The Best Ice Cream Sauce Recipes

This post has a round-up of 21 delicious Ice Cream Sauce Recipes. From classic hot fudge to unique balsamic Strawberry sauce, this post has so many Ice Cream topping recipe ideas. So, level up your dessert game with these 21 yummy ice cream dessert topping ideas!

The Best Ice Cream Sauce Recipes

The Best Ice Cream Sauce Recipes

3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Ice Cream Sauce

This 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Ice Cream Sauce recipe is so rich and decadent. It is mildly sweet, so easy to make and is delicious on ice cream, pancakes, waffles, and more. This recipe comes together in less than 10 minutes and makes enough for a small crowd to enjoy.

Peanut Butter Ice Cream Sauce
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Toffee Sauce

Who doesn’t love a rich, buttery toffee sauce for the perfect topping on ice cream or other delectable sweet treats? Sweet and ooey-gooey, the deep amber color will make it hard to stop with just a drizzle.

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Homemade Fresh Peach Sauce

The uses for fresh peach sauce are endless. It makes a great topping over ice cream and cake, delicious yogurt parfait, frozen popsicle, or Peach Bellini.

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Thick Maple Cream Sauce

Used as a topping for desserts like ice cream or even mixed into a savory dish to elevate it, this Maple Cream Sauce is the best new sauce of the season!

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Butterscotch Sauce

Homemade Butterscotch Sauce is a quick and easy treat made in less than ten minutes. It’s a silky smooth sauce with flavors of brown sugar and butter and is delicious on ice cream, pie, and so much more. 

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Butter Pecan Sauce

Easy Butter Pecan Sauce made with 6 ingredients! A creamy, gooey sauce filled with pecans and the perfect topping for ice cream or any dessert!

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Homemade Blueberry Sauce

Homemade blueberry sauce is the perfect topping for pancakes, cheesecake, or ice cream. You can make it with fresh or frozen berries, and it comes together in under 15 minutes.  Sweet & juicy – this fresh blueberry sauce recipe will transform any dessert. 

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Easy Pineapple Topping

Easy Pineapple Topping is perfect for ice cream sundaes, cheesecakes, and more made in just a few minutes with just three ingredients!

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Salted Caramel Sauce 

Salted Caramel is the perfect sauce for ice cream, cakes, or pies. With just 5 ingredients it’s done in 5 minutes and it’s an easy caramel sauce that is spoon-worthy. The BEST part about this recipe is how easy it is. There’s no guesswork – it works every time!

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Balsamic Strawberry Sauce

Balsamic Strawberry Sauce is best served over ice cream, but it’s also terrific served over cheesecake, panna cotta, or even as a filling for crepes. The black pepper added to the sauce makes it interesting. It adds another level of depth and complexity that is unexpected!

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Red Wine Caramel Sauce

Elevate homemade caramel sauce with the addition of red wine! Full-bodied, robust, and sweet this Red Wine Caramel Sauce is perfect for desserts! Serve over ice cream, on top of brownies, or just off a spoon!

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Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce 

Homemade hot fudge sauce comes together in just 5 minutes on the stove, and you can use it on any and all of your ice cream confections, from ice cream cake to brownie sundaes… or serve it as a dip for fruit… or simply savor a spoonful of it all on its own!

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Butter Rum Sauce

Butter Rum Sauce is a buttery caramel-like sauce that has a lovely flavor from the dark rum. Don’t worry it doesn’t taste like a cocktail as the liquor will boil out during cooking. It is made with 5 simple ingredients – butter, brown sugar, sugar, cream, and dark rum.

a mason jar full of butter rum sauce

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Homemade Marshmallow Sauce 

Homemade marshmallow sauce is a delicious topping for ice cream sundaes. Marshmallow sauce is easy and inexpensive to make, and it tastes so much better than store the store bought variety.

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Homemade Cherry Sauce

This homemade cherry sauce is easy to make and only has a few, simple ingredients. It’s vegan-friendly, naturally sweetened, and gluten-free! It’s a delicious topping for pancakes, oatmeal, ice cream, cheesecake, cakes, and more!

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Coffee Salted Caramel Sauce

Add a little twist to your favorite salted caramel sauce with coffee! This coffee-salted caramel sauce infuses those wonderful coffee flavors with sweet and slightly salty caramel that will have you eating it out of the jar with a spoon!

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Strawberry Syrup

This is such a simple and easy recipe for Fresh Strawberry Syrup, that anyone can make! No cooking, or straining is required in this recipe, a blender is all you need!

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Gingerbread Caramel Sauce 

Gingerbread caramel sauce tastes like all the wonderful spices of the holidays in molten sugar heaven. Use this as a dessert sauce, for ice cream, or just as a dip for apples or cookies.

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Roasted Raspberry Sauce

This Oven Roasted Raspberry Sauce is complex and well-balanced, sweet, tart, rich, with just the right fruit flavor.

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Homemade Chocolate Shell

A twist on the sore-bought magic shell, this Homemade Chocolate shell has only 2 ingredients and is just as magical!

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Vanilla Butter Sauce

With 4 simple ingredients, this rich, buttery vanilla sauce is ready in less than 10 minutes. While it might seem basic and simple, the flavor is out of this world. Use this vanilla sauce for bread pudding, bundt cakes, and regular cakes and it’s rather dreamy over ice cream.

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