Juicy blueberries bring their natural sweetness to this quick and easy blueberry sauce topping. This makes for a delicious finishing touch on so many different desserts like cheesecake and ice cream, and turns simple breakfast foods like whole wheat pancakes, oatmeal, and yogurt into something special. You need just 6 ingredients (including water!), and you can use either fresh or frozen blueberries.
Don’t you just love a versatile berry sauce topping, that’s as welcome on the breakfast table as it is on a dessert? A topping always takes desserts to the next level, both in terms of flavor and in presentation for serving. I have raspberry dessert sauce and strawberry sauce topping… so clearly it’s about time we invite blueberries to the party.
This recipe is very similar to the topping I use on blueberry cream cheese pie, but, well, saucier. For that pie topping, you want a thicker, jammier topping that sets up enough to stay together when you slice into the pie.
For this blueberry sauce topping, you want to be able to spoon or pour it on top of a slice of lemon cheesecake, or a dish of ice cream (maybe even blueberry crumble ice cream!). It also tastes phenomenal on pancakes & waffles, stirred into yogurt, and spooned over cream cheese French toast casserole. To sum up: blueberry sauce is limitless.
Have you ever made my blueberry swirl cheesecake? Today’s topping is a bit saucier than what you use for that cheesecake. Nearly identical taste, though.
You’ll cook the mixture down on the stove. Warm the blueberries and sugar together first, and make sure you’re mashing some of the blueberries with your spoon or silicone spatula as it heats. This is especially important if using fresh blueberries. With frozen berries, you won’t need to break them down quite as much because the thawing liquid is there to help.
The mixture thickens as it cools. Off heat, it’s warm and drippy. After cooling and refrigerating, it thickens into a thin preserves-like consistency. If desired, you can reheat the blueberry sauce topping to thin it out.
I love it warm on ice cream:
On its own, blueberry sauce is a naturally gluten free dessert recipe. You can also serve it with any of the following treats (some of which are also GF!):
Can I bake this in desserts? Yes, you can bake this in desserts. For example, you can swap the raspberry swirl in these white chocolate raspberry cheesecake bars with this blueberry sauce (no need to strain, just swirl the chunky sauce into the cheesecake filling). You could also skip the apples in this apple crumb cake and add a layer of blueberry sauce under the crumb topping; and swap in blueberry sauce for the jam in these raspberry streusel bars and this raspberry twist bread.
And here is even more inspiration for dessert recipes that use blueberries.
This blueberry sauce topping comes together quickly and easily on the stove, and can be enjoyed warm or cold on many desserts and breakfast foods. You can use fresh or frozen blueberries.
