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Try this easy peanut butter sauce on ice cream, cheesecake, pound cake, and so much more.
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Updated on 02/26/24
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Prep: 5 mins
Cook: 5 mins
Total: 10 mins
Servings: 6 servings
Yield: 1 1/4 cups
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This peanut butter sauce is super easy to make—it requires just four ingredients and takes about five minutes to whip together on the stove. It is a fantastic warm dessert topping when drizzled over ice cream, pound cake,cheesecake, bread pudding, and more. You can even serve it withpancakes, waffles, or biscuits for a decadent twist on an everyday breakfast. And a little spread on a brownie will make any chocolate and peanut butter fan jump with joy.
The 4 Simple Ingredients You Need to Make Outrageously Delicious Peanut Butter Sauce
Here's everything you need for this simple, sensational dessert sauce:
- Peanut butter—Be sure to choose a creamy, no-stir peanut butter for the smoothest sauce.
- Heavy whipping cream—Heavy cream gives this sauce a wonderful richness.
- Corn syrup—The corn syrup in this recipe helps to create a smooth sauce by preventing the sugar from crystallizing, while it helps add moisture and sweetness to the sauce as well. You can substitute dark corn syrup for the light; however, the more robust flavor of the dark corn syrup—versus the delicate sweetness of the light corn syrup—will affect the final taste of the sauce.
- Light brown sugar—This recipe calls for light brown sugar, which has a lighter taste and color because it has less molasses than dark brown sugar. If all you have on hand is dark brown sugar, feel free to sub it in this recipe if you don't mind its bolder flavor.
How Do You Thin Peanut Butter Sauce to Drizzle?
If your peanut butter sauce is too thick to drizzle, simply add water a little bit at a time (no more than a tablespoon at once) and stir to incorporate. Keep adding water until the sauce reaches the consistency you like, keeping in mind that it will likely thicken a bit once you remove it from the heat. Fortunately unlike chocolate sauce, peanut butter sauce won't seize, separate, or get lumpy when you add water.
Delicious Ways to Use Your Homemade Peanut Butter Sauce
This sauce tastes great on just about any dessert, sweet breakfast, or snack. Here are some of our favorite ways to use it to turn anything it touches from ordinary to extraordinary.
- Drizzled over homemade or store-bought vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream
- Spooned over pound cake or cheesecake
- Atop pancakes, waffles or biscuits for breakfast
- Poured over bread pudding
- Spread on a brownie
- As a dipping sauce for bananas, apple slices and other fruit
What You'll Need to Make This Peanut Butter Sauce Recipe
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"Peanut butter lovers will go crazy for this sauce. I used natural creamy peanut butter, and the texture of the sauce was a bit less cohesive looking than if I had used a no-stir variety. Still, the natural peanut butter worked well even if the sauce didn't look as pretty, and it tasted great." —Danielle Centoni
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Ingredients
1/2 cup smooth no-stir peanut butter
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
Ice cream, pound cake, cheesecake, or another dessert, for serving
Steps to Make It
Gather the ingredients.
Combine 1/2 cup smooth no-stir peanut butter, 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream, 2 tablespoons corn syrup, and 1/4 cup light brown sugar in a small saucepan.Heat over low heat, stirring, until smooth and the ingredients are well incorporated—about 4 minutes.
Continue to cook, stirring constantly, until the sugar is dissolved and the sauce is smooth. Do not overcook or the sauce will become too thick. Add a bit of water if it is too thick.
Remove from the heat and cool slightly before serving.
Serve over ice cream, pound cake, cheesecake, or your favorite dessert, and enjoy.
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How to Store Peanut Butter Sauce
- The peanut butter sauce will last for up to two weeks covered well in the refrigerator. Before serving, warm over low heat, adding a tablespoon or so of heavy whipping cream to thin if necessary.
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| Nutrition Facts (per serving) | |
|---|---|
| 243 | Calories |
| 18g | Fat |
| 19g | Carbs |
| 5g | Protein |
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| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Servings: 6 | |
| Amount per serving | |
| Calories | 243 |
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 18g | 23% |
| Saturated Fat 7g | 33% |
| Cholesterol 22mg | 7% |
| Sodium 114mg | 5% |
| Total Carbohydrate 19g | 7% |
| Dietary Fiber 1g | 4% |
| Total Sugars 15g | |
| Protein 5g | |
| Vitamin C 0mg | 1% |
| Calcium 32mg | 2% |
| Iron 1mg | 3% |
| Potassium 156mg | 3% |
| *The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice. | |
(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)
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- peanut butter sauce
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