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
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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
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
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
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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!
Can I use your recipe for lemon dessert sauce in the cobbler instead of lemon pie filling? pudding?
No, it’s completely different.
Perfect sauce
Not sure what went wrong. VERY VERY sour. Couldn’t eat it.
Did you add the sugar?