12 Showstopping Thanksgiving Desserts That Will Make You a Legandary Host This Year
We’ve gathered a list of show-stopping desserts that will impress your family and friends this Thanksgiving. While the all-time favorites are a go-to choice for many households, you’re sure to have everyone talking about your dessert spread with these next-level recipes!
Apple Pie Cupcakes
This apple pie cupcake recipe is so easy to make that you might just skip making apple pie this Thanksgiving! The apple pie cupcake features a brown sugar cupcake base enhanced with fall spices, apple pie filling, and a delicate whipped mascarpone frosting! These are the ultimate, easy, from-scratch cupcakes with apples to try for Thanksgiving or any time over the fall!
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Baklava Cheesecake
This delicious baklava cheesecake recipe is a must-try for baklava and cheesecake lovers. It’s the rich and creamy flavor of a traditional cheesecake wrapped in a nutty phyllo crust drizzled in honey and rosewater syrup. What’s more, it’s effortless to make!
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Pumpkin Pie with Sweetened Condensed Milk
Look out, pie season; this delicious pumpkin pie with sweetened condensed milk takes center stage. With its super buttery, flaky crust, creamy custard-like filling, and yummy mascarpone frosting decoration, this pie is going to steal the show! Using condensed milk to sweeten the filling makes it easy to make, creating a pumpkin filling that tastes divine, almost like pumpkin creme brulee.
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Chocolate Hazelnut Tart
This silky chocolate hazelnut tart is an easy, quick, and super delicious dessert for chocolate and hazelnut lovers! It requires minimal effort—you do not have to turn the oven on! The tart recipe makes a silky, creamy, decadent chocolate hazelnut dessert that everyone will enjoy. As rich as it is, this tart is also balanced in sweetness without added sugar, so we can call it healthy!
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Double Layer Pumpkin Pie
With a mousse-like consistency and crunchy graham cracker crust, this no bake double layer pumpkin pie will knock your holiday socks off this year! This divine dessert comprises a homemade biscuit crumb crust filled with layers of yummy light, airy cream cheese, and pumpkin pie fillings topped with a lightly sweetened cream cheese decoration. This layered pumpkin pie is refined and impressive but ridiculously easy to make!
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Pecan Upside Down Cake
This exceptional pecan upside down cake is a perfect dessert for Fall or Thanksgiving. It’s an 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 Thanksgiving!
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Chocolate Hazelnut Macarons
Chocolate hazelnut macarons are a dream for chocolate and hazelnut lovers. They are in a lovely, bite-sized French macaron format. The macarons are filled with silky chocolate ganache and hazelnut paste, with the most delicious natural nutty flavor. These creamy, crunchy, chewy chocolate hazelnut macarons are the ultimate afternoon tea snack that will impress everyone!
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No Bake Apple Pie
You will love this easy, no-bake apple pie with Graham cracker crust for Thanksgiving when you don’t feel like turning your oven on! The three-step recipe uses a simple 2-ingredient pie crust filled with delicious apples cooked to perfection in a mixture of butter and brown sugar. The entire Graham cracker crust apple pie only takes 30 minutes to make and is the perfect no-bake pie for fall!
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Butterscotch Pumpkin Bundt Cake
This butterscotch pumpkin bundt cake recipe features an airy and super moist pumpkin bundt cake loaded with pumpkin and your favorite fall spices. It is topped with the most delicious butterscotch sauce, which has a lovely buttery, brown sugar flavor profile. Easy and quick candied pecans are added for some extra crunchiness. This is the best thing that can happen this pumpkin season!
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Pumpkin Custard Pie
This is hands down the best pumpkin custard pie recipe for Thanksgiving. It features a flaky, buttery pie crust filled with silky, creamy, incredible, delicious pumpkin custard flavored with aromatic orange zest and nutmeg. This Pumpkin pie is made without evaporated milk yet super rich, smooth, and full of Fall flavors everyone loves!
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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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Apple Pie Choux Au Craquelin
This apple pie choux au craquelin (crispy cream puff) perfectly combines American apple pie and French choux pastry. A showstopper dessert that will be the star of this fall! I love how the crispy choux au craquelin bonds with the creamy homemade apple pie filling while the whipped mascarpone on top balances the flavors.
Go to the recipe: Apple Pie Choux Au Craque
