Delicious Vanilla Sauce Recipe

Warm Vanilla Sauce

This delicious vanilla sauce recipe is great served with many hot desserts. Serve warm vanilla sauce with bread pudding (Ofenschlupfer), dessert dumplings (Dampfnudeln), chocolate pudding, baked apples (Bratapfeln) or your favourite dessert.

It is very quick and easy to prepare and tastes so much nicer than sauce out of a packet.

Ingredients

Beat the egg yolks with the cornstarch, sugar and vanilla sugar to a smooth paste free from lumps. Then whisk in the milk.

Split the vanilla pod lengthways and scrape out the seeds. Mix the seeds and pod into the egg and milk mixture.

Heat in a pan over a medium heat until the sauce thickens. Do not allow to boil. Remove the vanilla pod and serve immediately.