17 Best Thanksgiving Desserts Recipes

I have already shared with you the best Thanksgiving food for your special day but after having a delicious Thanksgiving dinner we do crave a delicious dessert. In this post, I have shared the best Thanksgiving desserts ever. You will love these desserts for sure.

We all know Thanksgiving Turkey, mashed potatoes and Thanksgiving side dishes are major highlights of the Thanksgiving celebrations but everyone holds their breath and keeps extra space in their stomach for Thanksgiving desserts. The kids especially wait at their Thanksgiving table for the yummy desserts be it cakes, trifles, or cookies.

We are all aware of the traditional Thanksgiving desserts like Apple Pie, Pecan Pie, Pumpkin cheesecake, and Pumpkin pie.

There are some trending recipes as well like Cookie Bars, Pumpkin Cake Bars and Lemon Bars. Few health-conscious people only opt for keto or sugar-free desserts.

Let me start with

The Best And Easy Thanksgiving Desserts Recipes

1. Caramel Apple Cheesecake

Caramel apple cheesecake is one of my favorite Thanksgiving desserts. This is one of the best apple desserts for sure. Creamy caramel and juicy apples melt in your mouth and give a yummy feeling.

It requires 10 minutes of prep time and 35 minutes of cooking time. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Let me give you the ingredients. You need cream cheese, granulated sugar, graham cracker crumbs, cinnamon, eggs, apple pie filling, caramel, butter, and vanilla extract.

Refrigerate the dessert for 3 hours and then you can serve them. You can keep the dessert in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 4 days. It freezes well for 6 months.

2. Turtle Cheeseball

Thanksgiving is a special occasion so for a special occasion, you need a special dessert called Turtle Cheeseball. When I heard it for the first time I was perplexed. At the same time, I was curious to know what it is and how it tastes.

It tastes so wonderful. The recipe requires an hour of prep time. The ingredients include cream cheese, sugar, unsalted butter, caramel sauce, pecans, caramel bits, and mini chocolate chips.

You can make it a day before and refrigerate it. It is best served with apple slices, pretzels, Ritz Crackers, and animal crackers.

3. Pumpkin Cheesecake

You get the best of both worlds a cheesecake that tastes like a pumpkin pie. The equipment needed are an oven, a food processor, 9-inch springform pan.

It requires 30 minutes of prep time and an hour of cooking time. Preheat the oven to 350°F. To make the crust the ingredients include graham cracker crumbs, butter, cinnamon, and sugar.

For the filling, the ingredients include pumpkin pie spice, all-purpose flour, eggs, cream cheese, sour cream, real vanilla extract, brown sugar, pumpkin pie mix, and salt.

Top it up with caramel sauce, toasted pecans, cold heavy cream, and pumpkin pie spice. It is one of the best fall desserts.

4. Pineapple Dream Dessert

This dessert is loved by all my near and dear ones. So no matter what year it is we make sure we have Pineapple dream dessert as one of our Thanksgiving desserts.

Let me also tell you you can make the same dessert with strawberry as well, just replace it with pineapple, and the rest all the process is the same.

It takes 25 minutes to make. Preheat the oven to 300°F. The ingredients include unsalted butter, graham crumbs, cream cheese, pineapple, or strawberry ( if you want to make strawberry dream dessert), cool whip, and sugar.

We have been making it every year for the last few years. Every year when we decide to make a list of Thanksgiving desserts this always makes its way.

5. Lemon Cream Cheese Bars

It looks so delicious. Lemon Cake cheese bars are loved by people of all ages be it kids, youngsters, or grannies. It is a crowd-pleaser for sure.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Let me give you all the ingredients. You need lemons, white sugar, melted butter, cooking spray, cream cheese, and crescent roll dough.

6. Cherry Cheesecake Dip

Cherry Cheesecake Dip is perfect for the holiday season. It is easy to make and does not take much time.

The ingredients include softened cream cheese, cherry pie filling, whipped topping, and marshmallow creme. It is best enjoyed with Nilla wafers, graham crackers, or pretzels.

