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.
Jamie says
Elana –
How do you think grassfed butter would do in place of coconut oil? And if you think it might go over well, how much grassfed butter might you use?
I have recently cooked several batches of your chocolate chip cookies that call for grassfed butter and they are just to die for. I cannot keep them around longer than an afternoon!
Thanks!
Jamie
Elana says
Hi Jamie, I haven’t tried that so not sure. If you do please let us know how it goes.
Jamie says
HI Elana!
I did a test run of this today with grassfed butter. I want to serve this Christmas morning so figured I would test run it today. I subbed grassfed butter for both the cake and the topping (melted both times). I did a 1:1 conversion, so I used 1/4 cup melted butter in the cake and in the topping. It turned out FABULOUS. Moist, buttery, not too greasy. The only other changes I made were that I used pecans instead of almonds and I sprinkled some Enjoy Life chocolate chips on top. Amazing.
This recipe and your grassfed butter chocolate chip recipe are the only desserts I have ever made since going Paleo four years ago that make me feel like what I am eating is NOT paleo. I have never been satisfied with most almond flour or coconut flour “treats”! I am beyond impressed and so happy to use your recipes! Thank you!
Jamie
Lori Callo says
I made this recipe and it was absolutely delicious! I would like to make it in a 9 x 13 pan to make Cinnamon Coffee Cake bars should I double the recipe Elana? Thanks for all of your amazing recipes we love them!
Elana says
Hi Lori, I haven’t tried that so not sure if it will work. I’m concerned that if you double the recipe it may not cook through all the way. If you try it please stop back by and let us know if it works!
Melissia says
Just made it followings the recipe but adding teaspoon vanilla. At 25 mins the middle was not cooked. I left it in another 5 but the bottom and sides are now overdone borderline burnt. I did bake it in a metal round dish so might have to try with glass and adjust timing. Overall very good (eaten warm). Husband also liked it. Dense texture and a touch dry, yet oddly a hint greasy. I’d make it again though!
Elana says
Hi Melissia! Thanks for your comment. I too made this coffee cake in a metal pan, so that is probably not the issue. More critical to the success of the recipe would be the type/brand of almond flour you used. Let me know and I’ll help you troubleshoot this so it turns out perfectly next time :-)
Melissia says
I had at home and used Bobs but it was almond meal and not blanched so That definitely could have been the problem. I have Wegmans brand blanched almond meal flour, very fine so I’m going to make it again with that. It was really good the next day and so good with tea and coffee. I put the ingredients into MyFitness Pal for 9 servings and it came to 366 calories per serving, 25.9 g fat, 30 g carbs and 10 g protein. I’ll definitely make it again! Asking for your cookbook for Christmas. I’m a Spin instructor and my riders liked it too! Thanks!
Elana says
Hi Melissia, I think we’ve nailed the issue down –the unblanched almond meal unfortunately doesn’t work in my recipes. Here’s a link to the different brands of almond flour that do work:
https://elanaspantry.com/ingredients/almond-flour/
Thankfully, these online options are not only higher quality, but less expensive too. Happy spinning!
Elana
Bernette says
Hi guys I don’t see where coffee is used. Is there supposed to be coffee added somewhere?
Thanks
Erika S. says
You don’t actually use coffee in ANY Cinnamon Coffee Cake recipe…it’s something to have WITH coffee. :)
Amanda says
Oh no! I’ve made this delicious cake before, and maybe it’s because I’m tired but I spaced!!! I used COCONUT flour instead of almond! TOTALLY different flours! Whoops. Well I added more water, oil and some coconut milk, we’ll see if it at least make something edible!
Nichole says
Hi Elana,
I would like to make this and other desserts for a friend who is grain free however, she is allergic to almonds! Do you know if a substitute?
Thanks!
Suzanne says
I would like to add some pears into this recipe…and advice on how to make that successful? Thanks!
Mary says
Thanks for the great recipe – it was delicious!! All my workmates and the family gobbled it up. I don’t tolerate dairy very well so this is a welcome addition to my baking collection! Thanks again
Kym says
I like it…speak for yourself. Not all of us can tolerate regular flour. If you don’t like it and don’t want to eat the healthier alternative, don’t!
Leslie Parsons says
Hello Elana –
I have included raw dairy in my otherwise Paleo diet, with good results. However, I consider dairy to be part of agriculture and Paleo is supposed to be all about the PRE-AGRICULTURE diet. Because of my experience teaching gardening and helping farmers, I know that the food we get today is not possible without agriculture. Neither is it as nutritious as what our Paleo era ancestors were consuming. So, using Paleo as a model, we must create our best diet – definitely a work in progress!
Thanks for the great website,
Leslie
Jane says
I love your cinnamon coffee cake recipe. Your version is course made with more wholesome ingredients and it healthier too!