This fast and easy Orange Glaze is perfect to use with your dessert and baked good recipes! A sweet citrus dessert sauce.
Why You Will Love This Recipe
Homemade Orange Glaze is an amazing, fast, and easy way to add extra flavor to your favorite baked goods and desserts!
A sweet orange flavor makes the perfect addition to enhance the citrus flavor as a sauce, light frosting, or finishing garnish.
It only takes a minute to whip up and gives a polished and finished look to your recipes!
Ingredients
These are the ingredients you need to make homemade orange glaze:
- Powdered Sugar (Confectioners Sugar)
- Orange Zest
- Orange Juice
- Salt
Equipment
This is the equipment you need to make the dessert glaze:
- Small Bowl
- Whisk
- Measuring Cups
- Measuring Spoons
Instruction Overview
Mix your ingredients together in a small bowl.
Adjust consistency as needed (see notes below in Kim’s Tips).
Use with your favorite muffins, cakes, cookies, and desserts as desired!
Kim’s Tips
Glaze will set and harden slightly as it sits.
If your glaze is too thin, you can add more sugar.
If the glaze is too thick, add a little more orange juice or water.
But remember that it will set up as it sits out!
FAQs
What is orange glaze made of?
Is glaze just sugar and water?
The tricky part is having the right ratio of moisture to sugar to get the consistency you want.
Why Does My Glaze Melt?
Make sure whatever you add the glaze to is completely cool!
How Long Does Glaze Take to Set?
How Do I Thicken Glaze?
How Do I Thin Out Glaze?
A little goes a long way!
Orange Glaze
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon orange zest
- ¼ cup orange juice
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients together in a small bowl. Mix.
- Adjust thickness as needed with more sugar or orange juice so that it is the thickness of a warm honey. Drizzle, pour, or dunk with cooled baked goods.
