Cinnamon Coffee Cake

Coffee, tea, hot cocoa - this delightful confection is the perfect accompaniment!

Parchment paper
8"-square baking pan
Cake
6 tablespoons cane sugar, or light brown sugar, or Maple sugar
1/4 cup potato starch, or arrowroot starch
1/4 cup tapioca starch, or cornstarch
1/4 cup GF oat flour, or brown rice flour, or millet flour
1/4 cup brown rice flour, or quinoa flour, or almond flour
3 tablespoons Vance's DariFree powder, or powdered milk of choice
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 teaspoons egg replacer powder
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
4 tablespoons palm shortening
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons water
Topping
1/2 cup cane sugar, or light brown sugar, or Maple sugar
1/2 cup GF oat flour, or brown rice flour, or millet flour

1/4 cup potato starch, or arrowroot starch

1/4 cup tapioca starch, or cornstarch

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

4 tablespoons palm shortening

1. Place baking rack in third position; preheat oven to 350 degrees F; line 8"-square baking pan with parchment paper; set aside.
2. In bowl of food processor, combine cake ingredients: cane sugar, potato starch, tapioca starch, GF oat flour, brown rice flour, DariFree powder, baking powder, egg replacer powder, xanthan gum, and sea salt; pulse to combine.
3. Add palm shortening by the tablespoon; pulse to combine into loose, crumbly mixture; turn mix out into mixing bowl; stir in water; pour batter into prepared cake pan.
4. In bowl of food processor, combine topping ingredients: cane sugar, GF oat flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, xanthan gum, and ground cinnamon; pulse to combine.
5. Add palm shortening by the tablespoon; pulse to combine into loose dough; scoop topping out, flatten with palms of hands; lay in thin sheets on top of cake batter.
6. Place pan on third rack of preheated 350 degree F oven; bake 35 minutes; remove pan to wire rack; cool cake in pan 10 minutes; grasp edges of parchment and lift cake from pan to wire rack to cool completely prior to storage in airtight container up to 3 days.

Servings: 8" cake (6 adult servings)

Preheat: 350 degrees F

Prep time: 10 minutes

Baking time: 35 minutes

Variations

To use egg: omit egg replacer powder; reduce water to 3/4 cup; beat 1 large egg in at end of step 3.

To use milk of choice: omit Vance's DariFree powder; replace 3/4 cup water with 3/4 cup milk of choice.

Notes

If you do not have a food processor, use a pastry cutter to cut in palm shortening, or shortening of choice.

YUM!