Best Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes
The Best Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes on Hummingbird High
If you’re looking for the best Thanksgiving dessert recipes, you’re in luck! I’ve scoured my recipe archive for the best pies, cheesecakes, and other showstopping desserts so YOU don’t have to. There’s something here for everybody—I’ve even included other bakes like brunch items and dinner rolls to get you baking this Thanksgiving!
Best Thanksgiving Pie Recipes
15-Minute Stand Mixer Pie Crust Recipe
This all butter pie crust recipe makes a buttery, flaky, and crispy 9-inch double pie crust using a stand mixer! Learn how to make pie crust with this easy, foolproof technique in this post complete with a video, detailed photos, tips and tricks, and FAQs.
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The Elevated Libby’s Pumpkin Pie Recipe
This is the Libby's Famous Pumpkin Pie recipe on the back of a Libby's 100% Pumpkin Puree can, but made better with some easy pie baking tricks I've learned over the years! With its super smooth texture and subtly spiced filling, this recipe is the dictionary definition of a Thanksgiving pumpkin pie!
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Chocolate Chess Pie Recipe
This chocolate chess pie recipe has both chocolate and cocoa powder, resulting in a gooey, brownie-like filling baked in an all-butter pie crust.
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Black Bottom Chocolate Pecan Pie Recipe
This black bottom chocolate pecan pie is filled with a layer of dark chocolate ganache topped with gooey brown sugar pecan filling!
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My Best Easy Vegan Pumpkin Pie Recipe
My best easy vegan pumpkin pie recipe is made with a coconut milk based pumpkin custard in a store bought vegan pie crust! The recipe comes together SO quickly—the custard comes together in less than 5 minutes!
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Perfectly Smooth and Tangy Cream Cheese Pumpkin Pie
The cream cheese in this cream cheese pumpkin pie recipe makes the filling extra smooth and tangy, just like New York cheesecake! Grab the recipe in the post, along with tips, tricks, and process photos on how to make it.
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Pre Baked Pie Crust Recipe
Pre baking your pie crust is the easiest way to guarantee a crispy pie crust with no soggy bottoms.
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Best Unique Thanksgiving Recipes
6 Inch Cheesecake Recipe
This 6 inch cheesecake recipe makes a mini version of classic, New York style cheesecake! Despite its smaller size, this cheesecake still packs a punch with three layers: buttery graham cracker crust, dense and creamy cream cheese filling, and tart and tangy sour cream topping.
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Bread Pudding with Brown Butter Bourbon Sauce
This bread pudding with bourbon sauce recipe layers the bread pudding with multiple layers of bourbon sauce, resulting in a super flavorful pudding with a sugar crust!
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Perfectly Light and Airy Burnt Basque Cheesecake Recipe
This post will teach you how to make perfectly light and airy burnt basque cheesecake. This detailed guide is full of tips, tricks, and FAQs to help you succeed at making this lighter-than-New-York-style cheesecake. The best part? The recipe doesn't require a water bath; it really is one of the easiest cheesecake recipes you'll ever make!
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Easy and Classic Tiramisu Recipe
This no bake tiramisu recipe is the classic Italian dessert made with espresso soaked ladyfingers and mascarpone pudding.
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Creme Brulee Without Torch Recipe
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Small Batch Pumpkin Muffins Recipe
This small batch pumpkin muffin recipe makes super light, moist, and fluffy pumpkin muffins! The recipe makes only 4 muffins with tall domed sugar tops.
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Maple Pecan Muffins Recipe
These quick and easy maple pecan muffins are extra flavorful thanks to ingredients like pecan flour and maple syrup (in BOTH the batter and glaze).
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Pumpkin Chai Bread Recipe
This pumpkin chai bread recipe has a unique sugar top and is light, moist, and flavored with chai spices like cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, clove, and nutmeg.
