Sauce - Strawberry Sauce

By shelliec

Ingredients

• 1 pint strawberries
• 1/3 c. white sugar
• 1 tsp. almond extract (my favorite) or vanilla extract

Preparation

Step 1

Wash strawberries and remove stems. If you’re feeling ambitious, you can roughly chop the berries, but I say you’re already feeling ambitious enough by making your own strawberry sauce. So don’t sweat it.

Combine berries, sugar, and extract in medium saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook for five minutes, stirring/breaking strawberries up with a wooden spoon constantly.

After five minutes, remove from heat and allow to cool slightly (if you have a glass blender jar) and a lot (if you have a plastic blender jar). When cool enough, transfer mixture to blender and pulse until desired consistency is reached.

Wanna know what to do with it?

–Make banana splits with this and Sara’s hot fudge sauce
–Drizzle over plain ol‘ cheesecake
–Spoon some over this ice cream, with or without the cinnamon (depending on how brave you’re feeling)
–I’m envisioning this sauce atop a pizzookie with sugar cookie dough and lemon ice cream