Easiest Lemon Dessert Sauce is sweet, tart, and tangy. It makes a great topping for cake, bread pudding, ice cream, and pancakes, and this recipe is so simple to make!

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Easiest Lemon Dessert Sauce

Lemon desserts are my favorite, even over chocolate. I know, who does that?

Lemon makes me think of spring, and I wanted something to cheer me up with the cold weather we’ve been having. (I know, I know. Cold in the South is nothing compared to cold in the North. But I hate even 30-degree weather!)

This is truly an easy recipe to make. It took me less than ten minutes from the beginning until I had the finished luscious lemon sauce ready to eat. This sauce is not a curd. Therefore, it doesn’t contain eggs. Additionally, it doesn’t have butter in it. However, it is easy, quick to make, and luscious.

Uses for Sauce

Easiest Lemon Dessert Sauce is great served warm over pound cakes and angel food cakes. Perk up vanilla ice cream with it. It’s also great over homemade pancakes with fresh strawberries.

Specifically, I made this sauce for my Dunkin Donuts Bread Pudding recipe for a birthday brunch. Served with bread pudding and fresh strawberries, it was gone in minutes.

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Easiest Lemon Dessert Sauce

Easiest Lemon Dessert Sauce brightens any dish. Serve it warm over cakes, bread pudding, pancakes, and ice cream.

Author: Paula

4.82 from 76 votes

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Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 3

Total Time: 8

Servings: 1 cup

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Ingredients

1 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon orange juice

Instructions

Bring lemon rind, lemon juice, sugar, and cornstarch to a boil in a saucepan over medium heat.
Stir constantly.
Reduce heat to simmer and cook 2 to 3 minutes or until sauce is thick.
Remove from heat and stir in 1 teaspoon orange juice.
Serve warm.
Refrigerate up to 1 week.

Notes

I specifically made this sauce for my Dunkin Donuts Bread Pudding recipe for a birthday brunch. I served that bread pudding warm with fresh strawberries and warm Easiest Lemon Sauce. It was gone in minutes.

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55 Comments

I loved this sauce! So tired of recipes that sickeningly sweet! This was sweet and tart and scrumptious on our old fashioned cheesecake! Everyone raved!

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I made a blueberry crumble pie which tasted strangely “flat,” not enough lemon flavor. So I made this sauce with double the lemon zest and substituted Dole “Orange, Strawberry, Banana” juice for the orange juice. Drizzled over the pie, this resulted in the best version of this pie yet. Thanks!