Best Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes (2024)

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The Best Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes on Hummingbird High Best Thanksgiving Pie Recipes 15-Minute Stand Mixer Pie Crust Recipe The Elevated Libby’s Pumpkin Pie Recipe Chocolate Chess Pie Recipe Black Bottom Chocolate Pecan Pie Recipe My Best Easy Vegan Pumpkin Pie Recipe Perfectly Smooth and Tangy Cream Cheese Pumpkin Pie Pre Baked Pie Crust Recipe Best Unique Thanksgiving Recipes 6 Inch Cheesecake Recipe Bread Pudding with Brown Butter Bourbon Sauce Perfectly Light and Airy Burnt Basque Cheesecake Recipe Easy and Classic Tiramisu Recipe Creme Brulee Without Torch Recipe Best Thanksgiving Breakfast Recipes Small Batch Pumpkin Muffins Recipe Maple Pecan Muffins Recipe Pumpkin Chai Bread Recipe Small Batch Pecan Sticky Buns Recipe Small Batch Cranberry Orange Muffins Recipe Small Batch Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin Recipe Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls My Best Dutch Baby Pancake Recipe Best Thanksgiving Cookie Recipes My Best Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe NOT CAKEY Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe 3 Flavor Pumpkin Neapolitan Cookies (With Pumpkin, Chocolate, And Vanilla) Snickerdoodle Recipe Without Cream of Tartar Best Thanksgiving Dinner Roll Recipes Soft and Fluffy Milk Bread Rolls Recipe Salted Honey Parker House Rolls Recipe Small Batch Cheesy Garlic Bread Recipe Best Thanksgiving Basic Recipes 15-Minute Stand Mixer Pie Crust Recipe Pre Baked Pie Crust Recipe Round-Up Of 10+ Pumpkin Dessert Recipes: Homemade Pumpkin Puree Best Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipes: Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice get new recipes via email: Leave a Comment & Rate this Recipe FAQs References

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posted by Michelle Lopez on November 20, 2021 (last updated Nov 15, 2023)

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The Best Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes on Hummingbird High

If you’re looking for the best Thanksgiving dessert recipes, you’re in luck!I’ve scoured my recipe archive for the best pies, cheesecakes, and other showstopping desserts so YOU don’t have to. There’s something here for everybody—I’ve even included other bakes like brunch items and dinner rolls to get you baking this Thanksgiving!

Best Thanksgiving Pie Recipes

15-Minute Stand Mixer Pie Crust Recipe

(5 stars) 31 reviews

This all butter pie crust recipe makes a buttery, flaky, and crispy 9-inch double pie crust using a stand mixer! Learn how to make pie crust with this easy, foolproof technique in this post complete with a video, detailed photos, tips and tricks, and FAQs.

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The Elevated Libby’s Pumpkin Pie Recipe

(5 stars) 32 reviews

This is the Libby's Famous Pumpkin Pie recipe on the back of a Libby's 100% Pumpkin Puree can, but made better with some easy pie baking tricks I've learned over the years! With its super smooth texture and subtly spiced filling, this recipe is the dictionary definition of a Thanksgiving pumpkin pie!

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Chocolate Chess Pie Recipe

(5 stars) 14 reviews

This chocolate chess pie recipe has both chocolate and cocoa powder, resulting in a gooey, brownie-like filling baked in an all-butter pie crust.

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Black Bottom Chocolate Pecan Pie Recipe

(4 stars) 3 reviews

This black bottom chocolate pecan pie is filled with a layer of dark chocolate ganache topped with gooey brown sugar pecan filling!

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My Best Easy Vegan Pumpkin Pie Recipe

(5 stars) 3 reviews

My best easy vegan pumpkin pie recipe is made with a coconut milk based pumpkin custard in a store bought vegan pie crust! The recipe comes together SO quickly—the custard comes together in less than 5 minutes!

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Perfectly Smooth and Tangy Cream Cheese Pumpkin Pie

(5 stars) 6 reviews

The cream cheese in this cream cheese pumpkin pie recipe makes the filling extra smooth and tangy, just like New York cheesecake! Grab the recipe in the post, along with tips, tricks, and process photos on how to make it.

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Pre Baked Pie Crust Recipe

(4.50 stars) 2 reviews

Pre baking your pie crust is the easiest way to guarantee a crispy pie crust with no soggy bottoms.

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Best Unique Thanksgiving Recipes

6 Inch Cheesecake Recipe

(4.88 stars) 102 reviews

This 6 inch cheesecake recipe makes a mini version of classic, New York style cheesecake! Despite its smaller size, this cheesecake still packs a punch with three layers: buttery graham cracker crust, dense and creamy cream cheese filling, and tart and tangy sour cream topping.