7. Caramel Pumpkin Butter Bars

One of the best desserts in Pumpkin season is Caramel Pumpkin Butter Bars and it is one of the most loved Thanksgiving recipes. The dessert not only looks delicious but tastes yummy too.

It is a combination of butter bars and caramel pumpkin sauce. It requires 10 minutes of prep time, 50 minutes of cooking time, and 1 hour of chill time.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. You require a 9×13 baking dish. Pumpkin puree and challenge butter are two of the most important ingredients.

The ingredients for butter bars are all-purpose flour, challenge butter, granulated sugar, and confectioners sugar. To make the pumpkin caramel you need a mix of challenge butter, pumpkin pie and spice, pumpkin puree, brown sugar, and whole milk.

Keep the bars in an airtight container in the fridge and it will be good for 5 days.

8. Classic Pumpkin Cheesecake

This creamy cheesecake is rich and flavorful. You can either use a homemade pumpkin puree or a canned one. If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice or don’t prefer it use ground cinnamon instead.

It requires 30 minutes of prep time, an hour of cooking time, and 6 hours of chilling time. The equipment needed are an oven, a 9-inch springform pan and a KitchenAid stand mixer.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. The ingredients required to make the cheesecake include pumpkin pie spice, pure vanilla extract, cream cheese, light brown sugar, eggs, pure pumpkin puree, and heavy cream.

To make the crust the ingredients include unsalted butter, pumpkin pie spice, graham cracker crumbs, and granulated sugar. The recipe can be made a day in advance, refrigerate it. You can also freeze it for a month.

9. Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake

The Apple Cinnamon Coffee recipe is perfect for special occasions like Thanksgiving. You can serve it for breakfast or it can be enjoyed as a dessert too.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Bake it for 50 minutes. For doneness insert a toothpick in the middle of the cake, once it’s out, it should be clean.

The ingredients include all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, vanilla extract, eggs, sour cream or Greek yogurt, butter and sugar.

To make an apple nut sugar mixture you need a mix of apples, walnuts, cinnamon, and sugar.For brown glaze mix confectioners sugar, brown sugar, and butter.

10. Pecan Pie Cheesecake

When you combine two of your favorite desserts then you will get even a more delicious dessert and that is what happens when pecan pie and cheesecake are combined.

It takes 10 minutes of prep time and an hour of cooking time. For the cheesecake filling you require a mix of heavy whipping cream, brown sugar, eggs, and cream cheese. For pecan pie filling you need a mix of brown sugar, eggs, pecans, butter, and maple syrup.

To make the crust mix butter, brown sugar, and vanilla wafer crumbs and lastly for the pecan caramel topping get a mix of pecans, cinnamon, sugar, heavy whipping cream, and brown sugar.

11. Cheesecake Pumpkin Bars

This is again one of my favorite Thanksgiving recipes. It tastes so good that even before you will finish the first serving you will crave the second one. Cheesecake at the bottom and pumpkin pie above… so yummy.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. You need an 8×8 baking dish. To make pumpkin pie you need a mix of cinnamon, brown sugar, eggs, ground nutmeg, salt, cinnamon, pumpkin, and evaporated milk.

To make the cookie crust you need Biscoff European cookies, butter, and sugar. For candies pecans, you need butter, sugar and pecans. Lastly to make the cheesecake you need a mix of vanilla, egg, sugar, and cream cheese.

12. Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake

The preparation time for this delicious dessert is only 20 minutes and then you have to cook it for 40 minutes. I know after looking at the picture you have decided that this will be one of your Thanksgiving desserts for sure and why not. It’s worth it.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Bake it for 40 minutes. The ingredients for apple cider glaze include a mix of apple cider and powdered sugar. To make the cake the ingredients include sour cream, baking soda, granulated sugar, flour, vanilla, salt, baking powder, butter, and egg.

For the cinnamon streusel crumb, you need a mix of vanilla, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, granulated sugar, apples, melted butter, salt and brown sugar.