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Small Batch Pecan Sticky Buns Recipe
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Small Batch Cranberry Orange Muffins Recipe
This small batch recipe makes only FOUR cranberry orange muffins! Each small batch cranberry orange muffin has a signature sparkling, sugary domed muffin top. The sponge is packed with lots of orange flavor, thanks to both fresh orange zest and orange juice soaked dried cranberries in the batter.
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Small Batch Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin Recipe
These pumpkin cream cheese muffins are soft, moist, and filled with lots of swirls of cream cheese! The recipe is small batch and only makes 6 delicious muffins.
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Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls
These apple pie cinnamon rolls are a cross between two classic desserts: apple streusel pie and cinnamon rolls! The rolls are filled with butter, sugar, and cinnamon, as well as apples that are pre-cooked in even more cinnamon and butter. The recipe then instructs you to top each roll with sour cream glaze and crunchy pie streusel.
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My Best Dutch Baby Pancake Recipe
My best Dutch baby pancake recipe makes a tall, puffy pancake similar to a popover! The pancake is baked in a cast-iron skillet, comes together in less than 5 minutes, and doesn’t require any fancy equipment like a stand mixer or a blender.Â
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Best Thanksgiving Cookie Recipes
My Best Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe
My best snickerdoodle cookies recipe makes snickerdoodles that are soft yet chewy in the middle, with crispy and lightly puffed edges
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NOT CAKEY Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are NOT cakey. Instead, they are crispy on the edges, chewy and fudgy in their centers, and filled with pools of chocolate—just like your favorite chocolate chip cookies!
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3 Flavor Pumpkin Neapolitan Cookies (With Pumpkin, Chocolate, And Vanilla)
These pumpkin Neapolitan cookies have three different flavors in one cookie: pumpkin vanilla, pumpkin spice, and chocolate pumpkin! The cookies are made with one chewy, buttery, pumpkin sugar cookie base.
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Snickerdoodle Recipe Without Cream of Tartar
This snickerdoodle recipe makes snickerdoodles that are soft and chewy in the middle, yet crispy and lightly puffed around the edges. The best part? Unlike most traditional snickerdoodle recipes, this recipe does NOT use cream of tartar. The recipe uses baking powder instead! As a result, it's likely that you already have all the ingredients you need to make these cookies at home!
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Best Thanksgiving Dinner Roll Recipes
Soft and Fluffy Milk Bread Rolls Recipe
These soft and fluffy milk bread rolls are made with the tangzhong method (which instructs you to make a roux for the dough), creating extra soft buns.
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Salted Honey Parker House Rolls Recipe
The Parker House rolls are light, fluffy, and drenched in a generous amount of salted honey butter. The honey, sea salt, and salted butter together makes an utterly addicting salty-sweet flavor combo that works well as a side dish to almost every main!
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Small Batch Cheesy Garlic Bread Recipe
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15-Minute Stand Mixer Pie Crust Recipe
This all butter pie crust recipe makes a buttery, flaky, and crispy 9-inch double pie crust using a stand mixer! Learn how to make pie crust with this easy, foolproof technique in this post complete with a video, detailed photos, tips and tricks, and FAQs.
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Pre Baked Pie Crust Recipe
Pre baking your pie crust is the easiest way to guarantee a crispy pie crust with no soggy bottoms.
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Round-Up Of 10+ Pumpkin Dessert Recipes: Homemade Pumpkin Puree
No canned pumpkin puree? No problem. Make your own with this homemade pumpkin puree recipe (made with only 2 ingredients!), along with a round-up of the best pumpkin baking recipes!
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Best Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipes: Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice
This quick and easy pumpkin pie spice recipe uses spices already in your pantry (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves) to make pumpkin spice!
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Weeknight Baking:
Recipes to Fit your Schedule
Over the past several years of running Hummingbird High, I kept a crucial aspect of my life hidden from my readers: I had a full-time, extremely demanding job in the tech world. In my debut cookbook, Weeknight Baking, I finally reveal the secrets to baking delicious desserts on a tight schedule.
