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