A yummy simple Cinnamon Cake recipe, you can whip up in no time at all, for when guests ring and say they will be around in an hour!
Nanna’s Simple Cinnamon Cake
Recipe by Stay at Home Mum
Moist cake with swirls of cinnamon sugar, baked to golden perfection. Warm, nostalgic, and best served with tea.
Course: DessertCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy
Servings
+
–
4
servingsPrep time
30
minutesCooking time
40
minutesCalories
300
kcalTotal time
1
hour10
minutes
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Ingredients
1.25 cups Caster Sugar
1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
185 gram Butter
2 tsp Vanilla extract
3 number Egg
1.5 cups Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
0.5 cup Sour cream
Cinnamon Sugar
1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1 tbsp Sugar
Directions
- Preheat oven to 160 degrees C.
- Mix butter, caster sugar and vanilla with an electric mixer until mixture is pale and creamy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, and combine well.
- Add flour, baking powder, cinnamon and sour cream and beat until just combined.
- Spoon the mixture into a lightly greased 22 cm round tin, lined with baking paper.
- Bake for approximately 1 hour or until cooked when tested with a skewer.
- Allow to cool in tin for 5 mins before turning out onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
- To make the cinnamon sugar, mix the white sugar and extra cinnamon in a bowl.
- Brush the top of the cooled cake with melted butter and sprinkle the cinnamon sugar on top before serving.
- Recipes Hints and Tips:
- Cinnamon Cake suitable to freeze for up to three months.
- Freeze the cake before you put the cinnamon sugar on.
Clare Whitfield
Chief Editor
Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

Very tasty, thankyou!