Community Coffee adds Chocolate Lava Cake and Cinnamon Roll to core lineup

Community Coffee is betting that dessert-in-a-mug has moved from novelty to habit. The Baton Rouge company has added Chocolate Lava Cake and Cinnamon Roll to its core flavored-coffee lineup, making both blends permanent fixtures aimed at shoppers who want a bakery-style cup without paying café prices.

The new coffees are available now in ground coffee and K-Cup pods, and Community Coffee says both are made without added sugar or sweeteners and are allergen-free. The blends use coffees from South and Central America, giving the brand a familiar base while the flavoring does the heavy lifting. Chocolate Lava Cake is pitched as a medium roast with semisweet and dark chocolate notes, a rich ganache center and crispy cake edges. Cinnamon Roll leans into the warm pastry lane, with the taste of an oven-baked cinnamon roll coated in sweet icing.

Kristi Crump, Community Coffee’s chief commercial officer, said the flavors were developed after customer feedback showed people wanted the taste of their favorite bakery treats in every cup. Tom Corley, the company’s chief executive, tied the launch to the brand’s more than 100-year history, casting the move as part of Community Coffee’s effort to grow with consumers instead of simply recycling the same profile in a new package.

Distribution gives the launch a wide test. Community Coffee says both flavors are already at local and national retailers, on its own website and on Amazon. The company’s flavored-coffee business is also being refreshed with new packaging, while Irish Cream has returned for a limited time and Mardi Gras King Cake remains a featured bakery-style option on the brand’s site. That mix suggests Community Coffee is not treating dessert flavors as a side project, but as a real shelf strategy.

The timing fits a market that already has room for flavored coffee. The National Coffee Association said in 2021 that about 32% of past-week coffee drinkers had flavored coffee. Its Spring 2025 report said 66% of American adults drank coffee each day, and its Fall 2025 report said 82% of past-day coffee drinkers had coffee at home. That is exactly the setting where a chocolate cake cup or cinnamon-roll mug can earn repeat business if the flavor holds up in the brewer.

Community Coffee has leaned on flavor-led indulgence before, but this release raises the stakes by making Chocolate Lava Cake and Cinnamon Roll permanent. If grocery buyers keep treating dessert coffee as an everyday home ritual rather than a seasonal curiosity, these two blends could become the kind of shelf staples that tell the bigger story about where flavored coffee is headed next.