More nutritious desserts that won’t kill you! I wish I had pictures, but alas, you will just have to take my word for it, these are good! Don’t you love the thought of making good wholesome desserts? I sure do…that is why I am always experimenting with recipes and tweaking them to make them healthy!
Berry Cobbler
Take advantage of all those wonderful antioxidants in berries with this simple dessert!
Topping:
1 1/2 cups oats
1 1/2 cups rapadura
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cubes butter (soft) – half and half w/coconut oil, if desired
Filling:
8-9 cups berries, frozen (I combine blackberries & raspberries)
2 Tbls lemon juice
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup maple syrup
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
If you use your berries frozen, defrost only partially. If fresh, add a lot more flour to the filling to give it weight, otherwise it will be very runny. Combine all filling ingredients and place in a 13×9 greased pan (use coconut oil!). Combine topping ingredients and layer over the berries. Bake at 375 for 30 minutes. Let sit for 1 hour so it solidifies.
Baked Custard
I recently tried this recipe from Nourishing Traditions and I was pleasantly surprised! A great way to use extra milk. I used all milk. Very similar to creme burlee.
1 cup whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup honey or Rapadura
5 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla extract
Warm milk and cream gently over a low flame. Meanwhile, beat Rapadura or honey with egg yolks. Slowly add milk and cream mixture to eggs, beating constantly. Blend in vanilla and pour into individual custard cups (or whatever you have!). Place in a pan of hot water and bake at 325 degrees for about 1 hour, or until a knife inserted into the custard comes out clean. Chill well.
Serves 5-6.
My real life friend, Kimi, shared a recipe for Hearty Quinoa Cookies. She just started a sweet new blog on cooking nutritiously with recipes! I can’t wait to try it!
I also used lots of extra Spelt since I had fresh blackberries. Click here to see the recipe. [...]
Has anyone ever tried apples instead of berries? Would it work?
Has anyone ever used apples instead of berries? Would it work??
Yes!
I’ve tried this (baked custard) a few times, w/ great results! Yet, last time I tried 100% coconut milk, and it was amazing! Turned out very rich, and full of coconut fat, we ate it w/ our breakfast.
Thanks for all your great recipes, hubby and I love all that we’ve tried!
TJ’s now have their blueberries back in season. Hooray!! I’m making this for dessert tonight. I can’t wait! Thank you for the yummy and nutritous recipe!
You said if you don’t have custard cups you can use whatever you have. Any suggestions?
You could prepare it in a bread pan and then serve it after it is cooked in small dishes.
I really want to try the Berry Cobbler but could someone please tell me how much a cube of butter is. Thanks
A cube of butter is usually 1/2 cup. This recipe is really adjustable though. I usually only add maybe 1/4 cup – 1/3 cup of butter. You can also use coconut oil or half and half of oil and butter. Enjoy!
Yum. We had the custard for dinner tonight. What a treat! Now, what do I do with five egg whites?
Throw them in a smoothie!
Or just add them to a batch of scrambled eggs. That is what we do over here!
I am salivating over the berry cobbler recipe. When I get back on my homefront (Saturday
) I’ll have to try this one. Love the custard one too.
I love that custard recipe! I tried it last weekend, and it was so good and easy to make!
The cobbler sounds great. We’re very into berry crumbles and have a freezer full of berries, so I’ll have to try it soon!
Hi Linds! Are you saying you used all milk and no cream? I have extra milk this week, and would like to make a little treat for Justin…
I just used the whole milk I had, which naturally had the cream that rose to the top, using that as well, and it worked great.
I love homemade custard! We used to make it alot when we had our own eggs and milk….it was cheap and healthy, full of protein and barely any sweetening!