Annie's Custard & Cafe

08/17/2026

Hours this week.

Mon - Fri : 4pm - 8:37pm
Sat : Noon - 8:37pm

08/10/2026

Update to our hours this week.

Mon - Fri : 4pm - 8:37pm
Sat : Noon - 8:37pm

07/15/2026

I know you can’t really see the gooey center, feel the heat of the cookie against the cold custard, or smell the buttery goodness of this treat—so you’re just gonna have to believe us!

These are perfection.

Hot cookie dough baked just *so*.
Cold Cookie Dough custard melting into it.
Your choice of hot fudge or caramel sauce drizzled on top.
Finished with whipped cream.

Available only after 8 pm at Annie’s Custard and Cafe in Nauvoo, IL.

07/14/2026

We came across a stash of cups from Helen’s era that had been preserved in the back of storage, and couldn’t help but bring them out for our delicious strawberry lemonade!

This menu item used to be completely idle on our menu until we put it on display. Once it took a front row seat in our cooler and people could see the fresh strawberries blended into house made lemonade made with 100% real lemon juice, we can hardly keep it in stock.

Refreshing. Fresh. Real ingredients. Just what you’re looking for on a hot summer day!

07/14/2026

We’ve been keeping a secret for far too long . . .

Introducing pizza pillows at Annie’s Custard and Cafe in Nauvoo, IL!

Pillowy soft homemade dough spilling out melted cheese and pepperoni, topped with cheesy herbs, and served piping hot from the oven with a house made marinara dipping sauce.

Come get yours today!

07/13/2026

Breakfast is back for a limited time! Stop by Wed-Saturday to try one of our delicious breakfast items! 8 - 10:30am

07/13/2026

07/10/2026

HOME 👏🏻 OF 👏🏻 THE 👏🏻 WAGON 👏🏻 WHEEL 👏🏻 CINNAMON 👏🏻 ROLL!

Settle in for a minute, will ya? I have a story for you starring second chances and gooey cinnamon rolls. I promise that it will be worth your time! ⏱️

In 2023 we re-opened Annie’s Custard and Cafe 🍦in Nauvoo, Illinois under new ownership and began offering our 7” Wagon Wheel Cinnamon rolls. They rolled out the door as quickly as we could bake them, making several batches every day. One memorable customer came from Phoenix declaring herself Cinnamon Roll Queen. 👸🏽Apparently every year at holiday time, she distributed hundreds of cinnamon rolls around the Valley of the Sun to business associates. Each client and vendor wished upon a star and sent letters up North 🎅🏻 hoping to be on her distribution list. The queen eyed our cinnamon rolls and took one back to her AirBnB. The very next day she marched right back in and snatched up 7 more for her family and declared, “You know what you’re doing with these! They are perfection!” Our humble Wagon Wheel 🛞was declared to be perfect by The Queen of Cinnamon Rolls 👸🏽 herself!

While we were busy being crowned 👑 and licking our fingers from the perfectly blended caramel and frosting, we got word that based on regulation we would have to remove our oven from the restaurant. We tried every workaround, but 2024 was a bleak time when The Wagon Wheel Cinnamon roll wasn’t offered at all. The new requirement? We had to find a self-ventilating oven.

Enter 2025—we installed a new oven and reintroduced the Wagon Wheel Cinnamon roll to our menu!

The good thing about this new oven was that it baked. ⏲️ The bad thing was that it didn’t bake evenly. 😩 The amount of air it took to create the self ventilation system 💨 was drying out the wagon wheel on the edges and leaving them raw in the middle. Our wagon wheels got on the struggle bus 🚌 and sealed the lug nuts like a midwest tire forced to endure countless seasons of extreme cold temperatures 🥶and suffocating humidity 🥵. Our best attempt was to put a metal heat conductor into the center of each roll. We just shrugged and said, “Every wheel needs an axel and a little physics!” Then we wiped off our greasy hands and tried to keep rolling. Unfortunately, the wheels kept going flat.

2026 season opened with endless determination and testing. 👩🏽‍🔬 The kitchen smelled amazing as we baked batch after batch to try and find cinnamon roll perfection again. You know the kind—pillowy softness with gooey goodness puddling at the bottom.

In the biggest comeback story of any bakery east of the Mississippi 🌅, the Wagon Wheel slowly returned to her formal glory 👑. Week after day and test after trial 👩🏽‍🍳, we learned a thing or two. Our precocious pastry likes a spa-like treatment in our steam oven and she stays softest when she is baked with her friends. A spa day with friends? I have never related more to a cinnamon roll in my life. 💅

So if you like comeback stories with caramel bottoms, gooey centers and frosted tops 🍮as much as we do, come give the new, improved (but really old, already perfect) Wagon Wheel Cinnamon Roll a try!

1320 Mulholland in Nauvoo, IL

07/10/2026

This focaccia bread looks just as pretty going into the oven as it does coming out!

Come try our Italian Grinder sandwich on house made focaccia!

Italian Grinder:
Pepperoni
Salami
Fresh mozzarella
Lettuce
Tomato
Pepperoncinis
Italian dressing

Come give it a try at Annie’s Custard and Cafe! Come for dinner, and stay for the treat!

07/09/2026

Smoked Beef Panini

See that crust? Slow smoked and rested means we have juicy and delicious meat for your sandwich.

House smoked beef, cheddar and onions toasted on panini bread.

Annie’s has custard . . . And so much more! Come check out our savory menu!

1320 Mulholland in Nauvoo, IL