12 Retro American Desserts to Make Your Thanksgiving More Nostalgic
Relive the good old days with these retro American desserts to your Thanksgiving dessert menu. Savor those beloved flavors with your friends and family when you make these dessert recipes for the holiday.
Pumpkin Bread With Cream Cheese Frosting
This wonderful, moist, and easy pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting is the perfect cake to enjoy during the pumpkin season. Fluffy Pumpkin Loaf infused with aromatic spices you love and frosted with an easy, 3 ingredients cream cheese icing that is very well balanced in sweetness (also made without butter!).
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Oatmeal Craisin Cookies
This oatmeal craisin cookies recipe is the ultimate soft and chewy cookie treat to make any time! Making these healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies is super easy yet provides a luxurious cookie experience. The cookies are loaded with craisin, cinnamon, and brown sugar, making them wonderfully rich yet very well-balanced in sweetness.
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Apple Turnovers
Flaky puff pastry with warm apple pie filling inside? Sign me up. Apple turnovers are a fruity puff pastry recipe that anyone can make. Create your own personal apple pie with puff pastry that you can serve on its own or with whipped cream and a dusting of cinnamon.
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Pecan Snowball Cookies
These sweet, crunchy, and buttery pecan snowball cookies are a delicious way to decorate your dessert table this holiday season! Also known as Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cookies, these snowy treats use just a handful of basic pantry staples to create a fun-shaped and eye-catching dessert that all ages will love.
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Apple Bread Pudding
If you’ve been wondering what to do with that leftover bread sitting on the counter, this apple bread pudding is a delicious way to use it! Made with fresh apples, everyday bread, and warm cinnamon, this old-fashioned apple bread pudding recipe takes little effort yet packs plenty of sweet flavor. Serve it with your favorite toppings or a bowl of vanilla ice cream for a delightful and comforting fall dessert that will have the whole family running back for seconds!
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Apple Crumb Cake
This moist and delicious apple crumb cake perfectly complements your breakfast or dessert table this season! Made with a cinnamon cake base and topped with a crunchy apple crumb topping and sweet apple glaze, it delivers a burst of warm fall flavor! Serve it with a cup of warm apple cider or hot chocolate.
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Cinnamon Apple Babka
This cinnamon apple babka features sweet apples and cinnamon filling twisted inside the rich and buttery yeasted dough. It is extra moist and crazy delicious. This is the best cinnamon babka recipe with apple filling. It is a wonderful, comforting dessert for fall but perfect all year round.
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Apple Hand Pies
There is only one thing better than apple pie: apple hand pies! They’re easier to make than full-size apple pie, and there’s no need to share! Looking for the best apple pie recipe that is flaky, creamy, and super easy to make? This is it!
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Cinnamon Apple Cake
This easy cinnamon apple cake is just what you need to bring your dessert table to life this fall! It has a moist cinnamon cake layer topped with fresh apples and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar for the perfect finishing touch. Serve it with a bowl of vanilla ice cream or a hot cup of coffee or tea as a sweet breakfast dessert!
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Pumpkin Streusel Bread
When you thought your fall dessert table couldn’t get any better, this moist pumpkin streusel bread steals the show! With a moist pumpkin bread base, crunchy streusel topping, and sweet glaze, one slice will certainly not be enough!
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Puff Pastry Pumpkin Turnover
Puff pastry pumpkin turnovers are a quick and easy dessert that everyone at your Thanksgiving Dinner table will love. Crunchy and flaky on the outside and sweet and creamy on the inside, these warm pumpkin treats are irresistible and super easy to make.
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Pecan Upside Down Cake
This exceptional pecan upside down cake is a perfect dessert. The excellent harmony of moist yogurt cake as the base and caramelized pecan topping! The cake can be made in any pan you have, even in a Bundt pan, to turn it into a festive Pecan Upside Down Bundt cake for any occasion!
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