Homemade Cinnamon Coffee Cake is one of my favorite comfort foods. Growing up my mother used to buy a tasty frozen coffee cake at the grocery store as a special treat.
My healthy homemade coffee cake is made with only six ingredients –almond flour, salt, baking soda, coconut oil, honey, and eggs. This easy coffee cake recipe can be thrown together in no time flat. The topping has three additional ingredients –coconut sugar, cinnamon, and sliced almonds.
Like the one Mom used to buy, this cake is moist and has a sweet cinnamon topping. It’s perfect with a cup of my Dandelion Coffee on a lazy weekend morning.
Homemade Cinnamon Coffee Cake is a fabulous low-carb, paleo brunch dish for Easter Sunday!
This low-carb Cinnamon Coffee Cake is Kosher for Passover. Like all of my recipes, it does not contain any chametz.
This Cinnamon Coffee Cake recipe is adapted from one on page 24 of my first book, The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook, published in 2009. Both coffee cake recipes are dairy-free. All of the recipes in that cookbook are 100% dairy-free!
Will you eat dairy? Do you consider dairy to be part of the paleo diet? Leave a comment and let me know!
This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first shared this recipe in March 2015.
Comments
343 responses to “Cinnamon Coffee Cake”
Can you use coconut flour instead of almond flour? My daughter has a tree nut allergy. I would like to make this for Easter. It looks amazing
Cyndi, thanks for your comment! For more on that go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/paleo-baking/
Enjoy!
Elana
Just made this this morning seeing if it might be good for Easter – and the tasting got a little out of control. So delicious! I definitely need to make another for Easter!
Thank you Elana – your recipes never let me down!! Love your work!
Lisa
Lisa, what an awesome comment! So glad you love this cake as much as we do :-)
This was very good. But I thought that the cinnamon walnut mix got lost on the bottom. I made it in a bundt pan. Maybe some could have been added to the bottom of the pan to add to the top of the coffee cake. If it were in a cake pan, I could have flipped it over on the serving plate. Also, I love what vanilla extract adds to baked goods, and I added more than you called for. It was perfect. Otherwise, this was lovely and will become my go -to coffee cake recipe. Thank you for such an easy and gluten free recipe!
Alene, thanks for your comment! If you follow the recipe and use the method (i.e., baking pan I used) this will be perfect :-)
Hello – love this recipe! I’ve made it twice and it’s become a favourite.
I would like to make it this weekend for Easter and am wondering if I use a deeper cake pan if I can make it a two layer cake? Any suggestions on baking time if I attempt that?
Lucia, I’m so happy to hear you love this recipe! I haven’t tried making this in a deeper pan so not sure if that would work. If you do experiment I hope you’ll report back :-)
Hi
Which other sweetener options would you suggest using? And how much of it?
I am following a Keto diet.
This looks delicious!
Leeza, I haven’t tried that so not sure. Here’s a link to my Keto Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/keto-diet/
Enjoy!
Elana
I can attest that this recipe is insanely good! Whenever we have a special occasion, I make this cinnamon cake the night before so we have it to look forward to in the morning. The most recent being my hubby’s 30 birthday! He said it was the only gift he needed. Lol. It takes a few minutes to whip together and really impresses with morning coffee. I don’t usually have coconut oil on hand, so substitute it for butter.
Christine, thanks so very much for letting me know this cake is insanely good! Happy birthday to your husband and I’m so glad to be a part of your celebrations :-)
Love your recipes. I am going to bake the Cinnamon Cake for Easter using the Golden Monk fruit for Easter. I have rheumatoid arthritis and use nut milks in place of dairy which have alleviated the pain tremulously. Thank you.
Mary, you’re very welcome! Happy Easter in advance :-)
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