This easy homemade raspberry sauce is the perfect topping for yogurt, ice cream, cakes and other treats. It’s ready in less than 15 minutes and adds an elegant and flavorful touch to any dessert!
This raspberry sauce is thick, glossy and packed with raspberry flavor. Serve it over a bowl of ice cream, layer it between pound cake cubes to make a trifle, or pour some over your morning oatmeal. It is one of my favorite berry desserts along with berry chantilly cake, blueberry shortcake and strawberry lemon cake.
One of my favorite tricks for easy entertaining is to purchase a high quality store bought item and dress it up with a little homemade touch. I’ve been known to buy a dessert like ice cream or chocolate cake, then add a drizzle of homemade raspberry sauce to make it extra special. Best of all, this easy sauce can be made in minutes and keeps for days in the fridge.
If you want to make your whole dessert from scratch, enjoy this sauce over some of my favorite desserts like Nutella cake, a heart cake and chocolate pudding cake.
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Raspberry Sauce Ingredients
When you make this raspberry sauce you will need frozen raspberries, sugar, seedless raspberry jam, cornstarch and water.
How Do You Make Raspberry Sauce?
To make this raspberry sauce recipe, first place your frozen raspberries in a pan or saucepan and cook them until they thaw. After the raspberries cook, add the sugar and jam to the raspberries. Bring everything to a simmer. Finally, a little cornstarch mixed with water goes in at the end as a thickening agent. In just 15 minutes you can have raspberry sauce that you can use in countless ways!
Tips For The Perfect Raspberry Sauce
- I use seedless jam in this recipe because the frozen berries contribute plenty of seeds to the sauce.
- If you don’t want any seeds, simply let the sauce cool a bit and strain the sauce through a sieve or fine mesh strainer to remove seeds and make the sauce more like a raspberry coulis.
- You can use fresh raspberries if you like.
- This recipe makes enough sauce to serve a crowd, but can easily be halved if you’re serving a smaller group.
- Typically I make a full batch to go with whatever dessert we’re having, then serve the leftovers over banana pancakes, buttermilk waffles, cheese blintzes or French toast casserole the next day.
Quick Tip
Make sure you mix your cornstarch in a little cold water to make a cornstarch slurry before adding it to the sauce.
Recipe FAQs
If you have extra raspberries, serve them whole on your dish or freeze them to use them at a later time.
You can keep raspberry sauce in an airtight container in a refrigerator for up to 4 days.
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How Do You Use Raspberry Sauce?
Raspberry sauce is the perfect component or finishing touch for a number of foods including:
- Yogurt
- Vanilla ice cream
- Cake
- Pancakes
- Waffles
- Trifle
- Angel food cake
Flavor Variations
This raspberry sauce is sweet and delicious as-is; however, you can change the recipe to suit your own taste.
- Lemon juice: For a more tart flavor add a little lemon juice.
- Berries: You can add other berries such as strawberries, blueberries or blackberries to this sauce.
- Vanilla: Try stirring in a little vanilla extract for a rich flavor.
Enjoy this sauce as a dessert or breakfast topping. Once you taste this sweet sauce over your favorite dishes, you will want to make it all the time!
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Raspberry Sauce
Ingredients
- 4 cups frozen raspberries unsweetened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 cup cold water
Instructions
- Place the raspberries in a medium pot over medium heat and cook for 5 minutes or until raspberries are thawed and starting to break down.
- Add the sugar and jam and bring to a simmer. Cook for 3 minutes.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the cornstarch and water until smooth. Add the cornstarch to the raspberry mixture and cook for 1 minute or until sauce has thickened. Cool, then enjoy!
Notes
- If you don’t want any seeds, simply let the sauce cool a bit and strain the sauce through a sieve to remove seeds.
- This recipe makes enough sauce to serve a crowd, but can easily be halved if you’re serving a smaller group.
This looks like a great neighbor gift for Christmas. Is it possible to bottle it so it will last longer
i was wondering that to, could it be frozen?
I think you could freeze this sauce, but it will likely be more watery when you thaw it!
Yum! This looks amazing! Can’t wait to pour this over vanilla ice cream!
So yummy! I’m putting in on my hot cereal!
A local restaurant used to serve this on the side with rice pudding. It was wonderful. They are no longer here so I hope this is similar to theirs. Sure looks the same!
Raspberries are my favorite fruit! I am so going to make this!
did you say Oreo cake??? OMG I want it now like I am craving this now!
Oh man this looks fantastic! Can I just have the raspberry sauce all on its own?! YUM!
This sauce is absolutely mouthwatering! Can’t wait to try this!
Wow this OREO Premium Ice Cream Cake looks amazing with the sauce. I will have to make some raspberry sauce this weekend. I am sure it will be a big hit.
Where is that drooling emoji with heart eyes? This looks so super yummy and only takes 15 minutes? It’s perfect for all the upcoming holiday parties!
I need this raspberry sauce in my life! It’s perfect for toppings on cake especially cheesecake and it’s nice to have in ice cream as well. There’s so much that you can do with it!
You had me at Oreo ice cream cake. I can on,y imagine how good it would taste with the raspberry sauce.
Wow. This raspberry sauce would be fantastic in most desserts and on a slice of freshly baked bread! Never knew it was that easy to make! Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Ooh, some raspberry sauce would be amazing for some of our desserts! Awesome idea to use it with the Oreo Ice Cream Cake!
I don’t know what I want more right now; that amazing Oreo ice cream cake or that tasty raspberry sauce. They both look so delicious and I am sure they make for a heavenly combo!
Oh I love the idea of making up this raspberry sauce. What a delicious treat this would be for the family one night for dessert. Thanks for giving the recipe out!
That is absolutely mouthwatering. I think this would be perfect over ice cream or a pound cake. I mean, in addition to being on the Oreo pie, of course. Om nom nom.
That raspberry sauce looks so good! Props for the creativity, too! Most people do strawberry or cherry. I can’t wait to try this!
That raspberry sauce sounds heavenly! I am totally making this over the weekend. Yum.
This looks so yummy and fancy! My family would love it!