The ultimate guide to Easy Thanksgiving Desserts! Whether you want classics like pumpkin pie or something with a twist, we’ve got you covered!
What is the most popular dessert for thanksgiving?
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert is pie…specifically pumpkin pie. It’s a classic! Along with pumpkin pie you’ll also often find pecan pie, apple pie, cherry pie, and chocolate pie at the dessert table. If pie isn’t your thing, have no fear, we also have other festive desserts listed below!
Thanksgiving pie recipes
Mini Pumpkin Pies
These Mini Pumpkin Pies are a classic made personal-sized! Flaky pie crust is filled with a warm, creamy, and spiced pumpkin filling. Quick, easy, and perfectly portioned!
Mini Apple Pies
Mini Apple Pies are bite-sized versions of the classic American dessert, featuring flaky pastry crusts, a gooey apple filling, and an irresistible crumb topping.
Mini Pecan Pies
These Mini Pecan Pies are individual, perfectly portioned deep-dish pecan pies! Made with store-bought pie crust and brimming with a sweet, sticky, ooey-gooey, crunchy pecan filling.
Chocolate Pudding Pie
This Chocolate Pudding Pie is rich, smooth, and ultra creamy. Homemade chocolate pudding is set in a crispy Oreo pie crust, then topped with fluffy whipped cream.
Air Fryer Hand Pies
These Air Fryer Hand Pies are SO quick and easy to make. We're making 4 flavors today: S'Mores, Blueberry, Caramel Apple, and Cherry! I used store-bought crust and fillings to make this ULTRA easy, but feel free to make your own homemade crust and fillings!
Vegan Pumpkin Pie
This Vegan Pumpkin Pie has a filling that's so luxuriously creamy and perfectly spiced that nobody will guess this pie is plant based! Don't forget the dairy free whipped cream for serving.
Coconut Custard Pie
This Coconut Custard Pie is thick, creamy and absolutely packed with coconut flavor! Bonus: it's insanely easy to make!
Key Lime Pie
This Key Lime Pie Recipe has a shortbread cookie and pistachio crust and a bright, yet creamy filling made with sour cream and condensed milk!
Pumpkin desserts that aren’t pie
Maybe you absolutely love pumpkin but pumpkin pie isn’t your thing. Enter these delicious pumpkin (but not pie) desserts!
Brown Butter Pumpkin Cake
This easy Brown Butter Pumpkin Cake is light, fluffy, and topped with a buttery maple glaze; an impressive Thanksgiving dessert that's not pie!
Pumpkin Cobbler
This Pumpkin Cobbler is the best fall dessert! A creamy, perfectly spiced pumpkin pie filling is topped with a sugar cookie streusel topping and served warm with vanilla ice cream.
Crockpot Pumpkin Dump Cake
Crockpot Pumpkin Dump Cake. An easy homemade pumpkin pie filling made with pumpkin, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and salt gets topped with caramel, pecans, spice cake mix, and butter. Don't forget to serve it warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Easy Pumpkin Bars Recipe
Easy Pumpkin Bars Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting. These bars are ultra dense and full of all your favorite pumpkin pie spices! Topped with the smoothest, tangy cream cheese frosting!
No Bake Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes Recipe
These No Bake Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes are the perfect fall or holiday dessert! A simple graham cracker crust topped with a cream cheese, pumpkin, cool whip filling! Don't forget the nuts and caramel drizzle!
Vegan Pumpkin Cookies
Vegan Pumpkin Cookies with Maple Glaze. Hearty, slightly healthier pumpkin cookies made with whole wheat flour, spices, coconut oil, pumpkin, and maple syrup. Bonus: they get drizzled in the easiest vegan glaze!
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
These pumpkin cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting are my FAVE pumpkin dessert. A soft cupcake that's filled with pumpkin and spices, a cool, thick, cinnamon cream cheese frosting, and to top it off? A crunchy, sweet and salty pumpkin seed brittle! Ah-mazing.
