11 Best Thanksgiving Desserts

If you need some delicious treats for your Thanksgiving dessert table, you’ll love this collection of tasty recipes.

From fun decorated turkey cookies to pumpkin slab pie and apple cider donut cake, these Thanksgiving dessert ideas are worth saving room for.

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Turkey Cookies

These adorable Thanksgiving cookies are so easy to decorate that even the kids can help.

This recipe uses store-bought cookie dough to save time, but a homemade recipe is also listed.

Get the Recipe: Turkey Cookies

Pumpkin Slab Pie

Pumpking slab pie in a baking sheet. — Photo Credit: Noshing with the Nolands

Once you make a pumpkin slab pie for Thanksgiving, you’ll never want to go back to baking a traditional pie again.

If you’re feeding many people, this slab pie yields 24 servings, which is way more than a traditional pie.

Get the Recipe: Pumpkin Slab Pie

Apple Cider Donut Bundt Cake

Apple cider bundt cake on a white background. — Photo Credit: Chenée Today

Hands down, it is one of the best Thanksgiving desserts you’ll ever try. This bundt cake tastes just like an apple cider donut.

Get the Recipe: Apple Cider Donut Bundt Cake

Pumpkin Brownies

These pumpkin cheesecake-swirled brownies will be your favorite Thanksgiving indulgence. This recipe is so simple to make and uses a boxed brownie mix.

Get the Recipe: Pumpkin Brownies

Cranberry Tartlets

Cranberry tarts with sugared cranberry garnish. — Photo Credit: xoxoBella

Everything in this recipe is made from scratch, from the fresh cranberry curd filling to the crust. Garnishing with sugared cranberries is a beautiful touch.

Get the Recipe: Cranberry Tartlets

Pumpkin Pie Dump Cake

If you’re all about easy desserts, you must make this pumpkin pie dump cake. The cream cheese icing is heavenly!

Get the Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Dump Cake

Caramel Apple Pie Cookies

Apple pie cookies on a white background. — Photo Credit: Princess Pinky Girl

We’re obsessed with these cookies that look like little apple pies. They’re filled with canned apple pie filling, yum!

Get the Recipe: Caramel Apple Pie Cookies

Sweet Potato Pie

Made with homemade or store-bought pie crust, this sweet potato pie will have everyone at your Thanksgiving table going back for seconds. It’s made with sweet potatoes, spices, brown sugar and more.

Get the Recipe: Sweet Potato Pie

Crumbl Copycat Pumpkin Pie Cookies

Crumbl Pumpkin Pie Cookies topped with chipped cream and pumpkin pie on a wood background. — Photo Credit: Artsy Fartsy Mama

These taste just like Crumbl’s pumpkin pie cookies and are way cheaper to make. We love that they look like little pumpkin pies!

Get the Recipe: Crumbl Copycat Pumpkin Pie Cookies

Cranberry Walnut Apple Slab Pie

Adding cranberries and walnuts is a tasty variation to traditional apple pie. The brown sugar crumble topping will have you eating every last crumb off your plate.

Get the Recipe: Cranberry Walnut Apple Slab Pie