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.
Michele says
I made this and shared it with my co-workers. Nobody could believe it was gluten-free. My husband LOVED it. And, it stayed tasting fresh for the 3 days I had it wrapped in individual pieces. Thanks so much for this and all the recipes I have tried successfully on this wonderful website.
Elana says
Michele, you’re welcome! So glad that you and your co-workers enjoyed the Cinnamon Coffee Cake.
Deb says
Fantastic coffee cake! Moist with a wonderful crumb topping. I had to replace the honey and coconut sugar, so I used Erythritol in equal quantities listed for the cake and the topping, worked fine. Thank you for sharing this recipe! Can’t wait to try your bread recipes. Really miss these types of treats and now I do not have to miss them at all.
Elana says
Deb, thanks for your awesome comment and for letting us know that your substitution worked out!
Rachel Watson says
Wow… it looks so yummy. I wish I could have it right now. Well good luck for your future, you are a living legend. I am gonna try it myself this weekend, hopefully. Yayyyyy
Kelly U. says
I do not like coconut. Does this bread taste like coconut due to the coconut oil and coconut sugar?
Elana says
Hi Kelly, if you have a serious aversion to the flavor of coconut oil you might not like this cake. Thanks for stopping by!
Gina says
Coconut sugar does not taste like coconut at all. It tastes a little like brown sugar. Coconut oil has a faint coconut taste if you buy the unrefined kind (it’s on the label if it is), but I fry eggs in it, so it’s faint. You can buy refined coconut oil that is flavorless.
judi says
Hi Elana,
I am interested in two recipes. Can the cinnamon coffee cake be made ahead? Can it be frozen?
Can the cherry apricot cake be made ahead? Can that be frozen?
Thanks
Elana says
Hi Judi, I haven’t tried that so not sure. If you do will you stop back by and let us know if it worked? Thanks!
Christy Ward says
I freeze the cherry apricot cake all the time…works great!
Christy
Tonya B says
Is there a recommemdation for those of us that also need to be nut free?
Elana says
Hi Tonya, here’s a link to my Nut-Free Recipes page:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/nut-free/
I think you’ll find lots of great options here!
Elana
Arianne says
I want to start making something like this, sounds very yummy. I found the Elana’s Pantry Web site when I first started researching Paleo in 2012, because I learned through an elimination diet that wheat and dairy trigger reactions in the autoimmune disorder, HS, that I have. No, I can’t drink dairy even if it is considered Paleo now. I was using the Paleo diet for the fact that it already eliminated the foods I can’t eat.
Jenny says
Just to let you know I’ve made this many times using Bobs Red mill brand blanched almond flour and it has come out perfect. Love this coffee cake. Thanks.
Jenny
Sharon says
Made this today and had XL eggs, and added some vanilla, so added a tablespoon of coconut flour to soak up the extra liquid, and also used maple syrup since I don’t tolerate honey. Sprinkled some fresh blueberries on top before the struesel and this came out fabulous! Thanks for a simple recipe Elena.
Nan says
I made this today using the blanched almond flour from Nuts.com. The flour was cool as I keep it in the refrigerator. The eggs were cool, too. The cake was not done even at 35 minutes. I baked it 7 minutes longer, and it was just barely done – but burned on the bottom. I baked it in a springform pan lined with parchment paper. I substituted avocado oil for the coconut oil, and organic evaporated cane juice for the coconut sugar. The topping sank to the bottom. The cake had a light texture and tasted great, except for the burnt part. Do you have any suggestions for me, Elana? I would like to make this again, but would like for it to turn out the way it should.
Elana says
Hi Nan, thanks for your comment. I’m really glad to hear that your experiment turned out as well as it did. I think you’re going to have great results using the recommended ingredients for this recipe. When you make it again please stop back by to say hello :-)
Marina Carrillo says
Hi Elana,
I am following WW and have always loved Paleo recipes. I was wondering why you don’t post the calories, fat, sugar per recipe. This would help me in being accountable in my regimen.
Elana says
Hi Marina, thanks for your question. With more than 800 recipes on this site, 25,000 visitors here every day I just don’t have the time to provide additional information. Often though, readers jump in to leave this info in the comments section which is great!