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Bread Pudding with Brown Butter Bourbon Sauce

(5 stars) 20 reviews

This bread pudding with bourbon sauce recipe layers the bread pudding with multiple layers of bourbon sauce, resulting in a super flavorful pudding with a sugar crust!

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Perfectly Light and Airy Burnt Basque Cheesecake Recipe

(4.87 stars) 15 reviews

This post will teach you how to make perfectly light and airy burnt basque cheesecake. This detailed guide is full of tips, tricks, and FAQs to help you succeed at making this lighter-than-New-York-style cheesecake. The best part? The recipe doesn't require a water bath; it really is one of the easiest cheesecake recipes you'll ever make!

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Easy and Classic Tiramisu Recipe

(5 stars) 5 reviews

This no bake tiramisu recipe is the classic Italian dessert made with espresso soaked ladyfingers and mascarpone pudding.

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Creme Brulee Without Torch Recipe

(5 stars) 12 reviews

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Best Thanksgiving Breakfast Recipes

Small Batch Pumpkin Muffins Recipe

(5 stars) 18 reviews

This small batch pumpkin muffin recipe makes super light, moist, and fluffy pumpkin muffins! The recipe makes only 4 muffins with tall domed sugar tops.

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Maple Pecan Muffins Recipe

(5 stars) 5 reviews

These quick and easy maple pecan muffins are extra flavorful thanks to ingredients like pecan flour and maple syrup (in BOTH the batter and glaze).

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Pumpkin Chai Bread Recipe

(4.93 stars) 14 reviews

This pumpkin chai bread recipe has a unique sugar top and is light, moist, and flavored with chai spices like cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, clove, and nutmeg.

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Small Batch Pecan Sticky Buns Recipe

(5 stars) 1 review

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Small Batch Cranberry Orange Muffins Recipe

This small batch recipe makes only FOUR cranberry orange muffins! Each small batch cranberry orange muffin has a signature sparkling, sugary domed muffin top. The sponge is packed with lots of orange flavor, thanks to both fresh orange zest and orange juice soaked dried cranberries in the batter.

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Small Batch Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin Recipe

(5 stars) 5 reviews

These pumpkin cream cheese muffins are soft, moist, and filled with lots of swirls of cream cheese! The recipe is small batch and only makes 6 delicious muffins.

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Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls

(5 stars) 1 review

These apple pie cinnamon rolls are a cross between two classic desserts: apple streusel pie and cinnamon rolls! The rolls are filled with butter, sugar, and cinnamon, as well as apples that are pre-cooked in even more cinnamon and butter. The recipe then instructs you to top each roll with sour cream glaze and crunchy pie streusel.

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My Best Dutch Baby Pancake Recipe

(5 stars) 8 reviews

My best Dutch baby pancake recipe makes a tall, puffy pancake similar to a popover! The pancake is baked in a cast-iron skillet, comes together in less than 5 minutes, and doesn’t require any fancy equipment like a stand mixer or a blender.

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Best Thanksgiving Cookie Recipes

My Best Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

(5 stars) 46 reviews

My best snickerdoodle cookies recipe makes snickerdoodles that are soft yet chewy in the middle, with crispyand lightly puffed edges

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NOT CAKEY Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

(4.85 stars) 38 reviews

These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are NOT cakey. Instead, they are crispy on the edges, chewy and fudgy in their centers, and filled with pools of chocolate—just like your favorite chocolate chip cookies!

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3 Flavor Pumpkin Neapolitan Cookies (With Pumpkin, Chocolate, And Vanilla)

(4.86 stars) 7 reviews

These pumpkin Neapolitan cookies have three different flavors in one cookie: pumpkin vanilla, pumpkin spice, and chocolate pumpkin! The cookies are made with one chewy, buttery, pumpkin sugar cookie base.

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Snickerdoodle Recipe Without Cream of Tartar

(4.97 stars) 189 reviews

This snickerdoodle recipe makes snickerdoodles that are soft and chewy in the middle, yet crispy and lightly puffed around the edges. The best part? Unlike most traditional snickerdoodle recipes, this recipe does NOT use cream of tartar. The recipe uses baking powder instead! As a result, it's likely that you already have all the ingredients you need to make these cookies at home!

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Best Thanksgiving Dinner Roll Recipes

Soft and Fluffy Milk Bread Rolls Recipe

These soft and fluffy milk bread rolls are made with the tangzhong method (which instructs you to make a roux for the dough), creating extra soft buns.

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Salted Honey Parker House Rolls Recipe

(4.50 stars) 6 reviews

The Parker House rolls are light, fluffy, and drenched in a generous amount of salted honey butter. The honey, sea salt, and salted butter together makes an utterly addicting salty-sweet flavor combo that works well as a side dish to almost every main!

