Creamy Lemon Dessert Sauce

5 from 6 votes

This Creamy Lemon Dessert Sauce is sweet, tangy, and made with just 5 ingredients. Perfect for berries, cheesecake, ice cream, and pound cake.

Prep Time5

Cook Time10

Total Time15

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 174.4

Author: Taryn Scarfone

Ingredients

6 tbsp butter
3/4 cup cream light or heavy
1 cup Joy Filled Eats Sweetener (or see alternatives in recipe notes)
3 egg yolks
2 oz lemon juice from 2-3 lemons

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Instructions

Cook the first three ingredients in a small saucepan over medium low heat until slightly thickened.
Put the egg yolks into a medium sized heatproof bowl or measuring cup. While whisking the yolks very slowly pour half of the sauce into the egg yolks. This slowly warms the yolks so they don’t curdle.
Now, slowly whisk the yolk mixture and sauce back into the saucepan. Cook over medium low until it is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Whisk in the lemon juice.
Strain through a fine mesh sieve into a glass jar and store in the fridge.

Notes

Notes on Sweeteners:

I use my own blend of xylitol, erythritol, and stevia in my recipes. This is twice as sweet as sugar. It is comparable to Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet and Truvia.

To sub in Swerve or Lakanto Monk Fruit use 1.5 times the amount of sweetener called for.

To sub in Pyure or Trim Healthy Mama Super Sweet use half the amount of sweetener called for.

Substitutions will work in most recipes. They may not work in candies, such as caramel.

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