Strawberry Sauce

With only three ingredients this homemade strawberry sauce recipe is easy to make with your fresh strawberries. It’s thick and delicious. Perfect for topping your Angel Food Cake, Cheesecake, Pancakes, Waffles, Ice Cream and more!

Strawberry sauce is a really easy way to dress up your favorite desserts and breakfast dishes! It’s sweet and bursting with fresh strawberries and looks so pretty spooned over ice cream, cake, or homemade pancakes and waffles!

My recipe is so simple and only takes about 15 minutes from start to finish! Plus, the sauce will keep up to two weeks in the refrigerator. If you’ve tried my homemade blueberry sauce you already know how delicious fruit sauce is.

Why this recipe works:

• You can use fresh or frozen strawberries.
• Only takes 15 minutes to make.
• Keeps in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

Frozen vs Fresh Strawberries

This sauce is absolutely delicious when you use fresh strawberries to make it and that’s what I recommend that you use!

If you can’t find good fresh strawberries (especially during the winter), that doesn’t mean you can’t make it. You can use frozen strawberries instead – it will still be delicious. Make sure that the frozen strawberries are not sweetened, if they are, just add less sugar.

In addition to the strawberries you just need some water, sugar, cornstarch to make the sauce. Red food coloring is optional – more on that in a minute!

Tips to Prepare

The mashed strawberries will create the base of the sauce and the chopped ones are added towards the end so you get that burst of fresh strawberry flavor.

I like to divide the strawberries into two parts and mash half of them with a potato masher and then chop the other half.

For frozen strawberries: if you use frozen ones, you will need to thaw them first and then lightly mash all of them. You don’t have to divide them.

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How to Thicken Strawberry Sauce

The cornstarch is what thickens the sauce. You place the mashed strawberries in a saucepan with the cornstarch and sugar and then add the water

Bring the mixture to a boil and stir constantly. As you stir, the cornstarch will thicken the sauce. It doesn’t take long – only about three minutes!

It is possible the thicken the sauce without cornstarch, but you would have to cook the strawberries a lot longer. The cornstarch makes it really quick and easy.

Once the sauce has thickened, stir in the chopped strawberries and then transfer all of it to a bowl and let it cool for 10 to 15 minutes. At this point, it’s ready to serve or you can store it for later!

How to Use It!

Besides just eating straight from the container with a spoon (guilty as charged!) there are so many ways to use this strawberry sauce:

• Top your homemade Buttermilk Pancakes with a generous spoonful. Add some Whipped Cream to make it extra special!
• Use it as a dipping sauce for some French Toast Sticks! Or spoon it over regular French Toast for an amazing breakfast.
• Stir it into a bowl of oatmeal or use it as a topping for yogurt.
• Make a batch of Cake Batter Ice Cream and add some sauce on top!
• Serve it with Chocolate Angel Food Cake for a dessert no one will forget!
• Add it as a layer in my Banana Split Trifle – this is a great dessert for a crowd!

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