This easy blueberry sauce is made with fresh blueberries, sugar, vanilla, and corn starch. Thick, sweet, and perfect for topping pancakes.
Easy Homemade Blueberry Sauce
Why have breakfast for breakfast when you can have breakfast for dinner? And lunch. And snack. And okay fine also breakfast.
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This is very easy to make and tastes yummy. Everyone loves and prefers this tasty recipe over syrup for our pancakes. ❤️
Because this sweet, chunky, glazey, drippy blueberry sauce is basically screaming to be drizzled over some light fluffy pancakes or golden crisp waffles right now. But we want to be honest, we drizzle it over everything over here. Ice cream, check. Greek yogurt, uh huh. Crackers, pie crust, a bowl of cottage cheese, oatmeal, toast, rounding out your charcuterie board…watch out!
Drizzled over a beautiful grilled flank steak or pork loin?! We don’t know, probably! Someone try!
So I guess more specifically, why limit this super easy, super delectable blueberry sauce to just breakfast when you could have it on everything. All day long. Everything all day blueberry sauce, yes and yes.
In This Post: Everything You Need For Easy Homemade Blueberry Sauce
- Watch How to Make Blueberry Sauce
- Ingredients for This Blueberry Sauce Recipes
- How to Make Homemade Blueberry Sauce
- What to Put This Sauce On
- Easy Homemade Blueberry Sauce: Frequently Asked Questions
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Ingredients For This Blueberry Sauce Recipe
The list is so very short and simple to make this dream a reality, so get all your drizzle plans ready.
- blueberries (fresh or frozen!)
- sugar
- cornstarch
- vanilla
- water
That’s it! Go! Grab them!
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How To Make Homemade Blueberry Sauce
Now that you’ve rifled through your freezer and pantry like a wild person, your next question is assuredly, “Okay, how?!” So easy. Let’s do this.
- Place half the blueberries in a small saucepan and cover with water, add sugar and vanilla. Let the mixture come to a low boil over medium heat and the blueberries just start to break apart.
- Add in dissolved cornstarch and bring mixture to a rolling boil. Let it simmer on low for a bit until you reach your ideal consistency. (You can add teensy bits of water if it gets too thick.)
- Remove from heat, transfer to a small bowl, and add the rest of the blueberries! Grab a spoonful of these berries and serve hot or cold on everything forever.
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What To Put This Sauce On
We kind of want to cheat here and just say “What NOT to put this sauce on” and then just leave this section blank.
But seriously, get creative. Get excited. Get it on all the things. Want to try it on these whole grain power pancakes or double up your blueberry joy by drizzling over these fluffiest blueberry pancakes? Over a fresh blueberry peach cake? Maybe on these overnight oats? Maybe on a big ol’ slice of cheesecake? You could also just grab that vanilla ice cream out of your freezer and set yourself up for a real treat. Pretty much all desserts will be singing songs with this sauce piled high on top.
Or make a loaf of no-knead bread, tear off a warm steamy hunk and absolutely douse it in butter and a smear of this sauce. Yes. YES MA’AM.
Very excited for you to have this in your life right now. And do report back if you try that steak thing. Inquiring blueberry sauce lovers are dying to know.
Easy Homemade Blueberry Sauce: Frequently Asked Questions
Sure can…if you even have leftovers!
Ummm it would be AMAZING on cheesecake!
That should work! Strawberries, blackberries, whatever you like.
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Easy Homemade Blueberry Sauce
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
Description
This easy blueberry sauce is made with fresh blueberries, sugar, vanilla, and corn starch. Thick, sweet, and perfect for topping pancakes.
Ingredients
- 3 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch, dissolved into 3 tablespoons water
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Place 1 1/2 cups blueberries in a small saucepan. Cover with water and add sugar and vanilla. Heat over medium-high heat until mixture comes to a low boil and blueberries just start to break apart.
- Add dissolved cornstarch to saucepan and bring mixture to a rolling boil. Turn heat down and simmer on low heat for 2-3 minutes, or until sauce reaches desired consistency. Add water, one tablespoon at a time, if the sauce gets too thick.
- Remove from heat. Add remaining blueberries and stir gently. Serve warm or cold.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Sauce
- Method: Boil
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: blueberry sauce, blueberries, pancake sauce, fruit sauce
Damn…that looks awesome!! I love how thick it is!!
