Thanksgiving can be chaotic and unpredictable, but there's one thing that's sure to stay true: there's always room for dessert. I've compiled a list of the best Thanksgiving desserts, ranging from pies to cakes to cookies, as well as a few savory bakes! There's truly something here for everyone.
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Thanksgiving Pie Recipes
3 Ingredient All Butter Pie Crust
This 3 ingredient all butter pie crust is made with just a few pantry staples and requires no specialty equipment. It's tender, flaky texture and buttery flavor make it the perfect vessel for just about any pie filling!
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Apple Cranberry Pie
If you're someone who likes to go out ALL OUT on Thanksgiving, then this apple cranberry pie is for you! This isn't an ordinary apple pie. It's packed full of warm & cozy spices, juicy apples, tart cranberries, and even a touch of orange zest to round it all out.
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Pumpkin Pie with Graham Cracker Crust
Minimize the Thanksgiving Day chaos by making this pumpkin pie with graham cracker crust ahead of time! The crust and filling each come together in a flash, and once it's baked and chilled overnight, it's ready to be served after the feast. The smooth, creamy pumpkin filling and buttery graham cracker crust are best topped with a dollop of whipped cream!
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Dark Chocolate Chess Pie
Pumpkin haters, this dark chocolate chess pie is the perfect Thanksgiving dessert for you! My homemade all butter pie crust is the most delicious vessel for a creamy, custardy dark chocolate filling.
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Turtle Pecan Pie
This turtle pecan pie is made with a buttery, flaky pie crust and a gooey, chocolatey, sweet caramel filling with just the right amount of toasted pecans!
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Black Bottom Pumpkin Custard Pie
This black bottom pumpkin custard pie is the quintessential fall pie with a unique twist! Layered under the creamy pumpkin filling is a rich ganache!
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Salted Caramel Apple Pie
This salted caramel apple pie is arguably the best apple pie to ever exist! It's made with an all-butter pie crust, juicy fresh apples, and rich salted caramel sauce.
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Balsamic Molasses Pear Galette
This balsamic molasses pear galette is made with an all-butter, flaky pie crust and balsamic molasses soaked pears topped with spiced sugar!
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Turtle Pecan Pie Brownies
These turtle pecan pie brownies are an easier (and more decadent!) alternative to regular pie. The three layers consist of a buttery shortbread crust, rich brownie center, and gooey pecan pie topping loaded with caramel sauce and chocolate!
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No Bake Chocolate Mousse Pie
This no bake chocolate mousse pie has a buttery Oreo crust, silky smooth chocolate filling, and a heaping pile of freshly whipped cream. No need to turn your oven on to make a decadent & impressive dessert!
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Maple Pumpkin Hand Pies
These maple pumpkin hand pies are made with a homemade buttery pie crust and filled with Stonewall Kitchen's delicious maple pumpkin butter!
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Apple Frangipane Tart
This apple frangipane tart is made with a simple, buttery shortcrust pastry, soft almond frangipane filling, juicy apples, and a generous dusting of powdered sugar. The thinly cut apples beautifully arranged on top of the almond cream filling make it an easy, yet impressive dessert everyone will love.
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Brûléed Lemon Chess Pie
This brûléed lemon chess pie is like a lemon bar in pie form! The creamy tart lemon filling contrasted with the buttery pie crust and burnt sugar topping is truly irresistible.
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Pecan Brownie Pie
This pecan brownie pie is exactly what it sounds like - a thick, fudgy brownie with pecans baked in a flaky, buttery pie crust!
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Thanksgiving Cake Recipes
Apple Cider Bundt Cake
This apple cider donut bundt cake is everything you love about baked apple cider donuts, but in bundt form! It's ultra soft & moist with an unmistakable apple cider flavor.
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Brown Sugar Chai Cake
This brown sugar chai cake consists of two moist cake layers filled with warm & cozy spices that are wrapped up in a sweet, yet tangy cream cheese frosting. It's a simple festive cake that's sure to impress and feed a crowd!
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Salted Caramel Apple Cupcakes
These salted caramel apple cupcakes consist of a brown butter apple cake, a luscious caramel cream cheese frosting, and a generous drizzle of salted brown butter caramel sauce! How could you say no to this combination of brown butter, salted caramel, cream cheese, and juicy apples?!
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Chocolate Swiss Roll
This show-stopping chocolate swiss roll is just as decadent as it is beautiful. The fluffy & delicate chocolate sponge is rolled up with a light mascarpone cream filling, then it's all topped off with a rich chocolate ganache. This cake is sure to impress at your next dinner party!
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Chocolate Tiramisu Cake
This chocolate tiramisu cake consists of four layers of chocolate sponge soaked in rum & coffee, alternated with a creamy mascarpone filling.
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Caramel Apple Skillet Dump Cake
This caramel apple dump cake is made with a spiced brown sugar cake, honeycrisp apples, and homemade caramel sauce all in one skillet!
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Mini Carrot Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
This moist mini carrot cake recipe makes two 6-inch layers decorated with a swoon-worthy brown butter cream cheese frosting!
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Apple Streusel Coffee Cake
This apple streusel coffee cake is made with fresh apples baked right into the cake, a gooey cinnamon swirl center, and a sweet & crunchy streusel topping.
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Thanksgiving Cookie Recipes
Brown Butter Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
Brown butter pumpkin snickerdoodles are a fall favorite, and for good reason! They're packed with pumpkin flavor while still having that signature pillowy, melt-in-your-mouth snickerdoodle texture.
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Fudgy Mocha Brownie Cookies
These fudgy mocha brownie cookies are rich, decadent, and perfect for when you can't decide between a brownie and a cookie!
