Juicy blueberries deliver their pure sweetness to this fast and straightforward blueberry sauce topping. This makes for a scrumptious final touch on so many various desserts like cheesecake and ice cream, and turns easy breakfast meals like entire wheat pancakes, oatmeal, and yogurt into one thing particular. You want simply 6 elements (together with water!) and you should utilize both recent or frozen blueberries.
Don’t you simply love a flexible berry sauce topping, that’s as welcome on the breakfast desk as it’s on a dessert? A topping all the time takes desserts to the following stage, each when it comes to taste and in presentation for serving. I’ve raspberry dessert sauce and strawberry sauce topping… so clearly it’s about time we invite blueberries to the get together.
This recipe is similar to the topping I exploit on blueberry cream cheese pie, however, properly, saucier. For that pie topping, you need a thicker, jammier topping that units up sufficient to remain collectively whenever you slice into the pie.
For this blueberry sauce topping, you need to have the ability to spoon or pour it on high of a slice of lemon cheesecake, or a dish of ice cream (possibly even blueberry crumble ice cream!). It additionally tastes phenomenal on pancakes & waffles, stirred into yogurt, and spooned over cream cheese French toast casserole. To sum up: blueberry sauce is limitless.
Why You’ll Love This Straightforward Blueberry Topping
- Make it with both recent or frozen blueberries
- Comes collectively on the range in lower than 10 minutes
- Naturally candy from the berries—add simply 2 Tablespoons of sugar
- So versatile—scrumptious on so many desserts and even breakfast meals
- Serve heat, chilly, or room temperature—your selection!
- Freezes properly, so nice make-ahead recipe
Have you ever ever made my blueberry swirl cheesecake? Immediately’s topping is a bit saucier than what you utilize for that cheesecake. Practically similar style although.
Seize These 6 Substances:
- Water: I exploit extra water on this sauce than in comparable recipes on my web site as a result of blueberries don’t actually break down as a lot as, say, raspberries. We wish this to be a pourable/spoonable consistency proper off warmth.
- Cornstarch: This ingredient barely thickens the sauce. You don’t want a lot, however you will need to mix it with a bit liquid earlier than including to the berries, in any other case you’ll have lumps of powdery cornstarch in your completed sauce. Cornstarch is usually combined with water to make a “slurry” earlier than utilizing in sauces; see strawberry sauce for example.
- Lemon Juice: The sauce wants *one thing* to stability the berry and sugar, and lemon juice offers that trace of brightness. Don’t depart it out, or the flavour will fall flat.
- Contemporary or Frozen Blueberries: Blueberries are so handy—no peeling, pitting, or chopping required! (That’s why blueberry pie is my #1 selection for a summer time pie.) After they’re not in season, be happy to make use of frozen blueberries. If utilizing frozen, you don’t have to stir/mash the combination as a lot as a result of the blueberries break down simpler.
- Sugar: As a result of blueberries are so naturally candy, you solely want a bit sugar to sweeten this sauce—simply 2 Tablespoons.
- Vanilla Extract: Stir in a small splash of vanilla as soon as the sauce comes off the warmth. Vanilla provides the sauce dessert vibes. 😉
Tips on how to Make It
You’ll prepare dinner the combination down on the range. Heat the blueberries and sugar collectively first, and be sure you’re mashing a number of the blueberries along with your spoon or silicone spatula because it heats. That is particularly essential if utilizing recent blueberries. With frozen berries, you gained’t want to interrupt them down fairly as a lot as a result of the thawing liquid is there to assist.
You’re answerable for the thickness and consistency of this blueberry sauce topping—all of it comes all the way down to what number of blueberries you mash whereas the combination cooks.
After 3 minutes, stir in a cornstarch “slurry” constructed from your cornstarch, water, and lemon juice. Let that prepare dinner and thicken for a couple of minutes earlier than eradicating from warmth. Then stir within the vanilla.
You’re completed!
The combination thickens because it cools. Off warmth, it’s heat and drippy. After cooling and refrigerating, it thickens into a skinny jam-like consistency. If desired, you may reheat the blueberry sauce topping to skinny it out.
