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35 best thanksgiving desserts

35 Best Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes

By Jenna Barnard

If you're searching for the perfect Thanksgiving dessert recipe, look no further! From classic pecan pie and pumpkin cheesecake to mini pumpkin hand pies and the best spice cake you'll ever have, these crowd-pleasing dessert recipes are guaranteed to end your meal on a sweet note and will have everyone going back for seconds. Top…

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If you’re searching for the perfect Thanksgiving dessert recipe, look no further! From classic pecan pie and pumpkin cheesecake to mini pumpkin hand pies and the best spice cake you’ll ever have, these crowd-pleasing dessert recipes are guaranteed to end your meal on a sweet note and will have everyone going back for seconds.


Top Rated Thanksgiving Desserts


Spice Cake With Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

This extra moist spice cake is perfectly spiced and coated in a silky brown butter cream cheese frosting. It’s sure to become your new favorite fall cake!

5/5 from 70 ratings

Pumpkin Cheesecake

This rich pumpkin cheesecake is super creamy and baked with an entire can of pumpkin puree, warm spices, and a brown butter graham cracker crust.

5/5 from 56 ratings

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

This chocolate peanut butter pie recipe is layered with homemade chocolate pudding, peanut butter mousse, and topped with fluffy whipped cream and a pile of peanut butter cups! The textures are so indulgent but the pie, surprisingly, isn’t overly sweet.

5/5 from 23 ratings

Life Changing Chocolate Pie

This extraordinary chocolate pie will be your new favorite! It’s silky smooth, perfectly rich, and not too sweet. While it also looks impressive, it’s incredibly easy to make. Bring this to your next party and everyone will be asking you for the recipe!

4.9/5 from 26 ratings

Pumpkin Crisp

This pumpkin crisp will give pumpkin pie a run for its money! It’s so easy to make with a creamy pumpkin filling and a toasted brown butter topping. It’s a very unassuming dessert but the flavors and textures are incredible.

5/5 from 10 ratings

No Bake Pumpkin Cookie Pie

This no bake pumpkin pie is made uniquely delicious with layers of gingersnap cookies! Once chilled, the filling softens the cookies for alternating layers of creamy pumpkin pie filling and tender gingersnap cookies in every bite.

5/5 from 5 ratings

Apple Crisp

This is the BEST apple crisp recipe! It’s perfectly spiced with thick slices of tender and jammy apples and extra crisp on top. This recipe is also naturally gluten free using an almond flour and oat crumble. It’s quick, easy, and so delicious!

5/5 from 23 ratings

Pumpkin Pecan Pie Cheesecake

This pumpkin pecan pie cheesecake has absolutely everything you need. Baked all together, it starts with a pecan pie bottom, pumpkin cheesecake filling, and a sweet and tangy vanilla bean sour cream topping. The flavors are so well balanced, providing Thanksgiving decadence in every bite! 

5/5 from 11 ratings

Mini Pumpkin Hand Pies

These mini pumpkin pies are the perfect easy Thanksgiving dessert! They are baked with a cream cheese pumpkin filling and a cinnamon sugar crust. They’re so quick, easy to make, and they’re absolutely adorable!

4.9/5 from 35 ratings

Classic Tiramisu

This incredible tiramisu recipe is a delicious no bake dessert with a silky smooth mascarpone filling and espresso soaked lady fingers. Taking extra care to pick the right ingredients, this tiramisu has the best flavor with a texture that just melts in your mouth.

5/5 from 15 ratings


Thanksgiving Pie Recipes


Candied Pecan Pumpkin Pie

You no longer have to choose between pecan pie and pumpkin pie because this candied pecan pumpkin pie is a magical combination of the two! Rich and creamy pumpkin pie filling is baked with a layer of candied pecans – all atop an incredibly flaky pie crust.

5/5 from 3 ratings

Fudgy Brownie Pie

This is now the ONLY way to eat a brownie! This delicious brownie pie is baked with the most light and flaky pie crust with a thick filling of super fudgy brownie. Pie crust and brownie isn’t a typical combination, but this recipe proves that they are most definitely meant to be together.

5/5 from 3 ratings

No Bake Peanut Butter Pie

This no bake peanut butter pie is light and airy, yet so rich and creamy! The filling has the silkiest consistency, and it’s bursting with lots of peanut butter flavor. A few secret ingredients and essential baking tips make this the most life-changing peanut butter pie you’ll ever have!

5/5 from 10 ratings

Double Chocolate Cream Pie

This incredibly rich chocolate cream pie is made with a chocolate cookie crust, eggless chocolate pudding filling, and a fluffy chocolate mousse mound on top. My friends and family absolutely LOVE this pie and I know yours will too!

5/5 from 4 ratings

Cinnamon Sugar Apple Butter Pie

This custard-based pie is made with apple butter and topped with a layer of cinnamon sugar – all baked in a flaky gluten free pie crust! This is a dessert that everyone can enjoy!

5/5 from 8 ratings

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie

This peanut butter cookie pie is SO ooey gooey with loads of melty chocolate chips and a buttery flaky crust. It’s warm, rich, and best served with a scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream.

