake tonight and it was absolutely delicious! I will be making it again, soon. Thank you, Elana!
Sandra says
I had no clue this repice will be one of my my favourites! I had only three eggs and a broken car on yard so I chose this cake for our children to enjoy with their friend for a snack. This was amazing! Way too good and healthy! And no going nuts after too much sugar, yeah! And our car might be fixed today :)
kell says
omg, can’t believe all the comments about whether there’s actual coffee in it. Its a COFFEE CAKE. To be eaten with coffee in the morning. lol
I have gone GF and am always looking for recipes, and all I ever see is “this looks great, can’t wait to try it’ — I want to know how it WAS, by people who actually made the recipe! I saw one comment where the person talked about actually making it and all they mentioned was the substitutions they made. She did NOT say “oh wow, this was delicious” so I kind of have to assume it wasn’t…. ?
Rochelle Eissenstat says
As many others have written, the term Coffee Cake in the US refers to a cake that is a great accompaniment to a cup of coffee. It rarely has coffee as an ingredient!
But the Brits shouldn’t be SO flummoxed by this! They have a Madeira Cake, without any Madeira in it. It is a cake that was eaten to accompany a glass of Madeira. Tea Cakes don’t have tea as an ingredient, they may be cake or cookies (biscuits for Brits) and also have no tea in them. They are eaten with a cup of tea.
Nikki says
No, but we do have coffee cakes which ARE coffee flavoured, hence the confusion.
Sas says
Yeah, in the UK a coffee cake always has coffee in. It seems a bit odd to name it coffee cake just because you eat it with coffee – as far as I’m concerned ALL cakes go with coffee! But it has been explained now, so it’s all good!
Funnily enough I always assumed a teacake was called a teacake because you eat it for afternoon tea rather than because you eat it with tea, but I could wrong about that! You’re definitely correct about the madeira cake though.
I’d be interested to know what exactly makes a cake a “coffee cake” in American terms? Is it just a plain cake with cinnamon on?
Tracey-Lee says
Well in Australia “Coffee” in the title would make us all believe there was coffee in the recipe, just goes to show the difference across the world!!!
Sheridan says
Have you tried using some coconut flour in your recipes in place of almond flour? I noticed your chocolate ( beet) torte and read why you use beets instead of almond flour…to save on cost. What about coconut flour? I have found some good prices on that, and as far as I know it’s paleo. ( I have SIBO – Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth) and I am following the SCD diet blended with the FODMAP diet. It so far has helped me to eliminate the very painful symptoms of eating most everything else. ( I may have Crohn’s but I haven’t had that confirmed as I’d rather deal with it through diet and natural ways anyways…I am all about the non-invasive). So…for my very limited Paleo, and vegetarian diet, I have found adding in coconut flour has been fine for my digestive system. Perhaps you cannot digest this?
Michelle says
This was delicious! My GF super picky eater loved it! This one is a keeper.
kell says
Hey, a comment by someone who said it was delicious – thank you! LOL
Gaby Barcenas says
Oh my god, this looks delicious. Going home is one of my favorite things to do, because my little sister and I like to experiment with different recipes. I can’t wait to send this coffee cake recipe so that we can surprise our mother, together!
ASHLEE CRICHTON says
Hi there! Just made this. So good! Subbed walnuts for the almonds in the topping, it was delicious! Thanks for posting!