Pumpkin Pie Dip
This Pumpkin Pie Dip Recipe comes together in a just a matter of minutes and is loaded with pumpkin purée, cream cheese, vanilla pudding mix (my secret ingredient, trust me), spices, and cool whip! Suggestions on cream cheese and cool whip substitutions below!
Pro tip
Serve this delicious and creamy pumpkin dip with my pie crust cookies!
Apple desserts that aren’t pie
Caramel Apple Dip
This Caramel Apple Dip has a fluffy cream cheese base, an ooey-gooey caramel center, and a crunchy toffee and sea salt topping – this homemade dessert dip is SO quick, easy, and delicious.
Apple Pie Cookies
These Apple Pie Cookies are like miniature hand pies. Ooey-gooey apple pie filling is sandwiched between two pieces of buttery, flaky refrigerated pie crust and then baked until golden-brown.
Crockpot Apple Cobbler
This Crockpot Apple Cobbler is the coziest Fall dessert. Tart Granny Smith apples are slow cooked into an ooey-gooey, caramel-y filling and finished off with a fluffy, yet slightly crisp topping.
Apple Cobbler
This Apple Cobbler couldn't be easier. A tart, gooey Granny Smith apple filling with a fluffy, yet crisp topping; this is the perfect Fall dessert. Don't forget the vanilla ice cream!
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Parfaits
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Parfaits. Graham cracker crumbles, easy no-bake caramel cheesecake filling, pecans, cool whip, and apple pie filling . . . This cozy fall dessert is easy AND delicious!
Apple Crumble
Cozy up to a bowl of warm Apple Crumble with vanilla ice cream! Tart Granny Smith apples baked into an ooey-gooey filling and layered with a buttery streusel topping.
Slow Cooker Caramel Apple Dump Cake Recipe
This Slow Cooker Caramel Apple Dump Cake Recipe might just be my easiest dessert recipe EVER! Just 5 ingredients and 5-minute prep and you've got a DELICIOUS ooey-gooey, Fall dessert.
Apple Crisp Recipe
This Apple Crisp Recipe has an ooey-gooey filling and is sprinkled with a crumbly toasted pecan and oat topping! A classic, family favorite dessert.
Other thanksgiving desserts
Best Puppy Chow Recipe
This is the best puppy chow recipe! Why? More chocolate, more peanut butter, more powdered sugar! This childhood classic aka muddy buddies just got better. 🙂 Plus, it uses the WHOLE box of cereal and the WHOLE bag of chocolate chips, so less measuring required!
Cornbread Cookies
These Cornbread Cookies are the best of both worlds! A tender, chewy cookie is topped with a velvety honey buttercream frosting and drizzled in extra honey.
Taylor Swift Chai Sugar Cookies
Taylor Swift Chai Sugar Cookies are perfectly spiced, melt in your mouth brown butter sugar cookies smothered in a sweet, cozy powdered sugar glaze.
Oreo Turkey Cookies
These Oreo Turkey Cookies couldn't be cuter! These cookie turkeys are quick, easy, and perfect for a kid friendly Thanksgiving activity.
Cookie Butter Puppy Chow
This Cookie Butter Puppy Chow is an addicting nut-free holiday treat that tastes like gingerbread! This no-bake snack is a Christmas twist on a classic that is loved by kids and adults alike.
Candy Corn and Peanut Snack Mix
This Candy Corn and Peanut Snack Mix is the perfect combination of sweet and salty! This addictive fall treat is made with creamy candy corn and crunchy roasted peanuts.
Slow Cooker Cherry Cobbler
This Slow Cooker Cherry Cobbler is SO quick and easy. Cherry pie filling (or filling of choice) is topped with optional pecans and cinnamon sugar biscuits!
Ritz Bits Churros
These Ritz Bits Churros are crispy, sweet, salty, and cinnamon-y. This sweet treat is easy to make and even easier to eat!
Pecan Pie Milkshake
'Tis the season for pie! Use leftovers to make this amazing Pecan Pie Milkshake. It's cozy, creamy, and loaded with butter pecan ice cream, pecan pie (homemade or store bought), caramel, and optional bourbon!
Let’s all give thanks for DESSERT!
– Jennifer
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