Healthy Dessert Sauce & Topping Recipes

Try this versatile lemon sauce on warm gingerbread, vanilla frozen yogurt or a pile of fresh berries.

Try this ginger lemon sauce over poached pears or a slice of Buttermilk Pound Cake.

When combined with fresh blackberries, balsamic vinegar really enhances the berries' flavor and color. We suggest pairing this delicious sauce with vanilla ice cream.

Chocolate and orange are a sublime pairing. This is a good lower-fat chocolate sauce for ice cream, cake or fruit fondue.

Easy to make, this intensely flavored blueberry sauce is delicious on a stack of pancakes or atop a scoop of vanilla frozen yogurt.

Perfect for the holidays, this scrumptious--yet low-calorie--dessert casserole is topped with a deep red cranberry-pomegranate sauce.

Sweet Marsala delicately flavors this creamy, low-fat raspberry sauce.

This homemade ice cream sauce is easy to make and will delight your taste buds. Tart cherries are cooked with amaretto and brown sugar until thickened and bubbly, and then further flavored with a touch of almond extract. It tastes so good you may never want to buy that store-bought chocolate sauce again!

Simmering wild blueberries with lemon zest and vanilla makes a tasty quick jam or dessert topping. Serve the compote on pancakes, stir it into yogurt or use it to top ice cream.

Buckwheat flour gives these whole-grain crepes a nutty flavor and makes this dessert naturally gluten-free. Stuffed with lightly spiced, cooked rhubarb and fresh strawberries, the crepes are a head-turner when they get a drizzle of white chocolate sauce.

Fresh blackberries, called for in this recipe, are gems. Use frozen berries if fresh are not in season.

This decadent orange curd recipe provides a blast of citrus that will make citrus lovers pucker with joy. This technique is slightly different than a traditional curd in that the butter is whisked into the egg-sugar mixture as it's heating rather than being creamed with the sugar first. It is a bit more fussy than just mixing it all up in the pot, but the velvety results are well worth it. Spoon it over Buttermilk Poundcake (see Associated Recipe) or over scoops of vanilla ice cream.

Raspberry jam adds sheen and a fruity accent to this dessert sauce.

Rich and chocolaty, this sauce is perfect for topping frozen yogurt, pancakes or waffles.

This frozen yogurt is fun to make! The coconut and almond flavor is rich and tastes amazing when drizzled with the homemade chocolate sauce.

Take advantage of fresh summer peaches and whip up this peach-bourbon ice cream sauce. It tastes incredible on butter pecan ice cream, but you'll love it on plain vanilla, too!

A cake with a meringue? Though not unheard of, this one is definitely a flight of fancy, a cakey version of Key lime pie.

Cooked blueberries provide a base for a sauce of whole fresh berries. Serve over lemon sorbet or pound cake.

Try flavoring this light, versatile sauce with different liqueurs or extracts to top other desserts.

This rich pecan topping is a saucy version of the traditional Louisiana confection. Add a splash of bourbon if you like. Serve over your favorite frozen yogurt or dip in banana slices.

Serve this spirited strawberry sauce over Mango-Lime Sorbet or fresh fruit.

This quick caramel sauce is made lighter with evaporated fat-free milk and uses molasses to give it rich flavor.

Mascarpone is a rich, creamy Italian cheese with a very high fat content. A little goes a long way, so just a small amount is needed in the stuffing for this fig dessert recipe.

Ready in just 20 minutes, this dessert will keep you coming back for more.