These blueberry dessert recipes include a glazed loaf cake, an upside-down cake, frosted layers, cheesecake, crumb bars and a spoonable cobbler. Lemon appears in several of the choices, while fudge and a yeast-raised babka offer two different ways to use a blueberry filling.
Check whether the recipe calls for fresh berries, frozen fruit or prepared pie filling. The babka specifies fresh blueberries and needs two rises. The dump cake is a layered fruit-and-cake-mix dessert with cream cheese, rather than a traditional sliced cheesecake.
Blueberry Dessert Recipes for Cakes
Choose a loaf, an inverted fruit topping or a frosted layer cake.
1. Blueberry Lemon Pound Cake with Yogurt and Lemon Glaze
Blueberries are folded into a yogurt-and-lemon loaf cake before baking. A separate lemon glaze is added only when the loaf has cooled fully.
2. Blueberry Lemon Upside-Down Cake with a Buttery Crumb
Blueberries sit over a lemon butter-sugar mixture beneath the batter. Careful inversion after the initial cooling stage reveals the fruit at the top.
3. Lemon Blueberry Cake
Fresh blueberries are folded into a lemon and buttermilk batter for three layers. Lemon cream cheese frosting joins the cooled cakes before a crumb-coat chill and final finish.
Blueberry Cheesecakes and Bars
Cream cheese appears in these three desserts, each with a different base and serving style.
4. Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake with a Fresh Berry Sauce
A baked lemon cheesecake contains fresh blueberries and comes with a separate cooked berry sauce. Plan both the water-bath baking and the long cooling schedule.
5. Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Dump Cake
Prepared blueberry filling is layered with lemon cream cheese, dry cake mix and melted butter. This is a scoopable dump cake with a cheesecake-style component, not an unmolded cheesecake.
6. Blueberry Lemon Pie Bars
Blueberries fill a lemon cream cheese layer between a pre-baked base and reserved crumb dough. Cool and chill before lifting the square slab from the pan.
Blueberry Cobbler, Fudge and Babka
These recipes use browned-butter batter, chilled fudge or filled yeast dough.
7. Blueberry Cobbler
Browned butter flavors a pourable cobbler batter with sugared blueberries spooned over it. Leave the layers unstirred and let the baked dish rest before serving.
8. Blueberry Fudge
Cooked, cooled blueberry puree is divided between a white chocolate fudge base and a surface swirl. The slab is refrigerated until firm before small squares are cut.
9. Lemon Blueberry Babka with Crumble and Lemon Icing
A blueberry reduction fills a lemon-scented yeast dough that is twisted into a loaf. Crumble and lemon icing finish the babka after its rises and bake.
Before You Choose Your Recipe
Keep separate berry measures for cake filling, sauce and topping where the recipe lists them. Test baked batter away from a wet fruit pocket and let creamy desserts chill before cutting. Choose the cobbler or dump cake when spooned portions fit your dessert plan.
