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This vegan gluten free pumpkin coffee cake recipe yields a thick layer of moist, healthy pumpkin cake with a cinnamon sweet, buttery-rich topping. The best gluten free pumpkin dessert—tastes like vegan spice cake & made with healthy ingredients.
What’s your favorite thing about coffee cake? Mine: it’s decadent, rich texture and amazing crumb topping. What’s your favorite thing about pumpkin cake? Mine: the pumpkin spice, the seasonal everything and the fact that sweet pumpkin treats always hit the spot.
So what would you say if I said I put these two things together? 🙂
YUM-O!!! I mean, I’m just hoping…
Today’s vegan gluten free pumpkin coffee cake is the best thing since sliced bread—if sliced bread tasted like dessert and if it could make you more pleased than a peach during fall (and every other season).
Okay, it’s obviously no competition! 😉 So without further ado, we’re gonna hop into how to make pumpkin coffee cake, how to serve pumpkin coffee cake and more!
Pumpkin Coffee Cake Ingredients
What kind of magical ingredients could make pumpkin coffee cake healthy, vegan, and gluten free? Let’s see, shall we? Psst… readers have reported that this coffee cake recipe is very adaptable! 😉
How to Make Gluten Free Pumpkin Coffee Cake
Preheat the oven to 350°F and line an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper.
Make the streusel. Add all streusel ingredients to a small bowl and stir until well incorporated. If you’d like to try a butter-based streusel, try this Streusel Topping.
Make the pumpkin cake. Add all wet ingredients into a large bowl and whisk together until well incorporated: pumpkin, coconut oil, coconut sugar, maple syrup, flax egg and vanilla.
Add the dry ingredients to the large bowl: oat flour, almond meal, baking soda, baking powder, spices and salt. Whisk until fully incorporated and no flour patches remain.
Pour pumpkin cake batter evenly into the prepared pan. Using a rubber spatula, smooth coffee cake batter into an even layer.
Now, grab the streusel you made earlier, then sprinkle streusel over batter.
Bake coffee cake for about 35 minutes.
Cool, slice and enjoy the best vegan gluten free pumpkin coffee cake ever!
For a different twist on coffee cake, try my Vegan Gluten Free Banana Bread Coffee Cake Recipe. Or, for another pumpkin-flavored dessert you can eat for breakfast, check out my irresistible Pumpkin Scones With Maple Glaze.
A thick layer of vegan pumpkin spice cake topped with crunchy, buttery, cinnamon-sweet pecan topping—all made with healthy, vegan gluten free ingredients. Perfectly spiced, perfectly nice (tasting). 😉
How to Serve Pumpkin Coffee Cake
With ice cream. Serve pumpkin coffee cake with your favorite vegan ice cream. I recommend vanilla ice cream. 😉
Warm and fresh, as is. No frills, no bevs, no ice cream. Serve pumpkin coffee cake as is and enjoy.
With a cup of hot coffee. Perhaps nothing goes better with coffee cake than… you guessed it, coffee! Or tea. 😉
Or altogether, now. Serve fresh out of the oven (after cooling for beautiful slicing of course), with a side of ice cream and a fresh cup of coffee for the best treat ever.
Recommended Tools for the Best Vegan Gluten Free Pumpkin Coffee Cake
Here are a few of my favorite pieces of kitchen equipment and ingredients to use when making this vegan pumpkin coffee cake.
- 4 Event Timer – Seriously one of my favorite kitchen tools EVER. This super cool timer helps you keep track of 4 different events at once! I love using it to keep track of bake time, cool time in pan, cool time on rack, and bake time for my second recipe.
- 8-inch Square Baking Pan – A truly wonderful pan that I’ve used hundreds of times, if not thousands.
- Unbleached Parchment Paper – I love how this parchment paper makes clean up a breeze. And it keeps the pumpkin coffee cake from sticking to the pan!
- Vegan Gluten Free Pantry Staples: Unblanched Almond Meal | Gluten Free Oat Flour | Organic Pumpkin Puree | Coconut Sugar | Coconut Oil | Pure Maple Syrup | Ground Flaxseed
Vegan Coffee Cake + Healthy Pumpkin Cake = Best GF Breakfast ever! I mean, whenever we can sneak dessert in for breakfast is a good day, ya know? Wishing you all the good days you and your loved ones most definitely deserve… and…
Sending you all my love and maybe even a dove, xo Demeter ❤️
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More Gluten Free Pumpkin Desserts!
