Healthy Dessert Sauce & Topping Recipes

If you're a fan of lemon meringue pie, you'll love this festive cranberry meringue pie recipe. For the fluffiest meringue, set your eggs out at room temperature for about 15 minutes or submerge (in the shell) in a bowl of lukewarm water for 5 minutes before beating--egg whites at room temperature will gain more volume than cold whites.

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

Bright and tangy, this sauce is delicious on sponge cake.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Infusing this simple custard sauce with a vanilla bean adds rich flavor. Try it on your favorite summer shortcake or fruit pie.

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.

Add a twist of sweet, fruity flavor to your morning yogurt with this Vanilla Bean and Blueberry Yogurt topper.

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

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.

Keep quick fruit sauces on hand in the summer for topping vanilla frozen yogurt.

Sliced bananas would be a delicious addition to this smooth, rich coffee-rum sauce. Serve over frozen yogurt.

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

Dark, glossy and slightly bittersweet, this sauce is both easy to make and a good keeper; serve it right from the refrigerator. Recipe by Nancy Baggett for EatingWell.

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!

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

Frozen berries turn into a quick and simple sauce--a dash of crème de cassis makes it special.

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

Perfect for topping ice cream, this is a great standby, all-purpose chocolate sauce. Or simply set out a bowl of the sauce and dip pound cake, strawberries or other fruit into it.

Tangy raspberry sauce tastes great over vanilla frozen yogurt or a stack of pancakes.