35 Best Thanksgiving Desserts
Dessert is an absolute must to cap off a perfect Thanksgiving dinner. This is the ultimate list of the best Thanksgiving dessert recipes! These desserts include pecan pie cheesecake, apple pie cheesecake, pumpkin cheesecake bars, classic pies and many other delicious desserts! Whatever you’re looking for, I’ve got the perfect Thanksgiving dessert to shine on your Thanksgiving table!
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Apple Pie Cheesecake
This is the best apple pie cheesecake! It is a spiced, creamy cheesecake over a cinnamon graham cracker crust, topped with tender apples, salted caramel sauce and a crunchy crumb topping. It’s the ultimate fall indulgence you should absolutely indulge in this season!
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Move over pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake has entered the chat. This pumpkin cheesecake is super creamy with the perfect amount of pumpkin spice, and it’s all over a layer of Biscoff cookie crust. This is THE recipe to make for Thanksgiving dinner!
Pecan Pie Cheesecake
This is the best pecan pie cheesecake! It has a brown butter creamy cheesecake layer over a brown butter graham cracker crust and it’s topped with a gooey caramel pecan pie topping. It’s a super decadent dessert and it’s perfect for Thanksgiving!
Gooey Butter Pecan Cake
This is the best gooey butter pecan cake! It’s a brown butter cake with a layer of buttered, crunchy pecans, gooey cream cheese topping and salted caramel sauce. Each gooey bite is full of buttery flavor and totally melts in your mouth!
Mini Pecan Pies
These are the best mini pecan pies! They have acorn shaped buttery crusts filled with gooey pecan pie filling and they’re sprinkled with sugar. If you are a pecan pie lover you will love this fun twist on a classic recipe!
Apple Pie Bars
These are best apple pie bars; they’re like apple crisp- but better! They have shortbread crusts, filled with spiced caramel apples, a crunchy streusel topping and a salted caramel drizzle. Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or on their own!
Thanksgiving Cracker Toffee
This is the best Thanksgiving cracker toffee! It’s buttery, toffee covered crackers, topped with a layer of chocolate, spiced apples, streusel and pecans!
Mini Apple Pies
These are the best apple hand pies! They have an apple shaped buttery crust filled with a homemade apple pie filling and they’re sprinkled with spiced sugar. They’re a fun twist on a classic apple pie recipe!
Lattice Crust Apple Pie
Classic lattice crust apple pie, with homemade buttery, flaky crust and sweet, spiced apple filling. This is the perfect dessert for your Thanksgiving gathering!
Pecan Pie
Maple bourbon pecan pie has a sweet, gooey center, flaky pie crust, layer of toasted pecans and uses absolutely no corn syrup! Instead it’s made with maple syrup, brown sugar and a little bourbon to make the best gooey filling!
Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
These are the best pumpkin bars! They have a sweet, buttery graham cracker crust, silky smooth pumpkin cheesecake layer and a brown butter cream cheese frosting and salted caramel sauce topping. These are the perfect treat for pumpkin season and Thanksgiving dessert!
Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies
These are the best pumpkin cheesecake cookies! They are super chewy pumpkin cookies, stuffed with creamy cheesecake filling and rolled in pumpkin spice sugar. They’re the perfect fall treat and every pumpkin lover will adore them!
Pumpkin Poke Cake
This is the best pumpkin poke cake! It’s a pumpkin cake with a super moist crumb, flavored with lots of warm spices, filled with salted caramel sauce, topped with luscious cream cheese frosting and decorated with little pumpkins. This easy pumpkin dessert is the perfect thing to bake for pumpkin season!
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
This recipe is for moist and fluffy pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Flavored with the perfect amount of pumpkin pie spice, they’re the perfect fall treat for every pumpkin spice lover!
Pumpkin Hand Pies
Okay technically these are Harry Potter pumpkin pasties, but basically they’re the same as pumpkin hand pies! They have pumpkin shaped buttery crusts filled with a sweet pumpkin filling. You will love this easy recipe!
Pumpkin Blondies
These are the best pumpkin blondies! They’re super chewy, full of pumpkin flavor, fall spices and white chocolate chips. This perfect fall treat will be your new favorite blondie recipe!
