Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes Ideas
Enjoy sweet Thanksgiving dessert recipes Ideas, easy pies, pumpkin treats, apple bakes, parfaits, and snacks everyone will love.
Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes Ideas
Make your Thanksgiving sweeter with these easy homemade desserts. From classic pies and creamy pumpkin treats to warm apple bakes and kid friendly snacks, these recipes bring a cozy, festive finish to your holiday table. Find more Delicious Thanksgiving Recipes Made for Sharing recipes, for all other dinners and side dishes.
FAQ’s and Tips
What is the most popular dessert at Thanksgiving?
- pumpkin pies and tarts or parfaits
- sweet potato pies or tarts
- pecan bars or pie
- apple tarts and pies
- cheesecakes
- carrot cakes
- cranberry desserts
Why do we eat pumpkin pie on thanksgiving?
Pumpkin desserts such as pies and tarts and no bake parfait and other desserts are normally eaten at thanksgiving because that is to say thanks for the harvest of pumpkin squashes that are picked from the fields.
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Easy Homemade Pumpkin Custard Pie
Make this Easy Homemade Pumpkin Custard Pie with a shortbread crust, creamy filling, and warm fall spices. A cozy autumn dessert.
Easy No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake
Easy No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake tart recipe idea. Makes two with biscuit or cookie base for a thanksgiving dessert pie for family to enjoy.
Bake this Mini Frosted Pumpkin Cakes recipe idea. Tasty moist pumpkin spiced, small cakes decorated with caramel buttercream, for dessert.
These Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cakes recipe are spicy and made from scratch. An easy bake, with vanilla butter icing, makes a moist dessert.
Tasty Moist Carrot Cake recipe. A favorite baked with and crushed pineapple, desiccated coconut. With an amazing fluffy cream cheese frosting.
Best Pumpkin Cake recipe with salted caramel cream cheese frosting. A delicious dessert using pumpkin puree, pumpkin spices for fall treat.
Mini Apple Rose Tarts recipe. A simple but delicious sweet apple oven baked apple pie or tart for a dessert garnished with castor sugar.
Mini Carrot Cake with White Chocolate
Mini Carrot Cake with White Chocolate recipe idea. A mini Bundt shape bite for a fine dining dessert, topped with shaved white chocolate.
Chocolate Crusted Cranberry Orange Cheesecake
Chocolate Crusted Cranberry Orange Cheesecake recipe idea to create for thanksgiving or Christmas, cookie base oven bake dessert.
Bake the perfect homemade pecan pie recipe with a rich, gooey filling and crunchy pecans in a buttery crust. A classic, easy dessert for any occasion.
Easy Shortbread Pecan Bars recipe. A shortbread crust topped with pecan nuts, honey, cream and brown sugar for a healthy snack bar.
Easy Pumpkin Cream Parfait Recipe
Easy Pumpkin Cream Parfait Recipe dessert for Thanksgiving. Layered with crushed chocolate chip biscuit, pumpkin cream cheese and cream.
Bread pudding and Apple Bake Recipe. Simple of old fashion breakfast or even a dessert with vanilla sauce and raisins casserole dish.
Sticky Date Pudding and Sauce recipe. An easy fine dining dessert idea is known as sticky toffee pudding, served warm with butterscotch sauce.
Apple Oat Crumble Pie has tender apple pieces with cinnamon and sugar topped with a crunch golden oat streusel with brown sugar.
Easy Apple Puff Pastry Turnovers recipe ideas. A simple mini dessert to bake with puff pastry and sweet apples with sugar, cinnamon.
An Easy Homemade Apple Pie and Crust recipe to bake. Double crust with layers of sweet honeycrisp apples, cinnamon and sugar a warm dessert.
White Chocolate Panna Cotta with chocolate castor sugar coated leaves. A golden gooseberry and sliced strawberry for decoration with sauce.
Creamy Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe
Creamy Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe that is an easy 3 ingredient homemade frozen dessert and a no chum and no bake family recipe.
Mini Apple Cream Tartlets recipe with baked shortbread pastry for tarts. Filled with creamed apple sauce, slices of fresh apples for dessert.
Mini Pavlova Cherries & Cream Cheese Filling
Bake this stunning Mini Pavlova Cherries & Cream Cheese Filling with strawberry sauce recipe for a fine dining gourmet fancy dessert idea.
Easy Tasty No Bake Tiramisu Tart Recipe. An Italian cuisine but similar to South African fridge tart, a dessert with lady fingers and coffee.
Easy Malva Pudding and Custard with a sauce recipe. Best South African family dessert idea, oven baked with a sauce, or serve with custard.
Affordable Apple Pie and Cream
Affordable Apple Pie and Cream dessert recipe. This is a super easy and affordable apple pie to bake for a large family dessert.
Instant Pot Caramel Apple Cheesecake
Instant Pot Salted Caramel Apple Cheesecake tart recipe. A dessert cooked with apple cider vinegar, kraft caramel sweets and cream cheese.
Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding
Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding recipe. Tasty old fashioned classic dessert, easy and simple to mix all together in a dish, and oven bake.
The most popular desserts on thanksgiving.
Pumpkin pie is traditionally the most popular dessert on Thanksgiving. A typical thanksgiving dessert is a pie or a tart. Pumpkin and apple are the most popular. But they do eat cakes puddings and ice creams. Then there are also the desserts flavors that contain pears, cranberries and chocolate.
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