10 Blueberry Desserts to Put on Your Must-Make List

Blueberry Jam Cake

One of our most popular blueberry dessert recipes is our Blueberry Jam Cake. This stunning layer cake has a homemade blueberry jam filling that is made by processing fresh blueberries with jam and pectin and then simmering the mixture on the stove until thickened. A little lemon juice stirred in at the end adds some acidity to counter the sweetness. 

Most of the jam is layered between white cake rounds, and a little is reserved to color and flavor the cream cheese frosting. By dividing the frosting into three bowls and adding different amounts of jam to each, you create different shades of purple, which allows the cake to be frosted with an ombré effect (gradient shades of color). This showstopper is perfect for any summer gathering.

Home cooks give it rave reviews in the comments. Here is just a sampling.

Kyle J said “Best ATK cake I've made so far. So, so good.”

Lanny W said “OMG, this was great! Everyone raved about this cake. Thank you!”

Jamie M said “Delicious cake and easy frosting. Can’t wait to make this again!”

Blueberry Cornbread

A cozy recipe that works for breakfast or dessert is our Blueberry Cornbread. This sweet cornbread is chock-full of blueberries ( a full 2 cups!) and is a great way to take cornbread from everyday to special-occasion fare. And just to make sure it really satisfies, we recommend serving it with our Honey Butter, which we make by simply stirring honey and salt into softened butter. (There’s a pinch of cayenne, too, for balance.)

Blueberry Boy Bait

Blueberry Boy Bait has an odd name, but there’s a story behind it. The story goes that the girl who created it said that boys found the dessert irresistible. And it’s not hard to imagine why . . . this blueberry treat is like a buttery coffee cake, studded with plenty of blueberries, and topped with cinnamon sugar instead of streusel. As the cake bakes, the cinnamon sugar topping becomes crisp and crackly. We’re sure that anyone you serve it to will find it irresistible too!

Mixed Berry Buckle

Our Mixed Berry Buckle is a great way to showcase all kinds of summer berries, but you can also just make it with all blueberries. A buckle is a dessert that’s made with a thick cake batter, lots of fruit, and a crunchy streusel topping. Because the cake is so dense and buttery, the berries stay suspended in it rather than sinking to the bottom. Try it with our Malted Milk Whipped Cream to dress it up.

Blueberry Cream Pie

A traditional double-crust blueberry pie is nice, but if you really want to wow your guests on a summer evening, then it’s our Blueberry Cream Pie you’re looking for. This easy pie starts with a sweet, crisp graham cracker crust. The filling celebrates fresh blueberries, highlighting their flavor by cooking some of them down into a puree and stirring the rest in whole for juicy pops throughout the pie. Whipped cream fortified with cream cheese makes for a topping that holds up well. And adding a little of the blueberry puree to the piping bag with the topping is the perfect way to create blueberry-streaked swirls on top of the pie.

Easy Apricot and Blueberry Tart

Our Easy Apricot and Blueberry Tart is rustic but beautiful in its simplicity. The tart dough comes together quickly in the food processor, and after a chill to firm it up, you simply roll it out into a large circle. Then you’ll toss sliced apricots, a whole cup of blueberries, and a little sugar together and pile the mixture in the middle of the dough round. Fold the dough up around the fruit, pleating it as you go, and then pop the whole thing into the oven to bake. There’s something so pleasing (and so summery!) about the contrast of the blueberries against the orange apricots. And the sweet blueberries complement the slight tartness of the apricots too.

Summer Blueberry Cobbler

One of the easiest blueberry desserts to whip up is a Summer Blueberry Cobbler. It’s also one of the most homey and comforting blueberry desserts you can make. For ours, we combined blueberries with cornstarch (for thickening), sugar, lemon zest and juice, and a little salt and then cooked the filling. 

The biscuit dough is simple to stir together and has a bit of buttermilk for tang and lots of butter for richness. We dolloped the dough on top of the hot blueberry filling, sprinkled the mounds with sugar, and then baked it all until we had golden-brown biscuits over bubbling blueberry juices. A scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side just screams summer.

Texas-Style Blueberry Cobbler

Texas-Style Blueberry Cobbler is nothing like a traditional cobbler, such as the one above with biscuits baked over a blueberry filling. A Texas-style blueberry cobbler is made with a thick batter similar to pancake batter, and the fruit actually goes on top instead of underneath. We pour the batter into a baking dish and then mash the blueberries with a mixture of sugar and lemon zest. Then we dollop the mashed blueberries on top and sprinkle on a little more of the lemon sugar before baking the whole thing. As the cobbler bakes, the batter puffs up and the fruit sinks in, so there are jammy pockets of fruit throughout.

Lazy Blueberry Sonker

Well-known in Surry County, North Carolina, sonker is a dessert that falls somewhere between a pie and a cobbler. It is a deep dish of stewy cooked fruit, topped with a crisp cake. We call ours Lazy Blueberry Sonker because it doesn’t take much effort at all to make it. To make it, you just toss the blueberries with sugar, salt, water, and cornstarch and then bake them until bubbling. Then you make the simple cake batter, pour it over top, and return the dish to the oven until the top is golden brown. Just another great way to combine warm blueberries and buttery cake!

Blueberry Grunt

Last but not least is our Blueberry Grunt, which doesn’t really sound like a food at all, but it is. A grunt is fruit cooked on the stovetop under dumpling dough. It’s perfect if you are looking for something cobbler-like but don’t want to turn on your oven. For a juicy fruit mixture, we cook down half the blueberries and then stir the rest in. Then we mix up the dumpling dough and use an ice cream scoop to spoon it over the warm blueberries. To cook the dumplings, we cover the pot and simmer the whole thing until they are puffy and then we sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on top. So warm. So comforting.

These blueberry desserts are sure to sweeten your summer and impress family and friends. Which one will you try first?