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Small Batch Cheesy Garlic Bread Recipe

(5 stars) 4 reviews

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Best Thanksgiving Basic Recipes

15-Minute Stand Mixer Pie Crust Recipe

(5 stars) 31 reviews

This all butter pie crust recipe makes a buttery, flaky, and crispy 9-inch double pie crust using a stand mixer! Learn how to make pie crust with this easy, foolproof technique in this post complete with a video, detailed photos, tips and tricks, and FAQs.

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Pre Baked Pie Crust Recipe

(4.50 stars) 2 reviews

Pre baking your pie crust is the easiest way to guarantee a crispy pie crust with no soggy bottoms.

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Round-Up Of 10+ Pumpkin Dessert Recipes: Homemade Pumpkin Puree

(5 stars) 1 review

No canned pumpkin puree? No problem. Make your own with this homemade pumpkin puree recipe (made with only 2 ingredients!), along with a round-up of the best pumpkin baking recipes!

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Best Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipes: Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice

This quick and easy pumpkin pie spice recipe uses spices already in your pantry (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves) to make pumpkin spice!

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FAQs

What is the most popular dessert at Thanksgiving? ›

In general, pie reigns supreme as a Thanksgiving dessert. While some families have their nice selections of pie servings, tradition says apple, pumpkin pie, and a southern pecan pie are the go-tos, typically made with a buttery pastry pie crust.

What 4 types of pies are most popular at Thanksgiving? ›

Here, you'll see that the top five most searched pies include:
  • Apple pie.
  • Pumpkin pie.
  • Key lime pie.
  • Sweet potato pie.
  • Pecan pie.
Nov 14, 2023

What pie is eaten the most on Thanksgiving? ›

Pumpkin Pie Is The Must-Have Fall Dessert That Reigns Supreme.

How many desserts for Thanksgiving? ›

I recommend three to four desserts because everyone has different tastes, and often -dietary restrictions. Finding one perfect dessert is like ordering one pizza that everyone will want. Not gonna happen : ). So, make the evening easier by providing Thanksgiving dessert variety.

Which president refused to recognize Thanksgiving? ›

While Thanksgiving technically isn't a religious holiday, the “giving thanks” part of it struck Jefferson as being far too religious for his tastes. As our nation's third president, he stirred controversy by refusing to recognize Thanksgiving.

What is the most popular side dish at Thanksgiving? ›

mashed potatoes! Rising from second place in 2022, mashed potatoes take the crown for America's favorite Thanksgiving side dish. Creamy, rich, and comforting, they're the perfect accompaniment to turkey and gravy, so it makes sense that mashed potatoes came out on top.

What is the number one favorite pie in the USA? ›

The clear winner for the United States as a whole was (not surprisingly) apple pie with more than 27% of sales going to the traditional flavor.

What every Thanksgiving dinner should have? ›

But a few things are guaranteed, no matter where I am or who I'm with: There will be turkey; there will be stuffing; there will be cranberry sauce, gravy, potatoes, and pie.

What is shoo fly pie made from? ›

What is in shoofly pie? The star of the show is molasses, but shoofly pie is also typically composed of flour, brown sugar, water, spices, and sometimes egg. The pie is topped with a crumb mixture and served in a flaky pie crust. Shoofly pie is similar to a coffee cake but with a gooey molasses bottom.

What is the second most popular Thanksgiving pie? ›

Pumpkin and apple pie dominate Thanksgiving.

How many sides should you have at Thanksgiving? ›

For sides like mashed potatoes and stuffing, you should have at least one dish for every five people and at least two dishes for 10 people or more. If you're serving a salad, one should be enough unless you're serving 20 people or more.

How many sides should you serve for Thanksgiving? ›

For 4 people, choose 1-2 appetizers and 3 sides. For 8 people, choose 1-3 appetizers and 3 sides. For 16 people, choose 2-3 appetizers and 3 or more sides.

What is the desert for Thanksgiving? ›

Tarts and Thanksgiving pies may be the tradition that overtakes the dessert table this holiday, but don't forget to make room for cakes, puddings, and ice cream sandwiches for a well-rounded spread.

What desert do people eat in Thanksgiving? ›

This list of Thanksgiving desserts also includes cookies, brownies, Thanksgiving cheesecakes, and Ree Drummond's favorite recipe for pecan pie. And speaking of Thanksgiving pies, the list ahead has tons of ideas for chocolate chess pie, caramel apple pie, sweet potato pie, and so much more.

What is the most common favorite dessert? ›

Ice cream is America's favorite dessert and is a key driver of the frozen food category.

What is the most popular dessert turkey? ›

1. Turkish Baklava. This is the most famous traditional Turkish dessert that people around the world know and enjoy.

What are the three most popular pies for Thanksgiving? ›

The United States' favorite Thanksgiving pies: pumpkin, pecan, and apple | YouGov.

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