Skip the pie this Thanksgiving and excite your palate with something new! These dessert recipes give you plenty of ideas for savoring the best of fall flavors on your holiday table.
Apple Pie Cookies

These irresistible apple pie cookies will be the talk of the table this holiday season! Made with fresh apples and a sweet, delicious apple pie filling, they will make you feel like you are eating mini apple pies (without all the hassle)! Their warm, comforting flavor makes them the perfect dessert to sweeten holiday gatherings.
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Butterscotch Pumpkin Bundt Cake
This butterscotch pumpkin bundt cake recipe features an airy and super moist pumpkin bundt cake loaded with pumpkin and your favorite fall spices. It is topped with the most delicious butterscotch sauce, which has a lovely buttery, brown sugar flavor profile. Easy and quick candied pecans are added for some extra crunchiness. This is the best thing that can happen this pumpkin season!
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Apple Crumble Muffins
These moist, delicious apple crumble muffins will be the best thing on your dessert table this fall! Fresh apple chunks are baked into a moist cinnamon muffin and topped with a crunchy, homemade crumble. They create the perfect combination of fall flavors in one bite.
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Oatmeal Craisin Cookies
This oatmeal craisin cookies recipe is the ultimate soft and chewy cookie treat to make over the holidays and beyond! Making these healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies is easy yet provides a luxurious cookie experience. The cookies are loaded with craisin, cinnamon, and brown sugar, making them wonderfully rich yet very well-balanced in sweetness.
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Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting
This incredible, moist, easy pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting is the perfect fall cake for the pumpkin season. It's a fluffy pumpkin loaf infused with aromatic fall spices you love, frosted with an easy, three-ingredient cream cheese icing that is very well-balanced in sweetness. It's also made without butter!
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Apple Crumb Cake
This moist and delicious apple crumb cake perfectly complements your breakfast or dessert table this season! Made with a cinnamon cake base and topped with a crunchy apple crumb topping and sweet apple glaze, it delivers a burst of warm fall flavor! Serve it with a cup of warm apple cider or hot chocolate.
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Pumpkin Blondies
Super gooey and chewy pumpkin blondies loaded with warm pumpkin flavor and spices are the perfect sweet snack for Fall or Thanksgiving! I love pumpkin season, and these easy pumpkin blondies with chocolate chips are a must-try for any pumpkin lovers out there. With pumpkin pie spice, chocolate chips, and hints of caramel butterscotch undertones, they might be your favorite easy Thanksgiving snack this season!
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Apple Bread Pudding
If you've been wondering what to do with that leftover bread sitting on the counter, this apple bread pudding is a delicious way to use it! Made with fresh apples, everyday bread, and warm cinnamon, this old-fashioned apple bread pudding recipe takes little effort yet packs plenty of sweet flavor. It is a delightful and comforting fall dessert with the whole family asking for seconds!
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Baked Pumpkin Spice Donuts
You are going to fall in love with these super moist and delicious baked pumpkin spice donuts, which are the perfect start to a holiday morning! They are packed with pumpkin, spiced with all the best iconic fall flavors, and coated in a simple cinnamon sugar mixture that is absolutely yummy! And because these donuts are baked and not fried, they are effectively cake donuts, which makes them a tad bit healthier and easier to make!
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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. Serve it with a bowl of vanilla ice cream or a hot cup of coffee or tea as a sweet breakfast dessert!
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Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies
Snickerdoodle pumpkin cheesecake cookies are a must-try this fall season! They are full of your favorite fall flavors—the best take on classic cookies. They are incredibly delicious and soft, with a tangy, creamy cheesecake filling—not to forget the pumpkin spice!
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Apple Roses with Puff Pastry
If you have been looking for an elegant treat to add to your 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 and flaky puff pastry crust, this dessert is not just eye-catching but mouthwateringly delicious. This super simple puff pastry apple rose recipe requires no unique ingredients or equipment.
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Cinnamon Rolls with Apple Pie Filling
Whether you serve it as breakfast casserole or as a dessert with ice cream, there's nothing quite like a sweet, soft, and fluffy cinnamon roll with apple pie filling to satisfy your sweet tooth. With this easy-to-make recipe using sweet brioche dough, delicious apples, and cream cheese icing, you can whip up your mouthwatering apple pie cinnamon rolls at home in no time.
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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! Make this super simple maple pumpkin bundt cake recipe in under an hour!
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Apple Pie Cupcakes
This apple pie cupcake recipe is so easy to make that you might just skip making apple pie this Thanksgiving! The apple pie cupcake features a brown sugar cupcake base enhanced with fall spices, apple pie filling, and a delicate whipped mascarpone frosting! These are the ultimate, easy, from-scratch cupcakes with apples to try for Thanksgiving or any time over the fall!
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Pumpkin Banana Muffins
These pumpkin banana muffins are crazy moist, with fragrant fall spices and gooey chocolate chips - the perfect snack or quick breakfast. Have you been waiting to try making homemade muffins from scratch? Now is the time! Pumpkin banana muffins are the best tall, fluffy muffins full of spiced pumpkin flavor, the perfect easy muffin recipe to try this pumpkin season.
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Apple Pie Choux Au Craquelin
This apple pie choux au craquelin (crispy cream puff) perfectly combines American apple pie and French choux pastry. A showstopper dessert that will be the star of this fall! I love how the crispy choux au craquelin bonds with the creamy homemade apple pie filling while the whipped mascarpone on top balances the flavors.
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Pumpkin Brownies
These gooey pumpkin brownies take the season's best flavors and combine them to create an unforgettable combination! Made with creamy pumpkin puree sandwiched between fudgy brownie layers, they are the perfect fall treat for all ages.
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Spiced Apple Cake
This spiced apple cake, full of deep apple flavors, is probably the easiest and most delicious apple cake recipe to try this fall. A super moist brown sugar cake loaded with spices and apples and topped with a simple ginger apple compote is the ultimate recipe to try this time of the year. You will love it!
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Maple Donuts
Maple donuts are the cozy, sweet, and sticky treat you must try for Thanksgiving and beyond. If you love maple syrup, you have to make this baked maple donut recipe. It is the most delicious breakfast the whole family will look forward to in the morning! The best part? Maple glazed donuts are actually really simple to make and take less than 30 minutes!
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Cranberry Bundt Cake
If you love all things Fall but need a break from pumpkin-spiced flavored everything, this cranberry bunt cake is the perfect thing! The wonderful cinnamon flavor helps to underline the chocolate cranberry beautifully, and it'll stay deliciously moist from your first bit to your last.
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Brown Butter Pecan Spice Cookies
These cute little brown butter pecan spice cookies are packed with pecan pieces, the nutty flavor of browned butter, and just a hint of cinnamon and cloves.
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Brown Butter Pecan Cupcakes
These brown butter pecan cupcakes are made with nutty brown butter and topped with toasted buttered pecans! They're the perfect fall dessert!
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Maple Cookies
These maple cookies have it all - chewy cookie centers, buttery pecans, and perfectly balanced maple sweetness! Baked to golden perfection and topped with an irresistible maple glaze, these cookies offer a cozy taste of fall.
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