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15 Thanksgiving-worthy desserts for your holiday celebrations. They can be made ahead and are incredibly delicious!
Thanksgiving is right around the corner! These are some of our favorite holiday-worthy dessert recipes. We love the traditional pumpkin and pecan pies at Thanksgiving, but it's also fun to add something a little different.
If you're looking for inspiration, we've got you covered! There are cakes, tarts, pies and more. And don't miss our favorite trick for making store-bought pie crust taste like homemade. Let us know what you're making this year.
Homemade Store-Bought Pie Crusts
If you don't have the time (or desire) to make a from-scratch pie crust we've some great tricks for making homemade store-bought pie crusts. Translated, that means so beautiful and delicious, no one will know!
Annie's Easy Apple Pie
This Easy Apple Pie makes a fabulous dessert for holidays, dinner parties and special occasions but it can be thrown quickly and with minimal effort. That makes it perfect for making an ordinary day quite special!
Ridiculously Easy Basque Sweet Potato Cheesecake
This fabulous Basque Sweet Potato Cheesecake comes together in minutes... give ingredients a whir in the blender, pour it into a pan, and bake, that's it! Ridiculously easy, ridiculously delicious!Â
Maple Pumpkin Pots de Crème
These make-ahead Maple Pumpkin Pots de Crème have an amazingly silky smooth texture. Each delicious bite is bursting with warm-spiced flavor - a beautiful, gourmet alternative to pie!
Sea-Salted Pumpkin Praline Tart
With a buttery press-in crust, a classic pumpkin pie filling and a sweet, crunchy pecan topping this Pumpkin Praline Tart is easier and better than pumpkin pie!
Meltaway Cookies with Pumpkin Pie Buttercream
These Meltaway Cookies with Pumpkin Pie Buttercream are easy, fun, beyond delicious and perfect for gifting with free printable gift labels!Â
Salted Butterscotch Pots de Créme
Salted Butterscotch Pots de Créme is an elegant, French-inspired, make-ahead dessert that always brings rave reviews. It's also crazy delicious!
Ridiculously Easy Pecan Pie Caramel Corn
This Ridiculously Easy, Microwave Pecan Pie Caramel Corn has all the flavor of the beloved Southern pie with sweet buttery caramel corn and crunchy glazed pecans. The free printable labels make it PERFECT for gifts!
Easy French Apple Tart
This fabulous French Apple Tart employs a store-bought pie crust for easy convenience. With ribbons of cinnamony apples and sweet cream cheese plus a magic trick for a crisp crust, this dessert is beyond delicious!
Maple-Glazed Red Pear Galette
Need an impressive fall dessert - in a hurry? This beautiful Red Pear Galette recipe is easy - yet looks like it comes from a fine bake shop!
Easy Thanksgiving Shortbread Cookies
These one-bowl, no-mixer Thanksgiving Shortbread Cookies are crisp, buttery and super delicious! They're perfect for snacks, gifts and entertaining. Each one is a work of art!
Ridiculously Easy Caramel Pecan Buttermilk Cake
This Caramel Pecan Buttermilk Cake might just be one of the easiest and most delicious cakes you'll ever make! The cake mixes up in less than 10 minutes and the fabulous pecan caramel topping won't even take that long!
Sweet Potato Pound Cake with Salted Caramel Icing
This one-bowl, no-mixer Sweet Potato Pound Cake is moist, tender and incredibly delicious! The sweet. butteru Salted Caramel Icing is the crème de la crème!
French Maple-Glazed Puff Pastry Apple Roses
These delicious French maple-glazed puff pastry apple roses are sweet, crisp and bursting with bright apple flavor. They're also easy to put together, can be made ahead and look like they came from a fine bakeshop!
Ridiculously Easy Butterscotch Glazed Pumpkin Bundt Cake
This Butterscotch Glazed Pumpkin Bundt Cake is moist, tender and bursting with warm-spiced pumpkin flavor! Add the fact that it comes together in a flash, with just one bowl and no mixer and you have a HUGE winner on your hands!
Thought for the day:
From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
no eye has seen a God besides You,
Who acts for those who wait for Him.
Isaiah 64:4
What we're listening to for inspiration:
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