Editors’ Collection

Thanksgiving Desserts

We have plenty of Thanksgiving dessert recipes for the pie lovers (and the pie averse), like apple pie, cheesecake, pumpkin pie, cookies and more. Discover more Thanksgiving ideas in our best Thanksgiving recipes collection.

A side shot of an apple pie bar, with another bar in the background. — Linda Xiao for The New York Times

Recipes

Applesauce Cake With Cream Cheese and Honey Frosting
Julia Turshen
956 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
956
About 1 hour 45 minutes
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Easy
Lemon Bars With Olive Oil and Sea Salt
Melissa Clark
6771 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
6,771
1 hour 30 minutes, plus cooling and chilling
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Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Millie Peartree
701 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
701
1½ hours
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Easy
Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake
Genevieve Ko
906 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
906
1½ hours, plus chilling
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Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
Melissa Clark
2718 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,718
50 minutes, plus cooling
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Instant Pot Carrot-Saffron Risotto
Samantha Seneviratne
1187 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,187
35 minutes
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Cranberry Crumb Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
700 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
700
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Sponge Cake
Claire Saffitz
2114 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,114
50 minutes
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Pecan Pie Truffles
Tara Parker-Pope, “VegNews Holiday Cookie Collection”
3908 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
3,908
About 30 minutes, plus 2 hours' freezing
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Milk and Honey Cake
Melissa Clark, Odette Williams
1349 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,349
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Celebration Cake
Sam Sifton, Yotam Ottolenghi
864 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
864
24 hours, including freezing
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Apple Crumble
Samantha Seneviratne
6696 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
6,696
About 1 hour 10 minutes
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Puff Puff
Yewande Komolafe
249 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
249
30 minutes, plus rising
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Lane Cake
Yewande Komolafe
890 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
890
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Bakewell Tart With Cranberry Sauce
Clare de Boer
105 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
105
About 2½ hours, plus chilling
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Lemon Cakes
Priya Krishna, Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, Sariann Lehrer
899 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
899
40 minutes, plus cooling
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Banana Upside-Down Cake
Melissa Clark
249 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
249
1 hour, plus cooling
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Spicy Ginger Applesauce Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Yossy Arefi
614 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
614
1 hour, plus cooling
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Lisbon Chocolate Cake
Dorie Greenspan
4903 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
4,903
About 1 hour, plus cooling
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Galatoire’s Sweet Potato Cheesecake
R. W. Apple Jr.
751 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
751
1¼ hours, plus chilling
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Pumpkin Bundt Cake With Maple Brown-Butter Glaze
Yossy Arefi
3051 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
3,051
1½ hours, plus cooling
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Honey-Apple Bread Pudding
Melissa Clark
582 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
582
1½ hours
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New York Maple-Walnut Cheesecake
Matt Lee, Ted Lee
840 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
840
2 hours 30 minutes, plus chill time
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Pear Kuchen
Sam Sifton, Melissa Elsen, Emily Elsen
313 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
313
1 hour, plus 2 to 3 hours’ rising
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Cookies-and-Cream Pavlova
Eric Kim
717 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
717
2 ¾ hours
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Strawberry Jelly Cake
Vallery Lomas
316 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
316
1½ hours
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Warm Sweet Potato-Apple Pone
Jerrelle Guy
520 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
520
45 minutes to 1¼ hours
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Simple Bread Pudding
Mark Bittman
7414 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
7,414
45 minutes
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Easy
Alice Waters’s Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
R. W. Apple Jr.
1201 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,201
1 hour
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Pumpkin Crumb Cake
Yossy Arefi
2813 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,813
1 hour
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Apple Bourbon Bundt Cake
Melissa Clark
3328 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
3,328
1½ hours plus cooling time
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Iced Oatmeal Cookies
Jerrelle Guy
1853 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,853
35 minutes, plus cooling
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No-Bake Butterscotch Custards
Melissa Clark
1292 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,292
35 minutes, plus chilling
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Jamaican Sweet Potato Pudding
Priya Krishna, Hazel, Jessica Craig
180 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
180
1¾ hours
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Chocolate Cheesecake With Graham Cracker Crunch
Julia Moskin, the Saltry
1041 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,041
2 hours
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Edna Lewis’s Spiced Pears
Francis Lam, Edna Lewis
135 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
135
1 hour, plus 6 hours for cooling
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Banana Pudding
Sam Sifton
1308 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,308
1 hour
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Lemon-Almond Butter Cake
Regina Schrambling, Jody Adams
4365 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
4,365
2 hours 30 minutes, plus cooling time
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Instant Pot Rice Pudding
Melissa Clark
936 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
936
30 minutes, plus chilling
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Intense Chocolate Mousse Cake
Nigella Lawson
2638 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,638
1 hour 5 minutes
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Apple Gingersnap Crumble
Melissa Clark
588 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
588
About 1 hour, plus cooling
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Deluxe Cheesecake
Craig Claiborne
1797 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,797
2 hours
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Sugarplum Gingerbread Cake
Tejal Rao, Genevieve Ko
320 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
320
30 minutes, plus baking/cooling
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Sholeh Zard (Persian Rice Pudding)
Priya Krishna, Sara Mardanbigi, Edgar Rico
655 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
655
1½ hours
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Blotkake (Norwegian Cream Cake)
Julia Moskin, Maren Waxenberg
434 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
434
1 hour, plus cooling
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No-Bake Cheesecake With Caramelized Pineapple and Coconut
Yewande Komolafe
210 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
210
1 hour, plus chilling
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Persimmon Pudding
Ligaya Mishan, Alverta S. Hart
650 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
650
1 hour 40 minutes
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Dora Charles’s Lost-and-Found Lemon Poundcake
Kim Severson, Dora Charles
453 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
453
1½ hours
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