Recipe for homemade cinnamon crunch cereal that is healthy and grain-free for minimal carbs and easier digestion for breakfast.
One of the most popular videos and recipes I’ve posted on this blog is How to Make Cold Breakfast Cereal.
A frequent question I’ve gotten from that post is how to make a grain free homemade breakfast cereal for those who eat Primal or Paleo or are currently on the GAPS or SCD diet.
Why would you ever want to make your own breakfast cereal when there are oodles of brands at the store, you might ask?
The reason is because ALL boxed cereal from the store, even if organic, should be avoided due to the heavy processing required to make it.
Called extrusion, this process liquefies the cereal grains into a slurry using very high temperatures and pressures to manufacture the desired shapes, puffs, and flakes.
This violent processing denatures the proteins in the cereal grains leaving them toxic and allergenic.
Making your own healthy, homemade breakfast cereal is clearly the way to go given the highly processed boxed versions at the store.
The recipe below is a healthy version of the Cinnamon Crunch cereal from the supermarket. It was shared by Heather, a reader friend who kindly shared her creativity with all of us.
Note that homemade coconut flour and soaked almond flour made at home are best, but in a pinch store bought is fine. Kefir may be substituted for yogurt if desired.
Want a nut butter version? Try this peanut butter grain-free breakfast cereal too!
Homemade Breakfast Cereal Recipe (grain free)
Recipe for homemade cinnamon crunch cereal that is grain-free for minimal carbs and easier digestion for the morning meal.
Ingredients
- 4 cups almond flour
- 1 cup coconut flour
- 3 cups plain whole yogurt
- 3/4 cup expeller pressed coconut oil
- 1 cup honey
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 tsp baking soda leave out if on SCD Diet
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1.5 Tbl cinnamon preferably freshly ground
Instructions
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Soak almond flour and coconut flour in yogurt or kefir in a covered glass bowl for 24 hours.
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Mix in remaining ingredients into the batter. Pour batter into (2) 9 x13 pans coated with coconut oil. Bake for 30 minutes at 350F or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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Do not overbake.
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Let cool and then crumble homemade breakfast cereal onto baking sheets and dehydrate at 200 F for about 24 hours. Take out dried cereal off the top every few hours so as not to overdry and make the cereal too hard.
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Store homemade breakfast cereal in an airtight container in the fridge.
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Thank you for posting this! I’ve been looking for a homemade cereal recipe with easy to find ingredients. Can’t wait to try it!
THANK YOU!!!!!
Just what I’ve been hoping for! I’ll be trying one of these very soon, thanks
Ummm….are you a mind reader? Just this morning I was thinking I have to search out some cereal recipes! Thank you!
Can you do these w/o honey? My husband and I are on a diet that does not allow any sweeteners except for stevia. They do look yummy!
Hi Marcy, can you eat fruit? If so, date sugar should work .. it is simply dehydrated dates that are ground up.
dried fruit is off limits too-and I thought dates were dried. We are being treated for Lyme disease. We can have fresh fruit though. It has been amazing to find we can live w/o any refined sugars-we’ve been at it since the first of the year and have about two and a half months left to go.
Hi Marcy, you could try a few drops of stevia. The almonds are nice and sweet on their own and combined with the cinnamon, you might find it really yummy. You could also mash up some fresh bananas and bake with the peanut butter cereal. Peanut butter and banana flavor go beautifully together.
Sounds yummy… Goes to your blog to read! 😀
Hi Sarah I just made the first phase of the grain free cereal. I used kefir. I didn’t think that the mixture fermented on the counter top and also thought it was very stiff. I also found that my baked mixture is very wet, not really dry like the one you crumble in your video. Is this because of the nature of the almond/coconut flour? Thanks for the advice! Kathryn
Kefir has much more liquid than the yogurt, so this would change the consistency of the batter. It will likely take longer to dry it out but it should turn out ok once you dehydrate.
Sarah, thank you so much for posting these! I can’t wait to try them. My family has been eating Primally since November 2010, and while we love our eggs and bacon, we sometimes miss our morning (or evening) bowl of cereal. This will be a great surprise for the kiddos 🙂 They both sound delicious!
Thanks for sharing these! They sound delicious! We are getting a little tired of oatmeal around here since we do mostly gluten free and certainly not the toxic (and expensive) boxed cereals. Have you found a good bulk source for nuts? We eat a lot of nuts (soaked and dried) and I would love to incorporate more nut flours into our diet but the nuts are so pricey!
Nickole @ http://www.savvyteasandherbs.com
I buy them in huge bulk orders for a number of families straight from an almond farmer in season so they are a better price that way.
I’m pretty sure Mark McAfee from Organic Pastures Dairy in CA sells raw (unpasteurized) almonds, too, but I have no idea what price or how much shipping would cost. But it might be worth it to find out. We get raw almonds and pecans from my SIL who lives in OK. [:->
I’m not positive of the link to organic pastures web site, but you could just do a general web search and find them, I’m sure.
I live in Oklahoma too. Where does your SIL get the raw nuts?
How would I go about making this unsoaked, could I use raw or coconut milk in place of the yogurt/kefir? I soak my almonds before making into flour. Also, could I use wheat flour in the same ratios as the almond/coconut flour? Thank you!
Hi Bobbie, check out the link to the original cereal recipe for the wheat flour version (in the first sentence of the post)
You could use clabbered raw milk as a sub for the yogurt, kefir in you like. The original recipe uses raw milk.
Oh thank you for posting this! I’ve been eating lower carb lately and I miss cereal. Having this version will definitely make me happier, I miss cereal! I have made other version several times for my kids and it is terrific.