Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake – Low Carb & Gluten Free Recipe
This low carb Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake is lightly sweet and flavored generously with cinnamon. It is a perfect coffee cake. The buttery apple topping is also loaded with cinnamon as well as the light crunch of toasty walnuts for texture. You can easily adapt this cake to a muffin format making it the perfect portable low carb breakfast or snack!
Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake – Recipe
The way of preparation – easy
Prep time
- Prep time – 15 minutes
- Cooking time – 35 minutes
Yields – 9 servings
Ingredients:
Cake butter
- 2 eggs
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1/3 cup Swerve Erythritol sweetener
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1/2 cup almond or coconut milk
Apple layer:
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup granny smith apples, peeled and chopped into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1/4 cup Swerve Sweetener
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
- pinch of salt
Instructions on how to make Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake
Cake layer:
- Mix the butter and sweetener together until smooth and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
- Add the vanilla extract.
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine the almond flour, coconut flour, cinnamon, baking soda, xanthan gum and salt and mix well.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix.
- Pour in the almond milk and mix until just blended.
- Spread 1/2 half the batter into a greased 9—9 baking pan.
Apple streusel layer:
- Melt the butter in a medium skillet.
- Add the apples, cinnamon, and sweetener and cook for 2 minutes, stirring the entire time.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the almond flour, a pinch of salt and chopped walnuts. Stir well until a crumbly dough forms.
- Spoon the topping evenly over the cake batter and spread out.
- Spread the second half of butter over the apple layer.
- Bake the cake in a 375-degree oven for 35 minutes.
Nutritional Information (amount per serving)
Serving Size: 3×3 square
- Calories – 306
- Total Fat – 28 g
- Net Carbs – 5 g
- Protein – 8 g