Baking A Moment

Sauces and Toppings

Dip, drizzle, or drench! These recipes for sauces and compotes will totally take your creations to the next level. Tons of great ideas here!

Top favorites include Raspberry Sauce, Dulce de Leche, and Cranberry Sauce.

Ham glaze recipe brushed on a spiral sliced ham, cooked, and presented on an enamelware tray.

Ham Glaze Recipe

Bolognese sauce served over cooked spaghetti with a dollop of ricotta.

Bolognese Sauce

Chocolate whipped cream piled into a blue and white bowl.

Chocolate Whipped Cream Frosting

White beans and greens in a bowl with sweet Italian sausage and ditalini pasta.

White Beans and Greens with Sausage

Tomato sauce being ladled from a large enameled cast iron Dutch oven.

Tomato Sauce

Chicken marsala served over mashed potatoes in a shallow ceramic bowl.

Chicken Marsala

Rich, shiny chocolate glaze for drizzling over cakes or topping donuts.

Chocolate Glaze

Grilled bang bang shrimp bowl with fresh veggies in the background.

Grilled Bang Bang Shrimp Bowls

Pesto recipe, prepared and served in a shallow glass jar.

Basil Pesto Recipe

Marmalade in a glass jelly jar with a white ceramic spoon.

Orange Marmalade

Dipping a homemade soft pretzel into beer cheese.

Beer Cheese

Sweet potato fries on a metal sheet pan with a bowl of creamy dipping sauce.

Sweet Potato Fries with Skinny Horseradish Dijon Dip

Ladling brown gravy from a bone china gravy boat.

How to Make Gravy

Applesauce in a colorful bowl, with apples in the background.

Homemade Applesauce Recipe

Small jar of homemade lemon curd on a yellow checked cloth.

Homemade Lemon Curd

Bananas Foster in a white bowl with vanilla ice cream.

Bananas Foster

Overhead image of a spoonful of brown butter over a bowl with a blue checkered napkin.

How to Brown Butter

Square image of a small glass pitcher of thick raspberry sauce, being spooned out with a white ceramic spoon.

Raspberry Sauce

Small jar of homemade strawberry jam with a white ceramic spoon.

Strawberry Jam

Spooning homemade dulce de leche from a blue patterned bowl.

Easy Dulce de Leche Recipe

Best Cranberry Sauce Recipe

Homemade Cranberry Sauce

Best Apple Butter Recipe

Homemade Apple Butter Recipe

Best Cherry Cheesecake Recipe

Cherry Cheesecake

Creme Anglaise: rich, velvety vanilla custard sauce being poured over a bowl of berries, sitting on a linen napkin with a gold spoon off to one side.

Creme Anglaise