Maple Blueberry Parfait
A delightful layered dessert featuring fresh blueberries cooked in maple syrup, whipped cream, and crumbled ginger cookies. This elegant parfait combines the natural sweetness of blueberries with rich maple flavor and a spicy cookie crunch.
Ingredients
- •3½ cups blueberries
- •¾ cup pure maple syrup
- •1 cup chilled heavy cream
- •1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- •6 ounces thin ginger cookies
- •coarsely crumbled
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Cook 2 1/4 cups (3/4 pound) blueberries with 1/2 cup maple syrup in a 2-quart heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until blueberries have burst, 3 to 8 minutes. Cool in an ice bath, stirring occasionally.
8 min
- 2.
While blueberry mixture cools, beat cream with remaining 1/4 cup maple syrup in a bowl using an electric mixer until it just holds stiff peaks.
5 min
- 3.
Stir lemon juice and remaining 1 1/4 cups blueberries into cooled blueberry-maple mixture.
2 min
- 4.
Spoon about 2 tablespoons blueberry mixture into each of 6 glasses and top with half of crumbled cookies and half of whipped cream. Repeat layering of remaining blueberry mixture, crumbled cookies, and whipped cream.
10 min
- 5.
Serve parfaits immediately.
1 min
