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.

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

Best Apple Butter Recipe

Homemade Apple Butter

Spooning homemade dulce de leche from a blue patterned bowl.

Easy Dulce de Leche Recipe

Finished Béarnaise sauce in a glass dish with a spoon inside.

Béarnaise Sauce

Fruit salsa in a bowl

Fruit Salsa

Homemade blue cheese dressing recipe, prepared and presented in a glass dish with sliced scallions on top.

Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe

Overhead image of chicken Dijon in a white ceramic skillet

Chicken Dijon

Hot honey in a crystal beehive pot with a drizzler.

Hot Honey

Whipped honey butter in a small hobnail ramekin.

Honey Butter

Spooning apricot jam from a glass jar.

Apricot Jam

Spaghetti alla puttanesca nestled into a white ceramic bowl.

Puttanesca Sauce

Barbecue sauce in a shallow glass dish with a basting brush.

Barbecue Sauce

A tangle of lemon pasta in a shallow bowl with a sprig of fresh basil.

Lemon Pasta

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