That looks delicious! Do you have a swedish pancake recipe? Tried looking online, but couldn’t find anything that looks as tasty as yours.
Thanks!
This looks so delicious! I just picked up some organic frozen blueberries on sale two days ago…definitely going to use them for this!
Perfect! That’s exactly what I used, too (organic frozen).
Can this be made with Splenda instead of sugar?
As I am diabetic I routinely sub Splenda® Sugar Blend for sugar in recipes all the time. For this recipe you would sub 1/4 cup Sugar Blend for 1/2 cup sugar. Works great!
Will this recipe work for frozen strawberries as well…
We haven’t tested that out yet, but it’s worth a shot. Let us know how this goes for you!
Tried it this morning! Delicious and so easy to make!Thank you for sharing!
So glad to hear it! 🙂
That blueberry sauce looks so gloriously glazed and chunky. But to tell you the truth, I’m crushing on the edges of those Swedish pancakes!
Yes, the Swedish pancakes were rockin, too. But I’m saving that for another time! 🙂
Yum! This is exactly how my dad makes his blueberry syrup. We usually top our blueberry pancakes with blueberry syrup and it is soooo good!
Hmmmm, I need to start making pancakes. Just for this sauce.
You need to start immediately.
LOVE blueberries so much! This looks amazingly yummy!
Confession: I don’t even love blueberries so much but somehow I do love this sauce! A lot!
Using this recipe for our churches pancake supper on Shrove Tuesday…. Yum
That just looks so fantastic. Your picture if awesome! Come visit us. We have a terrific mulled cider recipe today.
YUM. Can I come over for breakfast?! I could also see eating this plain 🙂
Yep, definitely ok to eat plain. 🙂
This looks amazing! My son LOVES blueberries so he will enjoy this. I like to buy frozen organic blueberries because they’re a little cheaper than fresh ones so it’s good to see you can use frozen blueberries too.
Same. I am so cheap when it comes to fresh berries. Frozen is a perfect solution!
this is amazing!!!!!!!
I love that you made Swedish pancakes. I swear it’s a MN thing…or maybe rural east central MN thing. 🙂 Looks so good!
I love that you knew they were Swedish pancakes 🙂
Um, just realized that I actually said that they were Swedish pancakes in the post. But still.
This recipe looks delicious and so simple. Would you alter the recipe at all to use as an ice cream topping? How many cups of sauce does the recipe make? Thanks!
We’d guess it makes about 3-4 cups.
You are totally a brinner enabler right now. But ohhhh man this looks so yummy!!
I’m honored to be the brinner enabler in your life. 🙂
Ooh beautiful! I love your list of ideas of what to put it with. Sometimes I wonder, very helpful!
Is it acceptable to just eat it from the bowl…?
Hello, do you even know me? Of course it’s acceptable.
I made almost an identical blueberry recipe for pancakes a couple weeks ago that I still have yet to post!!! We must be on the same wavelength – yours looks GORGEOUS!
It’s also good with cake 🙂 that’s ok for breakfast too right?
MMm with cake! Love that idea.
I’m thinking this would be awesome on my cheesecake and topped with homemade whipped cream!
ummm yes please! this would so be so awesome with blueberry pancakes! i can’t even imagine.
I love that you can use frozen berries with this! I have to admit though – those pancakes are what caught my eye!! They look YUMMY! 🙂
The pancake recipe is on the queue for another day. 🙂 It deserves a day all its own.
This looks ridiculously delish!!!
Oh my, I just want that in front of me RIGHT NOW! Looks incredible!!
Me, too actually! 4:30pm is close enough to dinner time, right?
Can this be frozen once made?
Hi, Hope! We haven’t tried freezing this yet, but we think it should work just fine.
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Thanks for that.
Just made this for some pancakes – it’s so delicious! We added some cubes of salted butter to top it all off. Great recipe! 😀
We’ve put the rest in a big jar for later – with a fancy ribbon, something like would make a great present!
Awesome! I’m glad you liked it. 🙂
You’re right! Simple, quick, homemade and YUM!
Thanks for the recipe! I have made a simple blueberry sauce before but never followed a recipe 🙂 I am making this tomorrow to go on my pancakes! My boyfriend loves blueberry sauce and it is our one year anniversary tomorrow 😀