Easy homemade 3-ingredient strawberry sauce takes just 10 minutes to make and is a delicious topping for cheesecake, ice cream, and more!
Homemade strawberry sauce tastes like summer! It takes just 3 simple ingredients to make this easy but delicious strawberry topping.
Adding this sauce to breakfast or dessert is a great way to take everything from buttermilk pancakes to angel food cake up a notch.
“This was easy and delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe!” – Jenika
Ingredient notes and substitutions
- Strawberries: This sauce is best made with fresh strawberries during strawberry season.
- Sugar: You can vary the amount of sugar depending on how sweet your strawberries are and on how sweet you like sauce.
- Lemon juice: The lemon juice helps to brighten and balance out the sauce.
How to make strawberry topping from scratch
Here you’ll find step-by-step photos and instructions showing how to make this recipe. The full recipe, including ingredients, is given below.
Step 1: Wash the strawberries and remove the stem. Set aside 1/4 cup strawberries.
Step 2: Cut the remaining strawberries into quarters.
Step 3: Combine cut strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice in a medium saucepan.
Step 4: Cook the strawberry mixture over medium-low heat, stirring regularly.
Step 5: Mash the strawberries as you cook the sauce. I use a potato masher, but you could use a wooden spoon or something similar. Continue to cook until thickened, about 10 minutes. The sauce will continue to thicken as it sits. Remove from heat.
Step 6: Chop the remaining 1/4 cup strawberries and stir into sauce.
Variations
There are lots of ways to change up the flavor of this easy strawberry sauce! Some ideas to get you started are to add
- vanilla extract
- orange juice instead of lemon juice
- almond extract
- orange zest or lemon zest to add some brightness to the sauce
What to serve with strawberry sauce
Strawberry sauce makes a great topping for all sorts of things! You can serve this it over pancakes, waffles, crepes, French toast, or oatmeal for breakfast.
It also goes well with cheesecake (or cheesecake dip), vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream, sponge cake, or pound cake.
Storage
This sauce needs to cool to room temperature before being stored. It should be stored, covered, in an airtight container, like a jar, in the refrigerator.
It will keep for up to 4 days when properly stored in the fridge.
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3 Ingredient Strawberry Sauce (Strawberry Topping)
Equipment
- Saucepan
Ingredients
- 1 pint fresh strawberries
- ¼-⅓ cup granulated sugar depending on desired sweetness
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Wash the strawberries and remove the stem.1 pint fresh strawberries
- Set aside 1/4 cup strawberries.
- Cut the remaining strawberries into quarters.
- Combine cut strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice in a saucepan.¼-⅓ cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- Cook over medium-low heat, stirring regularly.
- Mash the strawberries as you cook the sauce, and continue to cook until thickened, about 10 minutes. The sauce will continue to thicken as it sits.
- Remove from heat.
- Chop the remaining 1/4 cup strawberries and stir into sauce.
- Store covered in the fridge.
Notes
- Strawberries: This sauce is best made with fresh strawberries during strawberry season.
- Sugar: You can vary the amount of sugar depending on how sweet your strawberries are and on how sweet you like sauce.
- Lemon juice: The lemon juice helps to brighten and balance out the sauce.
- Nutrition values are estimates.
Nutrition
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Comments & Reviews
Jenika says
This was easy and delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Kate says
Thanks!