Easiest Lemon Dessert Sauce
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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 most favorite, even over chocolate. I know, who does that?
Lemon makes me think of spring and with the cold weather we’ve been having, I wanted something to cheer me up. (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
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. As well, it’s 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
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Save To Your Recipe BoxIngredients
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup 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
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This is so delicious and very easy to make. My whole family loved it and wants more! I’m going to make a chocolate cake with coconut and mango buttercream with the lemon sauce as a filling. Thank you for the amazing recipe!
I’m so happy you liked it. Thanks for your kind words!
I can’t wait to try this- just wondering if I can keep this at room temperature or refrigerate this for a couple of hours. If I refrigerate it and it gets thick, is there some way that I can thin it a little bit? Thank you!
Refrigerate and you can heat in the microwave
My mother always served lemon sauce with her warm gingerbread cake. Yumm
My use to make this when I was a kid and I am 59 now. She never put lemon zest or OJ in it and it turned out perfect. So if you do not have those 2 ingredients, no biggie it stills turns out so good. And a big NO to adding flour instead of startch. It is a sweet sauce not a gravy. The texture will be aweful.
Can you substitute corn starch for something else, like flour?
flour will thicken it but will leave it ‘milky’ looking not clear. Corn starch leaves it clear
Can the lemon one be served cold? Does it stay as good?
Thanksss
It can but it’s thick when it’s cold
My mother used to serve this over warm gingerbread. It was delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
I can’t wait to try this sauce! How do you think this would taste over panna cotta? Also, can I add some honey to this recipe if it comes out tart?
I think it would be delicious over panna cotta. Honey would be good in it.
1st time ever making a pound cake, so I was a little nervous about trying to make a new recipe work for a last minute change in our Christmas gathering dessert plans. Even worse, I didn’t want to make another run to the crowded grocery store. Your Blue Ribbon pound cake recipe turned out fabulously! As noted in the recipe, I had batter left over from my smaller bundt cake pan, so I decided to add another element to the empty Polish pottery dish I had planned to give as a gift. Naturally I needed a topping for my now gifting pound cake & pan. The lemon sauce was the perfect addition, made even better by the relative ease of preparation for my last minute gift alteration. The entire addition was absolutely delicious and created an even more delightful and heartfelt gift. Subsequently, I went ahead and saved several more of your topping recipes to try later… hopefully NOT under duress next time, either way I know it will be good. Thank you!!!
Yay!!! I love this! Thanks for letting me know and I’m so happy you enjoyed it!
I have been looking for this recipe for more than twenty years. Thank you so much for posting it. It used to be the my most requested item for potlucks and dinner parties. I lost the recipe and have been looking for it ever since.
I’m so happy you found it on my site!! Look around for more recipes you might enjoy
the lemon one is great! of course if you substitute some of the lemon juice with vodka…. 🙂
yes! 🙂
What measurement is a “cup”?
8 ounces liquid
What is a “cup” in terms of measurement?
I am going to try ALL of the Sauces ; They all look really good! We don’t have any Ducan Donuts here so any suggestions? .
Any plain glazed donut will work in this recipe. I often get the day-old Krispie Kreme from my walmart when they discount them.
Delicious!!! I love anything lemon!
Yum! Lemon is so good!
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I think I should have such sauce in the fridge all the time 🙂
There is no rind. Recipe says zest. Also put orange juice in pan. Recipe says jut in
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