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Ten easy and elegant desserts perfect for Thanksgiving. These holiday-worthy desserts can be made ahead and are incredibly delicious!
Still deciding on your Thanksgiving menu? We have plenty of dessert inspiration for you today! From pies to cakes, apple to pumpkin, there is something for everyone.
Our family always saves room for dessert and we love trying new recipes. Any of these recipes would be perfect for your holiday table. Best of all you can make them all ahead, no last-minute fussing! And you can expect rave reviews from family and friends. Enjoy!
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!
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!
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!
Need a fun, delicious dessert for an upcoming fall event, or a sweet surprise for family and/or friends? This moist One-Bowl Pumpkin Cake comes together in minutes, with no mixer needed. The fabulous salted caramel icing takes it to nirvana status!
Butterscotch Pots de Créme is an elegant, French-inspired, make ahead dessert that always brings rave reviews. It's also crazy delicious!
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!
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!
This Ridiculously Easy 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!
These delicious Maple Gazed 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!
With a buttery crumble topping and a delicious pumpkin filling, this Easy Pumpkin Praline Cobbler is the perfect Fall dessert. Serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and everyone will be in pumpkin heaven!
A fabulous, silky smooth sauce with the delicious flavors of butter and brown sugar, this Easy Butterscotch Sauce is wonderful drizzled on ice cream, tarts, pies and so much more!
Thought for the day:
The LORD is my strength and my shield;
in Him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults and with my song,
I give thanks to Him.
Psalm 28:7
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If you enjoy any of these recipes, please come back and leave a star rating and review! It’s so helpful to other readers to hear your results, adaptations and ideas for variations.
Kathy Holleran says
How do you make your store-bought pie crust for custard pies? Do you fill the crust with beans before baking as some have suggested?
Thanks, Kathy
Chris Scheuer says
Hi Kathy, yes, I would suggest blind baking with beans, pie weights or metal chain for a custard pie.
Mary Anne Addison says
It would be wonderful if you would do a cookbook. Your need,or the person trying to or recipe, simple, elegant is wonderful; but for me it's your attention to detail and your desire that every cook is successful. To do this you make instructions and details clear and easy to understand and follow.
Hope you will think about a hard cover cookbook.
Blessings to you both. You are truly appreciated.
Chris Scheuer says
Thank you, Mary Anne 🥰 I really appreciate your very kind encouragement. I have thought about a cookbook and have had a few offers but, at this point in time, I feel like it would interfere with my priorities which are, my faith, family and community which includes the blog.