13. Turtle Pumpkin Cheesecake

It is made with a wonderful combination of chocolate, nuts, and caramel. Preheat the oven to 300°F. For the crust, you need a mix of melted butter and thin chocolate wafer cookie crumbs.

To make the topping the ingredients include vegetable oil, chopped pecans, caramel topping, and bittersweet baking chocolate.

For the filling, you need all-purpose flour, eggs, granulated sugar, pumpkin pie spice, cream cheese, canned pumpkin and brown sugar.

14. Pumpkin Cake

It is one of the best Thanksgiving dessert recipes, the combination of pumpkin and spice flavor is perfect for the day. You require a 9×13 inch pan. To make the batter thick and wet use all-purpose flour instead of cake flour.

It requires 15 minutes of prep time and 30 minutes of cooking time. To make it you need to preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for 30-35 minutes.

The ingredients include pumpkin puree, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, eggs, pure vanilla extract, baking soda and all-purpose flour. You can decorate the cake with mini pumpkin toppers.

For cream cheese frosting use a mix of full-fat brick cream cheese, pure vanilla extract, confectioners sugar, salt, and unsalted butter. Keep the leftovers in an airtight container with a lid and it will be good for up to 5 days.

15. Caramel Apple Trifles

It is one of the best apple desserts. I have added granola to make the trifle lighter and crunchy. Before making the trifle make sure you make caramel sauce, you can make it 2 weeks in advance and keep it in the fridge.

The recipe requires 20 minutes of prep time and 15 minutes of cooking time. For the caramel sauce, the ingredients include salt, vanilla extract, granulated sugar, unsalted butter, water, and heavy whipping cream.

To make cinnamon apples, you require Granny Smith apples, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and lemon juice. For cinnamon whipped cream and granole the ingredients include cinnamon granola, cinnamon, heavy whipping cream, and powdered sugar.

16. Mini Pumpkin Pies

Well, there is a long list of tools needed to make this cute little pie. You require a whisk, cake release tool, rolling pin, cupcake pan, cookie cutter, and wire rack.

Pumpkin puree is one of the most important ingredients for this recipe, it has to be thick. I like to use evaporated milk instead of skim or low-fat milk.

It requires 25 minutes of prep time and 35 minutes of cooking time. Preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 40 minutes, when the crust is golden brown you are done.

The ingredients include pie crust disk, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, egg, granulated sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla extract, brown sugar, and salt. Top it up with whipped cream which can be made with a mix of heavy whipping cream, vanilla extract, and granulated sugar.

17. Pumpkin Roll

One of the best ways to get the recipe right is to use parchment paper, your pumpkin roll will be mess-free. To get the best result after making the recipe wrap it in a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

The recipe requires 10 minutes of prep time and 15 minutes of cooking time. Preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 12-15 minutes.

You need a parchment paper, a whisk, a 15×10 inch jelly roll pan, and a baking sheet. The ingredients include all-purpose flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, vanilla extract, pumpkin puree, cinnamon, eggs and salt.

For the filling use a mix of powdered sugar, vanilla extract, butter, and cream cheese. It can be made 2 days in advance so I love it more, it freezes well for 3 months.

Keep the mini pie in an airtight container in the fridge and it will be good for up to 5 days, it also freezes well for 2 months.

17 Most Popular Thanksgiving Desserts

From pumpkin cheesecake and mini pumpkin pies to pumpkin roll and cherry cheesecake dip, make the best Thanksgiving desserts

Ingredients

Caramel Apple Cheesecake
Turtle Cheeseball
Pumpkin Cheesecake

Pineapple Dream Dessert
Lemon Cream Cheese Bars
Cherry Cheesecake Dip

Caramel Pumpkin Butter Bars
Classic Pumpkin Cheesecake
Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake

Pecan Pie Cheesecake
Cheesecake Pumpkin Bars
Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake

Turtle Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pumpkin Cake
Caramel Apple Trifles

Mini Pumpkin Pies
Pumpkin Roll

Instructions

Choose your favorite Thanksgiving dessert

Gather all the ingredients and equipment
Make the recipe and enjoy Thanksgiving with your family

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