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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies
Soft & thick cookie lovers will be obsessed with these brown butter chocolate chip pecan cookies! They're studded with toasted pecans and melted pools of dark chocolate, which adds a gooey element that's essential to every good cookie! The extra step of browning the butter adds a new depth of flavor that is truly unmatched.
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Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies
These rich espresso chocolate chip cookies are a coffee lover's dream! Imagine a warm cookie with buttery, crisp edges surrounding a soft center packed with a deep coffee flavor and pools of melted, gooey chocolate.
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Spiced Apple Pie Cookies
These apple pie cookies are made with a spiced cookie dough, crisp apple pieces, and flaky pie crust leaves. They really are an apple pie in cookie form!
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Brown Butter Snickerdoodles (Without Cream of Tartar)
These brown butter snickerdoodles without cream of tartar are just as soft & fluffy as the traditional version, but with so much more flavor!
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Brown Butter Milk Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies
These toffee cookies are loaded with rich brown butter and sweet milk chocolate chunks. The thick & soft centers contrasted with the gooey chocolate and snappy toffee pieces make these cookies truly irresistible!
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Soft Brown Butter Molasses Cookies
These soft brown butter molasses cookies are soft in the center with crisp, chewy edges, and full of brown butter and molasses flavors!
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Thanksgiving Macaron Recipes
Chai Macarons
These chai macarons are made with comforting, warm fall spices and filled with a silky smooth cardamom swiss meringue buttercream.
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Apple Butter Macarons
These apple butter macarons consist of chewy cinnamon shells and a creamy apple butter French buttercream. The warm spices married with the slow cooked apple butter make these delicate cookies the epitome of fall!
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Pumpkin Macarons
These vanilla bean macarons with pumpkin spice swiss meringue buttercream are every pumpkin lovers dream!
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Salted Caramel Macarons
These salted caramel macarons are made with brown sugar shells, caramel swiss meringue buttercream, and a drizzle of salted caramel sauce!
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Coffee Macarons
These coffee macarons are made with chewy espresso shells and filled with a creamy espresso french buttercream. They're truly every coffee lovers dream!
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Thanksgiving Sweet & Savory Bread Recipes
Brown Butter Pumpkin Bread
This brown butter pumpkin bread will be your new favorite fall recipe! It's incredibly soft, filled with sweet pumpkin purée, warm pumpkin spice, and rich, nutty brown butter.
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Mini Cinnamon Rolls with Heavy Cream
These mini cinnamon rolls with heavy cream make any breakfast or brunch that much more special! When baked in heavy cream, the brioche soaks it up and transforms into the softest, most plush cinnamon rolls. Their miniature size makes them so cute and perfect to feed a crowd!
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Garlic Herb Parker House Rolls
A dinner party is never complete without Parker house rolls! My version is made up of a buttery, pillowy soft dough speckled with fresh herbs and garlicky goodness. When topped with melted butter and flaky sea salt, they're absolutely addicting!
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Boozy Bourbon Apple Fritters
While some fritter donuts are made with a thin, cake-like batter, these bakery-style apple fritters are made with brioche and a pre-cooked apple filling. The spiced apples tucked away into a pillowy soft dough create an irresistible, bourbon apple pie situation in donut form!
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Gluten Free Pumpkin Oatmeal Muffins
These gluten free pumpkin oatmeal muffins are the perfect simple breakfast filled with cozy autumn flavors!
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Brown Butter Banana Bread
This brown butter banana bread is so soft and moist with the most comforting flavor. Spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg and leveled up with toasted butter, this banana bread is bound to be your new go-to recipe!
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Maple Chai Sticky Buns
Sticky buns take on a whole new level of fall coziness with the pairing of maple & chai! They're made with an impossibly soft milk bread dough, filled with warm chai spices, and baked in a maple brown sugar goo. As they bake and then cool, the goo turns into a thick caramel-like sauce, giving them their signature sticky effect!
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Salted Honey Milk Bread Rolls
These salted honey milk bread rolls are impossibly soft & pillowy, and so easy to make! They're the perfect addition to any special dinner.
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Soft Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels
There's nothing quite like homemade soft cinnamon sugar pretzels freshly baked and warm from the oven! The chewy outside covered in a spiced, sweet coating contrasted with the plush interior makes them the most addicting fall baked good.
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Brown Butter Cardamom Cinnamon Rolls
Warm & gooey brown butter cardamom cinnamon rolls smothered with a sweet cream cheese icing - the best Sunday morning breakfast!
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Old Fashioned Apple Cider Donuts
When you close your eyes and take a bite out of one of these old fashioned apple cider donuts, you’ll wake up wearing a cozy sweater, standing in the middle of an apple orchard, with golden leaves all around you. Yes, they’re that good. Made with an apple cider cake dough and covered in an apple cider glaze & cinnamon sugar coating, these donuts truly are the essence of fall!
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Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting
This pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting is the most comforting fall treat! It's moist crumb and warm spices feel like a cozy hug with each and every bite.
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Salted Soft Pretzels with Cheese Dip
These salted soft pretzels are made with a super simple 6 ingredient dough and bake up chewy on the outside & soft on the inside.
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Cinnamon Sugar Brioche Donuts
These cinnamon sugar brioche donuts are made with an enriched dough that's fried to soft, pillowy perfection, then tossed in a generous coating of cinnamon sugar. Once you whip up a baker's dozen of these classic donuts from scratch and taste how incredible they are, you'll never buy them from a bakery again!
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Cinnamon Rolls with Apple Pie Filling
These cinnamon rolls with apple pie filling are made with a soft & fluffy brioche, gooey cinnamon sugar filling, and spiced honeycrisp apples!
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