96 sugar glaze recipes

Delicious pork chops are seared in a hot skillet, sugar snap peas are cooked in a flavorful broth, which makes this one-skillet meal that's quick, easy to prepare and perfect for a week day dinner.

Tender baby carrots glazed with melted brown sugar and butter. This quick side dish caramelizes as it cooks, creating a sweet, glossy coating that clings to every carrot.

Summer pudding-style fruit cake lined with sponge cake and packed with kirsch-soaked strawberries, blackberries, cherries, and currants. Chilled overnight and unmolded.

Chestnut meringues with chopped marrons glaces folded through crisp, snowy French meringue, dusted with cocoa. A delicate, old-world European cookie for tea trays and holiday gift tins.

Japanese-style beef stir-fry with thinly sliced flank steak, snow peas, red pepper, escarole, and fresh ginger in a soy-brown sugar glaze. A fast, colorful skillet dinner.

Irish curd cake: a traditional sieved cottage cheese cheesecake in a shortbread crust with lemon zest and a sugar-butter glaze. Light alternative to heavy American cheesecake.

Grilled pork chops marinated in soy sauce, lemon juice, chili sauce, and brown sugar. A sweet-savory-spicy glaze that caramelizes beautifully on the grill.

Homemade sweet lotus root chips fry thin, lacy slices of lotus root until crisp, then glaze them in coconut treacle, sugar, and cinnamon. A pretty, sticky-sweet snack with a satisfying crunch.

Eccles cakes pack currants, mixed peel and warming spice inside flaky rough puff pastry, glazed with milk and crunchy caster sugar. Classic Lancashire teatime pastry from northwest England.

Amaretto cheesecake delite blends silken tofu and reduced-fat cream cheese into a lighter cheesecake spiked with amaretto and vanilla. Topped with caramelized almonds on a chocolate cookie crust.

Pineapple glaze for baked ham made with crushed pineapple, brown sugar, lemon juice, and mustard. Thick, sweet-tangy, and ready in 10 minutes on the stovetop.

Microwave glazed baked ham with brown sugar, dry mustard, pineapple rings, and whole cloves. A retro holiday ham done in under 30 minutes of cook time.

Chewy, warmly spiced mincemeat squares with cinnamon, nutmeg, and bran, drizzled with a sweet confectioners' sugar glaze. A cozy holiday baking treat that makes 16 shareable squares.

BBQ Pork Roast with a sage, allspice, coriander, and nutmeg spice crust, slow-roasted on a dome grill using indirect heat, then finished with an applesauce and brown sugar glaze.

A grilled ham steak glazed with a boiled-down brown sugar, horseradish, and lemon juice sauce. Just 4 ingredients for a sweet, spicy, caramelized glaze.

Simple honey-glazed ham with brown sugar, cinnamon, and Dijon mustard. Score the surface, brush with glaze, baste with apple juice for a sticky-sweet holiday centerpiece.