I like it heat on ice cream:
Can This Be a Filling for a Layer Cake?
Not as written, no. I haven’t efficiently examined a thicker cake filling model of this but, nevertheless you possibly can attempt decreasing the water and growing the cornstarch a bit. Or attempt my raspberry cake filling as an alternative.
It may work as a cupcake filling, although!
Makes use of for Blueberry Sauce Topping
- Your favourite vanilla ice cream, or this no-churn blueberry crumble ice cream
- Topping on pavlova and no-bake cheesecake jars
- Filling for home made crepes
- Use because the jam in these breakfast Danish pastries or the filling in these berry turnovers
- Pancakes & waffles, equivalent to these buttermilk waffles, entire wheat pancakes, and Greek yogurt lemon poppy seed pancakes
- Lemon cheesecake, plain cheesecake, lemon blueberry cheesecake bars, or simple cheesecake pie
- Stir into oatmeal or yogurt
- French toast: mini French toast bites, cream cheese French toast casserole or blueberry French toast casserole
- Topping on lemon pudding desserts
- Spooned on slices of white cake, pistachio cake, cream cheese pound cake, or recent berry cream cake
- Swap out the recent fruit topping on fruit pizza and spoon this over the cream cheese frosting as an alternative
- Topping on goat cheese crostini
- Use it as an alternative of strawberry compote on brown butter pound cake
Can I bake this in desserts? Sure, you may bake this in desserts. For instance, you may swap the raspberry swirl in these white chocolate raspberry cheesecake bars with this blueberry sauce (no have to pressure, simply swirl the chunky sauce into the cheesecake filling). You could possibly additionally skip the apples on this apple crumb cake and add a layer of right now’s sauce beneath the crumb topping, and swap in right now’s sauce for the jam in these raspberry streusel bars and this raspberry twist bread.
Blueberry Sauce Topping
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Prepare dinner Time: 6 minutes
Complete Time: 16 minutes
Yield: about 1 and 1/4 cups
Class: Dessert
Technique: Cooking
Delicacies: American
Description
This blueberry sauce topping comes collectively rapidly and simply on the range, and might be loved heat or chilly on many desserts and breakfast meals. You should use recent or frozen blueberries.
Directions
- Whisk the cornstarch, water, and lemon juice collectively till all of the cornstarch has dissolved. (I simply use a fork to combine—very simple.) Put aside.
- Heat the blueberries and sugar collectively in a small saucepan over medium warmth. With a wood spoon or sturdy silicone spatula, stir constantly for 3 minutes, gently smashing the berries towards the edges of the pan to assist them launch some juices. (Should you used frozen blueberries, you gained’t have to smash them as a lot as a result of they are going to naturally break down as they thaw over warmth.) After 3 minutes, add the cornstarch combination and proceed to stir for an additional 2–3 minutes, smashing extra berries if wanted. The combination will begin to thicken.
- Take away from warmth and stir within the vanilla. Enable to chill. The combination is liquid and drippy, however thickens significantly because it cools.
- You’ll be able to serve the sauce heat earlier than it cools utterly if desired, or retailer within the fridge for as much as 1 week. Blueberry topping might be thick after refrigeration, so microwave for 15 seconds or heat on the range to skinny out, if desired.
Notes
- Freezing Directions: After the blueberry sauce cools utterly, freeze in a freezer-friendly container for as much as 3–6 months. Thaw on the counter or within the fridge. Heat up within the microwave or on the range, if desired.
- Different berries: I like to recommend my raspberry sauce and strawberry sauce recipes as an alternative.
- Lemon: Lemon brightens the flavour. You want 1 Tablespoon (15ml) of recent lemon juice.
- Chunks: The quantity of blueberry chunks is as much as you. For much less chunks, smash the berries a bit extra because the sauce cooks. For no blueberry chunks, mix the completed sauce in a blender till you attain your required consistency.
Key phrases: blueberry sauce topping
