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
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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. ā¤ļø
Let’s Chat About What To Put This Sauce On
Top Ten Friends for Easy Homemade Blueberry Sauce:
- Swedish pancakes.
- Greek yogurt.
- Crackers.
- Ice cream.
- Toast.
- Pie crust.
- Oats.
- Bananas.
- Cottage cheese.
- Muffins.
I’m in love.
I didn’t plan to fall in love this way.
I was actually hoping for Bjork to fall in love with this homemade blueberry sauce as it dripped off of a stack of Sunday morning Swedish pancakes. But I fell for my own trick, and now my lips are stained purple and I can’t stop drowning foods in blueberry sauce.
As you maybe noticed from the list of top ten friends for homemade blueberry sauce, I’ve gotten really creative in the last 24 hours. Chances are good that I’m going to turn into a Willy Wonka blueberry any minute now. It was all worth it.
Love is a beautiful thing.
So obviously you’re having brinner for dinner tonight. Because you’re awesome.
And I’m having brinner all week. Because I’m obsessed.
Easy Homemade Blueberry Sauce: FAQs
Can I freeze leftovers of this sauce?
Sure can…if you even have leftovers!
Would this be good on cheesecake?
Ummm it would be AMAZING on cheesecake!
Can I make this sauce with another kind of berry?
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
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- 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
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November 14, 2011
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Damnā¦that looks awesome!! I love how thick it is!!
That looks delicious! Do you have a swedish pancake recipe? Tried looking online, but couldnāt 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 agoā¦definitely going to use them for this!
Perfect! Thatās exactly what I used, too (organic frozen).
Can this be made with Splenda instead of sugar?
As I am diabetic I routinely sub SplendaĀ® 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 wellā¦
We havenāt tested that out yet, but itās 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! š
That blueberry sauce looks so gloriously glazed and chunky. But to tell you the truth, Iām crushing on the edges of those Swedish pancakes!
Yes, the Swedish pancakes were rockin, too. But Iām saving that for another time! š
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 donāt even love blueberries so much but somehow I do love this sauce! A lot!
Using this recipe for our churches pancake supper on Shrove Tuesdayā¦. 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 š
Yep, definitely ok to eat plain. š
This looks amazing! My son LOVES blueberries so he will enjoy this. I like to buy frozen organic blueberries because theyāre a little cheaper than fresh ones so itās 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 itās a MN thingā¦or maybe rural east central MN thing. š Looks so good!
I love that you knew they were Swedish pancakes š
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!
Weād guess it makes about 3-4 cups.
You are totally a brinner enabler right now. But ohhhh man this looks so yummy!!
Iām honored to be the brinner enabler in your life. š
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 bowlā¦?
Hello, do you even know me? Of course itās 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 ā yours looks GORGEOUS!
Itās also good with cake š thatās ok for breakfast too right?
MMm with cake! Love that idea.
Iām 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 canāt even imagine.
I love that you can use frozen berries with this! I have to admit though ā those pancakes are what caught my eye!! They look YUMMY! š
The pancake recipe is on the queue for another day. š 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 havenāt tried freezing this yet, but we think it should work just fine.
Oompa Loompa doompety doo
Thanks for that.
Just made this for some pancakes ā itās so delicious! We added some cubes of salted butter to top it all off. Great recipe! š
Weāve put the rest in a big jar for later ā with a fancy ribbon, something like would make a great present!
Awesome! Iām glad you liked it. š
Youāre right! Simple, quick, homemade and YUM!
Thanks for the recipe! I have made a simple blueberry sauce before but never followed a recipe š I am making this tomorrow to go on my pancakes! My boyfriend loves blueberry sauce and it is our one year anniversary tomorrow š