25+ Delicious Thanksgiving Dessert Ideas For The Family
The best part of Thanksgiving is making these delicious Thanksgiving Dessert Ideas! And these recipes are so indulgent that it makes me want to get on the treadmill in preparation for Thanksgiving Day! These look crazy good…you and your family are sure to love every one of them!
All of the Thanksgiving desserts in this list are made with ingredients that people love about fall.
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Thanksgiving Bake Sale Ideas
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Why You’ll Love Them
I get it. This time of year is so busy that you barely have time to think or breathe.
I made this list so you can find the most creative Thanksgiving dessert ideas in one place. Just click through to each recipe, buy the ingredients, and get baking!
It’s that easy!
What Kind Of Desserts Are Best For Thanksgiving?
All of the Thanksgiving baking ideas below belong on the Thanksgiving table. They just fit. But what kinds of desserts are Thanksgiving desserts?
The most common desserts to serve at Thanksgiving are:
- Pies
- Apple Desserts
- Pumpkin Desserts
- Pecan Desserts
- Sweet Breads
- Trifles
You can definitely think beyond those, but they are the most common things to serve at Thanksgiving.
Unique Thanksgiving Desserts
Not only are the recipes in this list tasty, easy, and able to feed a large family, but they are unique, too!
For example, instead of making pecan pie this year, make mini pecan pies!
These recipes will take the tried-and-true desserts everyone loves and prepare them in a unique and fun way.
Browse and flip through the fun Thanksgiving baking ideas below!
Thanksgiving Dessert Ideas
Combine a rich, decadent apple pie filling sitting on a flaky crust. All topped with irresistible cinnamon rolls and drizzled with icing! This dessert won't last long!
Make the perfect caramel apple right at home! The most important part of homemade caramel apples is making the caramel so make sure you have a candy thermometer on hand. Heat your caramel to the perfect temp then dip your apples and decorate.
These little guys are super quick and easy to make! You only need five ingredients and your bags to put them in! Perfect last-minute school classroom party snack!
Combine regular nutter butter bars with yellow-colored white chocolate bark and add Reese's pieces to the top to create these adorable Indian Corn cookies! The kids will love making these!
Mini Dutch Apple Pies with Caramel Sauce are perfectly sized pies with homemade caramel sauce that takes 5 minutes to make!
All you need is a box of gingerbread mix, about 3 apples, some brown sugar and spices, and a little butter and flour. It takes about 10 minutes to put the whole thing together and get into the oven.
Quick and easy 11 ingredients and 8 steps to make this delicious bread just in time for Thanksgiving! It takes 1.5hrs roughly from start to finish for this recipe so be prepared!
This dessert is actually low in fat and tastes just like pumpkin pie! You only need six ingredients and the container you plan to put the finished product in!
If you have leftover Halloween candy to use up, this candy cheesecake is a perfect recipe to make for Thanksgiving desserts!
If you're trying to be gluten-free this year or baking for a group that is, these easy pumpkin cupcakes are sure to be a winner. One batch of the seven ingredients will make a regular portion of cupcakes.
Who knew you could make dessert chimichangas!? Now you can! Just wrap the caramel apple filling in a soft flour tortilla and deep fry for a crispy treat.
Whoopie pies are always popular and now you can make a seasonal flavor with these Pumpkin Whoopie Pies! Even better that this recipe shows how to make a healthier version too!
Create a dessert they can take home and eat too! 5 ingredients and your jars is all you need to complete these delicious pies in a jar!
Love pumpkin? What if you could combine pumpkin with one of the most classic cookies, the snickerdoodle? This recipe shows you how to create just that and make them fluffy and chewy!
In just half an hour you can create 20 of these adorable little mini pecan pies! Wondering how to adapt this recipe to fit your gluten-free, vegan, or another type of diet? She does it for you! Just adapt the ingredients per the instructions and you're good to bake!
Pumpkin Rolls are one of the most popular desserts we see this time of year. Now you can add an orange cream cheese filling and change up the classic flavor! The recipe only takes 35 minutes from prep to ready to eat!
Make these mini pies or cookies with 9 ingredients! The flakey pie crust combined with a delicious homemade apple pie filling for the best apple pie cookies recipe ever!
Ever wondered what the dessert form of a dip was? It's a Fluff! You'd be surprised what you can dip in a sweet fluff! Make a batch of the pumpkin fluff and add crackers, fruits, and more around it and watch it disappear!
So the name may throw you off at first BUT it's not just pumpkin in this smoothie! There are actually three other fruits and a few other sweet ingredients combined together to make this sweet drink!
Another pumpkin dip to try this one actually has marshmallows so it's almost like a pumpkin s'mores if you will. It's recommended to serve with graham crackers but you can use fruits and more if you prefer.
Make a twist on a classic pumpkin truffle recipe and add graham cracker crumbs to make a brand new recipe with these pumpkin pie truffles!
Create a festive Thanksgiving poke cake with this pumpkin recipe! You'll need just 7 ingredients and just under an hour to complete your Pumpkin Spice Poke Cake, but be careful it'll go quick!
Combine crumbled moist gingerbread, and a creamy layer made with pumpkin pie filling and vanilla pudding all layered with whipped cream to create these delicious gingerbread triffles!
Did you forget to make a dessert for Thanksgiving? Bark is a quick and easy dessert that you can adjust to whatever holiday you need it for! Add some pumpkin spice and a few other ingredients to your chocolate and bake!
Learn how you can bake a pecan pumpkin bread dessert from scratch in just an hour!
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Thanks for featuring my Gluten-Free Pumpkin Cupcakes in this decadent round-up!!! 🙂
Yum! I will take one of each, please! Thanks so much for featuring my Easy Pumpkin Sugar Cookies! Have a great week!
Thanks so much for featuring my pumpkin pie spice pralines!
Thank you Susan- These are all so tasty looking!!!
Thank you kindly for featuring our Loaded Pumpkin Cookies in your post!!!
great roundup! love it
Thanks Shamene! Glad you stopped by tonight!
Thanks so much for choosing our Baked Pumpkin Donuts 🙂
Your so very welcome Nicole!
Thank you for featuring my Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies!
What an amazing round up of recipes! Which one should I try first?! I can say the Apple Chimichangas ARE delicious, I have made them before and my family LOVES them! Happy Thanksgiving to you and many thanks.