Poppy Seed Banana Torte

We love poppy seed anything, and wanted to share an easy, but delicious torte that you can make for your family or for a gift to bring to a friends house. With the holiday season slowly approaching, it will be nice to have another healthy choice on the dinner table. This will surely make it…

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Cardamom Coconut Cream Custard

In the previous post we made these awesome macaroons, but ended up with 8 left over egg yolks, hmmmm…what to do? We decided to turn these great yolks into a custard that is very different in taste and ingredients from our previously posted Vanilla Custard. This is a powerhouse dessert or quick breakfast after your…

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Chilled Lemon Creme

It’s lemon harvest time and we’re trying to figure out different and interesting ways to use our lemons from our tree. It’s unusual for us to post two dessert dishes in a row, but I just could not resist. It’s starting to warm up here in AZ and Summer is slowly approaching, with that said,…

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Mom’s Poppy Seed Apple Cake

Merry Christmas – Feliz Navidad – Frohe Weihnachten – Happy Holidays! This has been a very busy December for us here at Nutty Kitchen, as I am sure yours has been too. This year just seemed to fly by. Today I wanted to share an old recipe from my mom’s famous kitchen with you. It’s…

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Vanilla Custard

Mark Sisson posted a wonderful Frozen Primal Vanilla Custard dessert last year, and we thought it looked so incredible that we decided to serve a non-frozen slightly modified version for our secondary Thanksgiving dessert. …and yes everyone loved it. It looks complicated, but it is very easy to make as are most custards. Enjoy for…

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Austrian Zwetschenkuchen (Austrian Plum Cake)

OMG 🙂 there really is no other way to describe this one…a favorite that I learned to make in cooking school many years ago. Of course I have modified it to fit our lifestyle, so it does not have the heap of white sugar and white flour among a few other no no’s.  We want…

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