Peanut Butter Sauce Recipe - The Spruce Eats

• The four-ingredient recipe is quick, needing only five minutes to finish on the stove.
• Using no-stir peanut butter ensures a velvety smooth sauce perfect for drizzling on desserts.
• Heavy cream makes this sauce rich, perfect for topping ice cream and pound cake.

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 with pancakes, 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 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 substitute it in this recipe if you don't mind its bolder flavor.

Tip for Making Peanut Butter Sauce Recipe

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.

What You'll Need to Make This Peanut Butter Sauce Recipe A Good Small Saucepan A Nice Set of Measuring Cups A Container to Store Leftovers

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