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Cranberry-Orange Dessert Sauce

By America's Test Kitchen

Published on July 22, 2011

Time

5 minutes

Yield

Makes about 1 cup

Cranberry-Orange Dessert Sauce

Ingredients

¼ cup orange juice concentrate 3 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon orange liqueur ½ cup cranberry sauce, leftover (see related Basic Cranberry Sauce recipe)

Before You Begin

Fresh and frozen cranberries work equally well. If you are using frozen, add one to two minutes to the cooking time.

Instructions

  1. Whisk orange juice concentrate, honey, orange liqueur, and leftover cranberry sauce.
Cranberry-Orange Dessert Sauce

Cranberry-Orange Dessert Sauce

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Time

5 minutes

Yield

Makes about 1 cup

Ingredients

¼ cup orange juice concentrate
3 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon orange liqueur
½ cup cranberry sauce, leftover (see related Basic Cranberry Sauce recipe)

Ingredients

¼ cup orange juice concentrate
3 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon orange liqueur
½ cup cranberry sauce, leftover (see related Basic Cranberry Sauce recipe)

Ingredients

¼ cup orange juice concentrate
3 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon orange liqueur
½ cup cranberry sauce, leftover (see related Basic Cranberry Sauce recipe)

Why This Recipe Works

With a little doctoring, we turned our recipe for Basic Cranberry Sauce into a versatile Cranberry-Orange Dessert Sauce.

The standard back-of-the-bag cranberry sauce recipe was a little soupy. Cranberries contain a lot of water, and cutting down on the additional liquid yields the ideal consistency. We found frozen cranberries worked equally well as fresh, but we needed to increase the cooking time slightly. Leaving the cranberry sauce for our Cranberry-Orange Dessert Sauce on the stove for too long left us with a mushy red mash, so it was important to keep a close eye on it as it cooked.

Before You Begin

Fresh and frozen cranberries work equally well. If you are using frozen, add one to two minutes to the cooking time.

Instructions

  1. Whisk orange juice concentrate, honey, orange liqueur, and leftover cranberry sauce.

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