Easy Cherry Sauce recipe. Made with only 3 ingredients, this makes a great quick and simple topping for ice cream or pancakes.
Vanilla ice cream: yea or nay?
When given a choice of ice creams to buy, I will buy vanilla 90% of the time. Call me basic, but you really can’t go wrong. And if you get bored of vanilla ice cream? A great way to jazz it up is to top it with some fruit sauces! And this sweet Cherry Sauce is perfect ice cream topping, in case you were wondering.
This is such a simple recipe, you are going to want to take advantage of cherry season and make this recipe all of the time. It’s that time of year, so I have already bought 5 pounds of cherries. Expect to see many more cherry recipes around here.
Cherry Sauce Ingredients
You need 3 simple ingredients to make this fresh cherry sauce (plus water, but I don’t really count that as an ingredient). All you need is:
- pitted cherries
- white sugar
- cornstarch
Equipment
- cherry pitter (optional, but very handy!)
- medium saucepan
- small bowl
Tips
Storage: store this cherry dessert sauce in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Type of cherries to use: It really depends on your personal preference. If you wanted a sauce for more sweet dishes, try using bing cherries. If you didn’t want this sauce overly sweet, try looking for some sour cherries or some tart cherries to use in this recipe.
What can you use this sauce for? This sauce is the perfect topping for your favorite desserts. I love putting it on top of chocolate cake or pound cake
Variations
Savory Cherry Sauce: only use a little sugar, then add a little balsamic vinegar to the cornstarch slurry. I like using this on top of savory dishes, like pork chops, roast chicken or pork tenderloin.
Switch up the fruit. To make different homemade sauces with different fruit, just make the full recipe as is but replace the cherries with the equivalent amount of another fruit. I love it with blackberries or strawberries, but any fruit would work!
More Easy Sauce Recipes
Do you like this delicious homemade Cherry Sauce recipe? Then you will love these delicious sauce recipes:
And if you try this recipe, let me know! Give it a star rating, leave a comment and tag me with #atasteofmadness on Instagram! I always love seeing what you are creating!
Cherry Sauce
Ingredients
- 3/4 lb fresh cherries, sliced and pitted
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 4 Tbsp water, divided
Instructions
- Add the cherries, sugar and 2 Tbsp water in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat until the cherries are tender.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl mix together the cornstarch and the remaining 2 Tbsp water until smooth.
- Slowly whisk in the cornstarch mixture into the cherry mixture and cook at a low hear until the sauce has thickened.
Notes
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 week.
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With the cherry season in full swing, this is the perfect time to make this sauce. Great for waffles, pancakes, ice cream, and more. I would even eat it right off the spoon.
Yes, off the spoon is my favourite 😉
This cherry sauce was delicious! I had a ton of cherries so I made a bigger batch. Added it to our oatmeal in the morning and later served it on ice cream. So good!
It’s so good in oatmeal!! So glad you liked it 🙂
Cherry season is my favourite! This is a great sauce to whip up with the last of a bowl full of cherries and so delicious on ice cream or ever yogurt. It’s a keeper!
Yay! That makes me so happy to hear!
So simple and such an easy way to use cherries when in season. Served over a bowl of icecream and it was magnificent!
It is perfect with ice cream 😉
This homemade cherry sauce is so much better than any canned cherry concoctions I’ve ever had! It was perfect on top of vanilla cheesecake!
Agree! So glad you liked it 🙂
This was absolutely fantastic! We made it to use on a few different things and we’ve already fallen in love! Thank you!
That makes me so happy to hear!
oh, gosh! Freakin delicious! So easy and turned out awesome.
I am so glad it worked out for you 🙂
Thanks for this recipe and it’s derivations. We will put them to good use (grin). Cheers!
Yay! so glad 🙂
Made this tonight to go with some homemade ice cream and it was a total hit. Super easy and tasty.
That makes me so happy to hear 🙂
I’m always looking for new cherry recipes to try and this sauce looks fabulous! Perfect for ice cream, cakes, yogurt, pancakes…the list goes on! I have a bowl of cherries in the fridge and I cannot wait to make this now. Thank you for delicious idea!
Yay! Hope you love it as much as we do 🙂
We ate so with you on the vanilla ice cream especially if we had that cherry sauce. So easy and what a topper. I am so craving this right now!😋🥰😍❤️👌👍
The best combo!!
I made this as a treat for the kids. We drizzled it over vanilla ice cream. Delicious! Will definitely make this again!
Yay! So glad you liked it!
Oh my, this cherry sauce looks absolutely yummy! The color it gives makes it so enticing and tempting! Perfect topping for our staple food! Totally loved it!
So glad you liked it! 🙂
This is definitely easy and delicious. I am going to make this for my ice cream toppings.
So good for ice cream! 🙂