Pecan Praline Sauce Recipe
Meet the luscious dessert sauce of your dreams — this homemade pecan praline sauce! Made with toasted pecans and rich dark brown sugar, this praline sauce adds the most exquisite touch to any dessert.
How to Make the Best Pecan Praline Sauce
This homemade pecan praline sauce is the ultimate dessert topping you didn’t know you needed. Rich, decadent, and surprisingly simple to make, this sauce transforms ordinary desserts into something truly extraordinary. With toasted pecans and dark brown sugar as the star ingredients, every spoonful delivers indulgent flavor and silky-smooth texture.
What makes this sauce so special is how quickly it comes together—in less than twenty minutes, you’ll have a gourmet topping that tastes like it took hours to prepare. The key is constantly whisking as the mixture thickens, creating that perfect sauce consistency that coats the back of a spoon beautifully.
Whether you’re drizzling it over vanilla ice cream, layering it on cheesecake, or swirling it into brownies, this pecan praline sauce elevates every bite. Once you make it, you’ll find yourself reaching for it again and again.
Pecan Praline Sauce
Meet the luscious dessert sauce of your dreams — this homemade pecan praline sauce! Made with toasted pecans and rich dark brown sugar, this praline sauce adds the most exquisite touch to any dessert.
Ingredients
Main
Instructions
Instructions
- Melt butter in a small skillet over medium heat. Add pecans and cook for about four minutes until the pecans are toasted and the butter begins to brown.
- Whisk in dark brown sugar, heavy cream, dark corn syrup, cornstarch and salt. Constantly whisking, cook until the sauce comes to a boil and thickens. This should take about six to eight minutes.
- Turn off the heat and stir in vanilla extract. Enjoy!
Notes
- This sauce comes together in fewer than 20 minutes.
- Drizzle over ice cream, cheesecake, brownies, cakes and more.
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.