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Dessert Sauce Recipes

Having a few dessert sauce recipes in your repertoire will elevate a simple scoop of ice cream, a slice of cake, or even a plate of pancakes.

From a thick slice of Carrot Cake that's been smothered in Caramel Rum Sauce or Irish Apple Cake drenched in custard sauce, to a pile of Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with Blueberry Sauce or a simple dish of vanilla ice cream with hot fudge, these are the essential dessert sauce recipes you need to make everything just a little bit sweeter.

  • Spooning berry sauce over the top of a chocolate ricotta cake.
    Easy Berry Sauce with Fresh or Frozen Berries
  • Drizzling whisky sauce over the top of a honey cake.
    Whisky Sauce
  • Spooning cherry sauce over a bowl of vanilla ice cream.
    Cherry Sauce Made with Sweet Cherries
  • Spooning roasted fruit in brown butter maple sauce over vanilla ice cream.
    Roasted Fruit Sauce with Maple Syrup and Brown Butter
  • An almond cake topped with cranberry sauce on a plate ready to eat.
    Almond Cake with Cranberry Sauce
  • Drizzling salted caramel sauce from a spoon into a jar.
    Salted Caramel Sauce ~ All Cream Recipe
  • Salted Caramel Rum Sauce Dripping Down the Side of a cake.
    Caramel Rum Sauce
  • A jar of butterscotch sauce with some sauce dripping over the side.
    Best Butterscotch Sauce {3 Secret Ingredients}
  • Blueberry Sauce | ofbatteranddough.com
    Blueberry Sauce
  • Homemade hot fudge sauce recipe | ofbatteranddough.com
    Hot Fudge Recipe

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