Homemade Strawberry Glaze
This homemade Strawberry Glaze recipe is so easy to make! It is a great topping for many different dessert dishes, such as cheesecakes!
Ingredients
- 2 pounds (32 oz.) fresh strawberries, stems removed
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup water
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon corn starch
Instructions
- Combine the water, strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice in a large saucepan on high heat. Stir thoroughly while bringing it up to a boil.
- After the mixture begins to boil, reduce the heat to low, and allow to cook for up to ten minutes, occasionally stirring throughout. As the strawberries soften, use a wooden spoon to break them in pieces to release the flavors from the strawberries.
- Remove from heat. Using a strainer, pour liquid into a bowl ensuring to press as much juices through strainer with wooden spoon. Dispose any of the solid strawberries leftover from mixture, and return liquid to pan on low heat.
- Meanwhile, whisk the cornstarch with 3 tablespoons of water in a small bowl. Then, pour into the simmering pan of strawberry juice.
- Increase heat to high, and continue to whisk the mixture until it thickens into a glaze (approximately 3-5 minutes).
- Remove glaze from heat, and pour into separate bowl to cool down. Once the glaze has reached room temperature, place in refrigerator until it is chilled.
Notes / Suggestions
Try this delicious strawberry glaze recipe as a topping for The Perfect Cheesecake recipe!
Total Time (duration): 20-25 minutes
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Tried this glaze tonight for homemade mini shortcakes. It was pretty good… not real sweet. Used fresh strawberries and mashed them in the glaze cause my family prefers it that way. Thanks for a decent base recipe.
Renee, I’m glad you liked this strawberry glaze recipe. Feel free to add more sugar next time if you think it needs to be a little sweeter.
By the way…I like the idea of having chunks of strawberry in the glaze. Next time I make this, I will try mashing them into the glaze as you suggested. Thank you.
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only thing u didnt put when to add sugar!
Oops…you’re right melissa. I fixed it now though. Thanks for pointing that out.
Is this glaze thick enough to stay on the top of a cake? I want to decorate the top of a heart cake to look like a strawberry and use the glaze as the final layer, dotted with mini chocolate chips, but I’m afraid it might just run off? What do you think?
Mandy…the glaze should come through thick enough as long as you continue to whisk it for a few minutes.
However, if it doesn’t get to your desired thickness, you could easily whisk an additional tablespoon of corn starch with 3 tablespoons of water, and then stir it into the glaze. This will help thicken it even more. I’ve done this myself on a few occasions when it hasn’t gotten to my desired thickness.
Good luck and let me know how it comes out!
Used this recipe for a topping to my strawberry cheesecake!
I modified it a little, substituting lemon juice extract for lemon juice and I added a bit more sugar, but this turned out LOVELY.
There is no way to describe how delicious this glaze is.. it’s perfect. However, when I stirred the corn starch in, it left little white lumps, so I just poured the glaze through the strainer once more. I left it to refridgerate overnight, so it will be more of a syrupy glaze.
This is great. Thanks so much!