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!

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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. Learn how to make strawberry sauce and you’ll understand what all the hype is about!

Why You’ll Love this Strawberry Sauce Recipe

You can use fresh or frozen strawberries to make this tasty strawberry sauce. So even if these fresh berries are out of season, a sauce can still be made!
It only takes 15 minutes to make this sticky sweet strawberry sauce. It’ll be ready in a moment’s notice!
Fresh strawberry syrup keeps in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. A great thing to keep on hand for whenever you need it.

Ingredients for homemade strawberry sauce including sugar, cornstarch, strawberries, water and red food coloing

Ingredients for Strawberry Sauce

Strawberries – For the best flavor, use ripe and juicy strawberries! However, you can also use frozen strawberries in a pinch.
Granulated white sugar – Sweeten this yummy sauce with some simple white sugar.
Water – Help bring the ingredients together with some water. For the best flavor, use filtered water instead of tap.
Cornstarch – Cornstarch will help thicken the strawberry sauce to a spreadable consistency.
Red food coloring – This is optional, but if you’d like your sauce to have a brighter color then add a few drops of red food coloring.

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How to Make Strawberry Sauce

Place a cup of the chopped strawberries into a small bowl and then mash until there’s not many chunks and set aside.
Then place the mashed strawberries in a saucepan with the cornstarch, sugar and water. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly.
Cook for for about 3 minutes, or until it has thickened. Then remove from heat and stir in the reserved chopped strawberries.
Transfer the strawberry sauce mixture to a bowl and let it cool for 10-15 minutes. Then pour into a jar or airtight container and secure a lid to the top.
Store immediately in the fridge and enjoy as desired!

Should I use frozen or fresh strawberries to make strawberry sauce?

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!

How to Store Strawberry Sauce

Store in an airtight container or mason jar in the fridge for 2 weeks. Any container with an airtight seal will work!

Can strawberry sauce be frozen?

Place into a freezer-safe container, even a freezer safe plastic bag, and then freeze for 3-4 months. Allow to thaw overnight in the fridge before using!

How to use Strawberry Sauce

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.
It’s a delicious filling for crepes, and an extra dollop on top is just so yummy!
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! Or make strawberry shortcake by serving this over some classic Angel Food Cake.
Add this easy strawberry sauce as a layer in my Banana Split Trifle – this is a great dessert for a crowd!

Pro Tips for the Best Strawberry Sauce

If you prefer a less chunky sauce, you can mash all of the strawberries and cook them with the cornstarch and other ingredients.
You can rewarm the sauce on the stove or in the microwave! I love warm strawberry sauce on top of cold vanilla ice cream.
Adjust the sweetness as needed. Some strawberries are almost so sweet that they don’t need sugar! So feel free to use less sugar in your batch of sauce.

Slice of Angel food cake on plate with strawberry sauce. An angel food cake in background with strawberry sauce in dish.

This strawberry topping tastes so good on SO many different treats and desserts! I hope you enjoy.

More Sauce Topping Recipes

Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce is a Thanksgiving MUST! Way better than that canned stuff from the grocery store.
Skip store-bought and make homemade Hot Fudge Sauce instead. It’s so yummy on top of ice cream!
This Homemade Caramel Sauce is another topping that will knock your socks off.
Looking for something savory instead? Check out this Alfredo Sauce to serve over noodles!

Did you make this? If you snap a photo, please be sure tag me on Instagram at @julieseatsandtreats or #julieseatsandtreats so I can see your yummy treat!

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