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
These are the best pumpkin cinnamon rolls! They’re soft and fluffy with pumpkin spice dough, brown sugar spiced filling and maple cream cheese glaze. These pumpkin cinnamon rolls are the perfect thing to bake for a special weekend breakfast or for a indulgent fall treat!
Chewy Pumpkin Cookies
These chewy pumpkin cookies have the perfect amount of pumpkin spice and each bite truly melts in your mouth. With chewy centers and spiced sugar topping, you will not believe how delicious these fall cookies are!
Salted Caramel Cheesecake
This white chocolate salted caramel cheesecake is silky smooth, and the perfect balance of salty-sweet. It has melted white chocolate added to the batter for extra sweetness and creaminess, and a graham cracker pretzel crust. It’s topped with homemade salted caramel sauce for the ultimate treat!
Salted Caramel Spice Cake
This is the best spice cake! It’s moist with lots of warm fall spice flavor, filled with salted caramel, topped with luscious cream cheese frosting and a caramel drip.
Apple Cider Cupcakes
These apple cider cupcakes are made with a thick apple cider reduction and the perfect blend of cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. They’re topped with delicious cream cheese frosting and drizzled with apple cider reduction.
Apple Cider Donuts
This recipe is for soft and moist baked apple cider donuts. They’re flavored with an apple cider reduction and rolled in cinnamon spice sugar. They’re literally fall in breakfast form!
Maple Pecan Cake
This recipe is for a sweet and tender maple cake full of chopped pecans, frosted and filled with decadent brown butter buttercream. This maple pecan layer cake is sure to be a pecan lovers dream!
Chai Cookies
These are the best chai cookies! They are super chewy cookies, made with warm fall spices and brown butter, and rolled in spiced sugar. They’re the perfect cookie for fall!
Brown Butter Caramel Cake
This is the best brown butter caramel cake! It’s extra moist with lots of brown butter flavor, filled with caramel sauce, topped with luscious brown butter cream cheese frosting and a caramel swirl. Caramel lovers will absolutely love this decadent cake!
Pumpkin Bread
This pumpkin bread is super moist, full of delicious pumpkin spice flavor and chocolate chips. It’s the best pumpkin bread recipe you’ll ever bake!
Best Cinnamon Rolls EVER
These are the best cinnamon rolls EVER. They’re soft and fluffy with a gooey brown sugar cinnamon filling, frosted with cream cheese frosting all while drenched in a rich, buttery brown sugar cinnamon caramel sauce on the bottom.
Honey Cornbread Muffins
Sweet and savory classic cornbread made into muffins, with buttery, moist centers and velvety sweet honey butter on the side.
Apple Cider Cake
It’s extra moist with lots of apple cider flavor, filled with apple cider caramel, topped with luscious cream cheese frosting and an apple cider caramel swirl. Apple cider lovers will absolutely love this decadent cake!
Sticky Buns
This recipe is for indulgent maple pecan sticky buns. Soft, pillowy, gooey cinnamon rolls covered in sticky maple caramel sauce and chopped pecans.
Biscoff Cheesecake
This is the best Biscoff cheesecake recipe! It’s a simple recipe for creamy, cookie butter cheesecake with a Biscoff cookie crust, topped with cookie butter. This cheesecake is perfect dessert for all the Biscoff lovers in your life!
Apple Cider Cheesecake Cookies
These are the best apple cider cheesecake cookies! They are super chewy apple cider cookies stuffed with creamy cheesecake filling, brushed with butter and sprinkled with spiced sugar. They’re the perfect fall cookie and every apple cider lover will adore them!
Salted Caramel Almond Cupcakes
These are moist and tender almond cupcakes filled with homemade salted caramel sauce and topped with melt-in-your-mouth, delicious salted caramel buttercream. These salted caramel almond cupcakes are the best cupcakes!
Apple Cinnamon Rolls
These are the best apple cinnamon rolls! They’re soft and fluffy, flavored with apple cider reduction, filled with a gooey apple butter cinnamon filling, and frosted with apple cider cream cheese frosting.
Pumpkin Spice Donuts
These are the best pumpkin spice donuts! They’re extra moist, full of pumpkin spice flavor and topped with a spiced maple glaze. These are the perfect donuts to bake for pumpkin season!
