After spending half the day preparing Thanksgiving dinner, the last thing you want is a dessert that takes just as much work. But you still want to serve something that looks special and gets everyone excited for dessert. The good news is that you don't need fancy decorating skills or complicated recipes to pull that off. These easy Thanksgiving desserts look impressive without adding more work to an already busy day.
Poached Pears
Slowly simmered in a sweet syrup infused with cinnamon, cloves, and orange peel, these easy poached pears are the perfect elegant but simple dessert for your next gathering! They can be served hot or cold as a dessert or as part of another sweet or savory dish. It's an impressively quick and easy 20-minute recipe that can be made with or without alcohol!
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No-Bake Apple Pie
You will love this easy, no-bake apple pie with Graham cracker crust. This 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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Pear Galette
This incredibly delicious fall pear galette is the perfect dessert to welcome the colder weather. It has a rich, buttery, rustic crust layered with perfectly spiced, tender poached pears. Finished with crunchy roasted walnuts, this easy dessert is a fall favorite.
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Cinnamon Apple Cake
This easy cinnamon apple cake is just what you need to bring your dessert table to life this fall! It has a moist cinnamon cake layer topped with fresh apples and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar for the perfect finishing touch. You can serve it with a hot cup of coffee or tea as a sweet breakfast!
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Pear Puff Pastry Tarts
Made with fresh pears and a flaky, sweet puff pastry crust, these pear puff pastry tarts will undoubtedly be the talk among your family and friends! Using just six basic ingredients, this 10-step easy pear tart recipe is the perfect go-to when you need a simple yet eye-catching treat to impress your guests. Serve them warm with a bowl of vanilla ice cream for the perfect puff pastry dessert!
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Apple Roses with Puff Pastry
If you have been looking for an elegant treat to add to your fall dessert table, these easy apple roses with puff pastry are just what you have been looking for! Made with fresh apples, cinnamon, sugar, and a light, flaky puff pastry crust, this dessert is not only eye-catching but also mouthwateringly delicious.
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Triple Chocolate Cake
Chocolate lovers will adore this triple chocolate cake recipe, featuring a mouthwatering chocolate sponge cake, creamy chocolate whipped ganache frosting, and a decadent chocolate ganache drip. Perfect for birthdays, holidays, and after-dinner desserts, this easy-to-make homemade three-layer cake will quickly become a favorite for anyone who tries it!
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Apple Galette
This easy apple galette has a buttery, flaky pie crust filled with tender cinnamon apples, finished with a drizzle of apple caramel made from the drained apple juices. Granny Smith apples for their tartness and structure, a cream-cheese dough that folds without cracking, long apple slices arranged in overlapping layers that hold their shape in the oven, and an apple caramel made from the drained filling juices that gets drizzled over the top at the end.
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Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cakes with Maple Glaze
These delicious mini pumpkin bundt cakes with maple glaze are the perfect quick and easy individual-size dessert to get your holiday season started this year! Packed with perfectly spiced pumpkin and topped with a divine buttery maple glaze, they are moist, tender, and yummy!
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Puff Pastry Pumpkin Turnovers
If you're looking for an easy and quick dessert, then you will love these puff pastry pumpkin turnovers! Crunchy and flaky on the outside and sweet and creamy on the inside, these warm pumpkin treats are super easy to make.
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Pumpkin Hand Pies
With a creamy pumpkin filling and a buttery, flaky crust, these adorable pumpkin hand pies are a fun and easy addition to your fall dessert table. They are an easy and portable alternative to the traditional pumpkin pie.
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Almond Pear Cake
This single-layer cake is loaded with almond flavor and juicy pears, and you'll be amazed at how easy it is! The cinnamon and orange zest-infused poached pears blend perfectly with a moist and delicious cake packed with almond, vanilla, and cardamom.
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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie
Pie season is here, and this easy pumpkin cream cheese pie is a dessert dream. Rich and smooth pumpkin cheesecake, blended with the flavors of traditional pumpkin pie. The fall-flavored cream cheese recipe is so delicious, and the contrasting textures make it extra special and indulgent.
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Chocolate Tiramisu
This easy chocolate tiramisu is pure bliss for chocolate lovers! It's made with coffee-soaked ladyfingers layered with a luscious chocolate mascarpone cream that blends rich cocoa powder and smooth melted chocolate.
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Cranberry Pie With Woven Lattice Crust
Cranberry pie, made with fresh cranberries and a lattice top crust, is the perfect easy holiday dessert to whip up using only six ingredients. Tart cranberries are drenched in a cranberry filling infused with fresh orange juice, organic sugar, and vanilla extract, then scooped into a double-crust pie, resulting in a delicious cranberry pie that you’ll make again and again.
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Pumpkin Bundt Cake
This pumpkin bundt cake features all the delicious flavors of fall. With a delightful and beautiful bundt cake packed with flavors like pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, and an easy icing to finish it off, this will be a staple for autumn desserts.
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Sweet Potato Pie
This Southern sweet potato pie is incredibly easy to make with simple ingredients and warm, comforting spices. It’s guaranteed to be your favorite fall and Thanksgiving dessert recipe. You can make this recipe with store-bought pie crust or go all out with homemade pie crust – you can’t go wrong with either option.
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Apple Crisp Without Oats
An easy apple crisp recipe without oats for those who love the classic fall dessert but prefer a crunchy, buttery topping that doesn't include oatmeal. With tender, juicy apples and a sweet, crumbly topping, this quick and easy dessert is packed with fall flavor and a total crowd-pleaser!
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Pecan Tart Recipe with Vanilla Cream
This modern pecan tart recipe, paired with vanilla cream, is a stunning dessert. Less traditional than the classic American Pecan pie, but still featuring a multitude of flavors, this tart boasts a sweet pastry crust, a pecan filling, whole pecan nuts, a creamy caramel, and a delicate diplomat cream.
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Apple Ginger Cake
Pretty as a picture, this apple ginger cake is everything you never knew you needed this fall. Golden, silky apples top the perfect, simple sponge cake. Fruit-topped cakes always look so beautiful! While this old-fashioned recipe looks incredibly impressive, it is so easy to make. A German apple cake inspires it, and it always makes an easy coffee cake or an afternoon snack.
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