- One Bowl Gluten Free Vegan Pumpkin Bread
- Gluten Free Pumpkin Oatmeal Bars
- Pumpkin Pie Smoothie
- Gluten Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Gluten Free Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread Recipe
- Healthy Pumpkin Spice Granola Bars
- And Cinnamon Streusel Muffins, just for fun. 😉
Vegan Gluten Free Pumpkin Coffee Cake Recipe (Healthy)
Ingredients
Streusel
- 3 ½ tablespoons gluten free oat flour
- 3 ½ tablespoons coconut oil, melted
- ¼ cup coconut sugar
- ½ cup pecans, chopped
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Wet Ingredients
- 1 cup 100% pure pumpkin puree
- ¼ cup melted coconut oil
- ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons coconut sugar
- ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 1 flax egg, 1 tablespoon golden ground flaxseed + 3 tablespoons water, whisk together, set for 15 mins
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups gluten free oat flour – if using homemade oat flour, make sure it’s very finely ground, not coarse*
- ½ cup almond meal
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon**
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves**
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg**
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper or greased foil. Set aside.
- Make the streusel: Add Streusel ingredients to a small bowl. Using a fork, stir and fold until well incorporated. Set aside.
- Make the pumpkin cake: Add all the Wet Ingredients to a large bowl: pumpkin, coconut oil, coconut sugar, maple syrup, flax egg and vanilla. Whisk until well incorporated.
- Add the dry ingredients: oat flour, almond meal, baking soda, baking powder, spices and salt. Whisk together until just incorporated, making sure no flour patches remain. Batter will be very thick—do not add any additional liquids.
- Pour batter evenly into prepared pan. Using a rubber spatula, spread into an even layer. Sprinkle streusel over pumpkin batter.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes. Mine took 35 minutes. Test for doneness by sticking a toothpick into the center of the cake. The toothpick will come out clean when the cake is done.
- Allow to cool in pan placed on a cooling rack for about 30 minutes. Pinch parchment paper and lift cake out of pan and transfer directly to cooling rack to cool completely, about 1-3 hours. Slice and enjoy! Storing instructions below.
Adapted from my Gluten Free Vegan Pumpkin Bread.
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Notes
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Perfect flavors for fall! And so helpful for those with dietary restrictions!
You know it! Fall flavors like these are some of my fave. ☺️
SO excited to try this!!! Love those wholesome ingredients and that texture! 🙂
Oh I think you’re seriously gonna love it Brittany! ..
This sounds so good. We love pumpkin bread so this is sure to be a hit. Looking forward to making it tomorrow after I get some pumpkin .
Thanks Karen! 🙂 I seriously can’t wait to hear what you think. Hugs!
What can I use as a substitute for almond meal? We have allergies and cannot use it. I can’t wait to try this; it sounds wonderful!
Hi Lynn! Try cashew meal or sunflower seed meal. Those would be the closest subs. If you can’t have those, try subbing with more oat flour, but reducing the amount by a few tablespoons. Reason being, oat flour is drier and more absorbent than almond meal. Enjoy!
Can you substitute oat flour for anything else?I am paleo and cant have a lot of your recipes and they look so delicious!!!!! Pleasee help!!!
Hi Zhana! Maybe try cassava flour? I’m not sure how it would turn out, but it’s supposed to be a good sub for gf flours. let me know if you try it! 🙂
I used Gluten-Free Girl’s all-purpose gf flour–a mix of millet flour, sweet rice flour, and potato starch–and it turned out great. I used her grain-free gf flour for the topping–it has buckwheat, almond flour, arrowroot, flaxseed meal, and potato starch. I’ve found it’s pretty easy to make substitutions, especially if I use a few different types of gf flour and stay away from moisture-sucking coconut flour unless a recipe calls for it.
Awesome!!! It’s great to know what particular brands of GF all purpose flour work. Thanks for letting me know! 🙂
Oh my, I need this coffee cake in my life! There’s never enough cinnamon and other “fall” spices in my life 😉
Haha yes you do Marie! Oh yes, no such thing as too much when it comes to fall spices! ☺️
This seams to be the perfect fall treat to surprise m vegan daughter. It has wonderful “Christmas” spices, is clean and I love the fact that you mostly use the low GI coconut sugar for sweetener.
You’re so sweet! I hope both you and your daughter enjoy it! ☺️
That color is beautiful! I’ve not yet experimented with oat flour… just might have to give this one a try, it looks so delicious!
Aw thanks Catherine! Baking with oat flour is so much fun. Hope you get a chance to try it!
this healthy version sounds delightful and I am sure my entire family will sure benefit from this delicious healthier version of this cake!
Oh it’s absolutely delightful Claudia! 🙂 Hope you and the fam enjoy it!
What a great treat! And I love that it’s vegan, GF, and sugar free! Good work!
Thanks Suzy!! I hope you enjoy. 🙂 Hugs!