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This Homemade Barbecue Sauce……it’s just like Sweet Baby Ray’s and it totally has me wishful thinking…Come on. We were almost there, we even had some nice warm sunny days. I could feel spring!
Not!
But then, yeah you guessed it. It totally snowed last night.
I am not going back to my winter ways. I am rebelling against this weather!
It is April gosh darn it!
Technically I know April is a little early to be breaking out the grill, but let’s just say I am getting you guys ready for that hot spring day when you decide it is time to break out the grill.
Before you know April will be over, mid May will hit and with it will come (hopefully) warm temps! Or maybe you are lucky enough to be in one of those spots where the warm weather has already arrived…lucky you.
Really is there a better way to prepare for outdoor cooking than homemade BBQ sauce!
It’s pretty much any griller’s favorite sauce.
Heck whether you are griller, broiler, Gorge Foreman lover or baker, it is still probably your favorite sauce.
Over here we grill all year round. The boys CANNOT live without their grilled chicken or steak and my dad only likes his fish grilled. Not seared, not baked and not fried. Grilled.
So our grill gets a whole lot of use.
Therefore, we also go through a whole lot of BBQ sauce. Obviously.
Hands down, around here the family favorite is Sweet Baby Ray’s.
The problem? It is filled to the brim with high fructose corn syrup! Barf.
So I made my own. And oh fudge it is good! And like ridiculously easy. It takes me ten minutes to throw together! Yes, just 10 minutes! You definitely can’t get to the store and back in 10 minutes! Plus, my guess is you have every single ingredient in your kitchen right now. Honestly, it could not be simpler and it could not taste better. Even the texture is stop on. Sweet Baby Ray himself would not be able to tell the difference.
Yeah, I am serious. It is that good.
Homemade Barbecue Sauce....Just Like Sweet Baby Ray
Servings: 2 cups
Calories Per Serving: 497 kcal
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups ketchup preferably organic
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1/4 cup pineapple juice or you can sub apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tablespoon worchestire sauce
- 2 1/2 teaspoons ground mustard
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4-1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper use less if you don't like the heat
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients size sauce pot. Bring to a boil and reduce and simmer for five minutes or until all the sugar has dissolved. Serve immediately or cover and store in fridge.
Notes
Nutritional values are based on one cup of sauce
Bone suckin’, lick the spoon (jar, bowl, table, whatever), good!
This post was originally published on April 7, 2013
I’ve never tried Sweet Baby Ray’s sauce but I loved yours soooo much that I even won’t search for it 😀 So easy and so delicious.
Hands down my favorite BBQ sauce (my family’s too!) I omitted the cayenne and I didn’t see the point of adding water only to add corn starch to thicken it, so I left out ALL water and cornstarch. Consistency is fantastic! Thank you for this!
How long does this barbeque stay fresh for?
Hey Julie!! I would say up to two weeks, but honestly probably a lot longer! Two weeks is being safe!
Hope you love this!
Great sauce recipe! I added a 1/4 cup of local honey to mine. Once cooled I fluffed it up in the blender.
Thanks Scott!! That honey sounds awesome!
I am really fond of BBQ recipe. For that reason I need BBQ sauce. This BBQ sauce recipe really superb and I think it’s cheaper also. I will do it at my home.
Thanks! Hope you love it!
Tieghan, the only thing you forgot to say about this recipe is that you need to make two batches, one to eat with a spoon and the other to slather on your chicken! I’ve tried umpteen bbq sauce recipes and this is the ultimate. And where I live, we’ve never heard of Sweet Baby Ray’s!! This will defo become a staple in my fridge 🙂
Oh yeah! SO happy you love this! It is totally spoon worthy! Thanks so much!
Really good BBQ sauce. It doesn’t taste anything like Sweet Baby Rays but it is a sweet and delicious sauce.
Thanks so much, Ashlie! Glad you liked it!
I didn’t make the full quantity, I only had two small racks of ribs but used the same ingredients and it was amazingly good. My daughter who is the BBQ sauce lover in the family has ordered me to never buy bottled BBQ sauce again. Going to make the full recipe and bottle it. Thank you from down under.
Yay! I am thrilled you LOVED it!!
I’ve never made my own BBQ sauce before. I will NEVER buy sauce at the store again!! I could seriously eat this by itself (or at least clean out the pan that it was cooked in). Didn’t have any smoked paprika, so I had to sub regular paprika and 1/2 tsp liquid smoke. Left out the cayenne completely cause I’m not a “hot” person. It was perfect for us. Thank you so much!!
YES!! It is so goo isn’t? So happy you guys liked this!!
Tieghan, I’m from Sydney Australia and just found a rib recipe that uses Sweet Baby Rays. Never heard of it before but going to look tomorrow. If I can’t find the original, I’ll try your version but would be nice to compare. From the other blogs, yours sounds better. Shall let you know in 2 days time. The strange thing is that the recipe I found adds 2 tsp Worcestershire & 1 tsp vinegar to the Sweet Baby Rays. Hardly seems worth it since your recipe already has those. Thank you so much for your research.
I hope mine is a winner for you!! Can’t wait to hear!
Tieghan, WOW!!! I couldn’t find the original SBRays so I cooked your version. WOW!!! Admittedly I added some chilli flakes as I like it HOT and it was perfect. The mix of sweet and hot was incredible. You should market it as Sweeter Baby Tiegs Rib Sauce. You’d make a fortune. Thank you SO much.
Yeah!! OS happy you loved you and thanks for trying it!
I only use Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce and I cook on my grill about 5 times a week, next month I have to cook 50 briskets for a party, this recipe will come in handy !!!!!
I forgot to mention that I will need to make about 5 to 10 gallons of sauce, not 2 ½ cups so I will have to do some math and experiment.
Haha! Glad you love this sauce!
Oh wow!! That is a lot of briskets! Hope the sauce works great!
what do you recommend storing this in??
Anything you have would be fine. A bowl, a glass or plastic storage container or if you have them I really like using a ball or canning jar. Hope this helps and I hope you love the BBQ sauce!
This is so good! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe! I’m making a second batch now!
Of course! Thank you for making it! So happy you love the sauce!
need to know if this recipe can be canned.. please advise…thanx
I have personally never done it, but I see no reason why it can not be canned. Hope you love this!
Any luck with canning?
I still have not tried canning this. Sorry!
This sounds really good. I’d probably add just a touch of liquid smoke, just a tiny bit because it takes over fast.
Sounds good! Thank you, Kathy!