5/5 from 1 ratings

BEST EVER Apple Pie

This classic apple pie recipe is your new go-to. The center is tender and flavorful and the crust is light and buttery, making each slice absolute perfection.

4.9/5 from 13 ratings

The BEST Pecan Pie

This is the BEST pecan pie because it has a buttery and flaky pie crust and with a filling that is ooey gooey and loaded with pecans.

5/5 from 4 ratings

Mini Maple Pumpkin Pies

These mini pumpkin pies are SO STINKING CUTE! They’re baked in mason jar lids with an incredibly flaky crust and maple-sweetened pumpkin pie filling. They’re so fun, so adorable, and perfect for Thanksgiving dessert.

5/5 from 2 ratings

Mini Apple Hand Pies

These delicious apple hand pies take all the work out of making apple pie. The filling is just 6 simple ingredients, and the crust is store bought pie dough with a coating of cinnamon sugar – baked and ready in under an hour!

5/5 from 22 ratings


Thanksgiving Cake Recipes


Apple Fritter Skillet Cake

This apple fritter cake is a giant apple fritter baked in a skillet! It’s made with a moist spice cake that’s mixed with tender cinnamon apples, a thick buttery sauce, and is topped with an icing glaze.

5/5 from 48 ratings

Maple Brown Butter Cheesecake

This brown butter cheesecake is LIFE CHANGING. It’s a maple and brown butter cheesecake with a brown butter graham cracker crust. The crust covers the bottom, sides, and is baked as a double layer in the center of the cheesecake!

5/5 from 35 ratings

Chocolate Mousse Cake

This chocolate mousse cake is the definition of decadence! A single layer of moist chocolate cake is piled high with homemade light and fluffy chocolate mousse and the entire cake is covered in a rich shell of chocolate ganache. It’s the perfect treat for any special occasion and is sure to impress!

5/5 from 65 ratings

Pumpkin Pie Gooey Butter Cake

This pumpkin gooey butter cake is a delicious combination of super moist spice cake and smooth pumpkin pie filling. It’s a fun alternative to pumpkin pie and is so easy to make!

5/5 from 17 ratings

Apple Cider Cake

Inspired by a baked apple cider donut, this apple cider cake is super moist, coated in cinnamon sugar, and topped in an apple cider glaze. It’s basically a giant donut in bundt cake form!

5/5 from 49 ratings

Brownie Batter Butter Cake

This Brownie Batter Butter Cake is a chocolate twist on classic gooey butter cake. A moist chocolate cake is baked with a layer of silky brownie batter on top, creating a rich, fudgy topping with a delicate crackly crust. It’s the perfect combination of chocolate cake and brownie in every bite.

4.9/5 from 7 ratings

Apple Butter Spice Cake

This apple butter spice cake is so delicious and easy to make! Super moist spice cake baked with apple butter, fresh apples, and topped with whipped cream cheese frosting.

5/5 from 9 ratings

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

This giant chocolate chip cookie is baked with pumpkin and warm fall spices to make it the ULTIMATE fall cookie. It’s then topped with buttercream pumpkins and extra chocolate chips.

5/5 from 1 ratings

Pumpkin Cupcakes

Moist pumpkin cupcakes baked with warm spices and topped with silky cinnamon cream cheese frosting! Made extra special, these cupcakes are topped with edible mini pumpkins. THEY’RE SO STINKING CUTE!

5/5 from 19 ratings

Brown Butter Vanilla Cupcakes

These moist brown butter cupcakes are bursting with so much incredible nutty, toffee flavor. It’s the best way to level up a basic vanilla cupcake! Butter is browned to perfection and added to both the batter and the silky frosting. One bite and you’ll never NOT want a brown butter cupcake.

4.8/5 from 5 ratings

Apple Pie Cupcakes

These apple pie cupcakes have a moist spice cake base with whipped vanilla buttercream, tender cinnamon apples, and a baked pie crust garnish. It’s all the cozy flavors of a warm apple pie wrapped up in a delicious cupcake!

5/5 from 3 ratings



Chewy Spice Cookies

These chewy spice cookies will earn a permanent spot on your fall baking list! They are bursting with flavor, baked with warm spices and rich molasses. 

5/5 from 83 ratings

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are rich and gooey with melty chocolate chips and a hint of pumpkin spice! Made with brown butter, these cookies are also loaded with flavor and bring all the warm and cozy vibes needed for a delicious fall cookie recipe.

4.9/5 from 36 ratings

Spiced Maple Butter Cookies

These spiced maple butter cookies so incredibly delicious! Maple cookies are swirled with a spiced maple butter and topped with maple icing. They’re perfectly soft and buttery in the middle with wrinkly chewy edges!

5/5 from 22 ratings

Brown Butter & Maple Chewy Pumpkin Cookies

These chewy pumpkin cookies are bursting with flavor! Baked with loads of brown butter, warm spices, and pure pumpkin, these are the ultimate warm and cozy cookies that are perfect for the Fall baking season.

4.9/5 from 257 ratings


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