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

Pecan Pie Ice Cream
Florence Fabricant
105 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
105
30 minutes, plus at least 8 hours’ chilling and freezing
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Applesauce Cake With Cream Cheese and Honey Frosting
Julia Turshen
962 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
962
About 1 hour 45 minutes
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Easy
Lemon Bars With Olive Oil and Sea Salt
Melissa Clark
6868 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
6,868
1 hour 30 minutes, plus cooling and chilling
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Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Millie Peartree
714 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
714
1½ hours
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Easy
Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake
Genevieve Ko
915 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
915
1½ hours, plus chilling
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Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
Melissa Clark
2745 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,745
50 minutes, plus cooling
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Instant Pot Carrot-Saffron Risotto
Samantha Seneviratne
1204 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,204
35 minutes
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Cranberry Crumb Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
711 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
711
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Sponge Cake
Claire Saffitz
2122 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,122
50 minutes
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Pecan Pie Truffles
Tara Parker-Pope, “VegNews Holiday Cookie Collection”
4056 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
4,056
About 30 minutes, plus 2 hours' freezing
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Milk and Honey Cake
Melissa Clark, Odette Williams
1356 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,356
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Celebration Cake
Sam Sifton, Yotam Ottolenghi
866 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
866
24 hours, including freezing
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Apple Crumble
Samantha Seneviratne
6835 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
6,835
About 1 hour 10 minutes
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Puff Puff
Yewande Komolafe
250 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
250
30 minutes, plus rising
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Lane Cake
Yewande Komolafe
891 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
891
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Bakewell Tart With Cranberry Sauce
Clare de Boer
107 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
107
About 2½ hours, plus chilling
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Lemon Cakes
Priya Krishna, Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, Sariann Lehrer
905 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
905
40 minutes, plus cooling
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Banana Upside-Down Cake
Melissa Clark
250 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
250
1 hour, plus cooling
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Spicy Ginger Applesauce Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Yossy Arefi
631 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
631
1 hour, plus cooling
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Lisbon Chocolate Cake
Dorie Greenspan
4969 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
4,969
About 1 hour, plus cooling
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Galatoire’s Sweet Potato Cheesecake
R. W. Apple Jr.
764 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
764
1¼ hours, plus chilling
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Pumpkin Bundt Cake With Maple Brown-Butter Glaze
Yossy Arefi
3112 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
3,112
1½ hours, plus cooling
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Honey-Apple Bread Pudding
Melissa Clark
589 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
589
1½ hours
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New York Maple-Walnut Cheesecake
Matt Lee, Ted Lee
849 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
849
2 hours 30 minutes, plus chill time
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Pear Kuchen
Sam Sifton, Melissa Elsen, Emily Elsen
314 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
314
1 hour, plus 2 to 3 hours’ rising
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Cookies-and-Cream Pavlova
Eric Kim
722 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
722
2 ¾ hours
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Strawberry Jelly Cake
Vallery Lomas
317 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
317
1½ hours
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Warm Sweet Potato-Apple Pone
Jerrelle Guy
522 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
522
45 minutes to 1¼ hours
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Simple Bread Pudding
Mark Bittman
7520 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
7,520
45 minutes
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Easy
Alice Waters’s Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
R. W. Apple Jr.
1248 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,248
1 hour
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Pumpkin Crumb Cake
Yossy Arefi
2935 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,935
1 hour
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Apple Bourbon Bundt Cake
Melissa Clark
3390 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
3,390
1½ hours plus cooling time
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Iced Oatmeal Cookies
Jerrelle Guy
1975 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,975
35 minutes, plus cooling
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No-Bake Butterscotch Custards
Melissa Clark
1294 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,294
35 minutes, plus chilling
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Jamaican Sweet Potato Pudding
Priya Krishna, Hazel, Jessica Craig
181 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
181
1¾ hours
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Chocolate Cheesecake With Graham Cracker Crunch
Julia Moskin, the Saltry
1053 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,053
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
1314 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,314
1 hour
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Lemon-Almond Butter Cake
Regina Schrambling, Jody Adams
4392 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
4,392
2 hours 30 minutes, plus cooling time
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Instant Pot Rice Pudding
Melissa Clark
957 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
957
30 minutes, plus chilling
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Intense Chocolate Mousse Cake
Nigella Lawson
2698 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,698
1 hour 5 minutes
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Apple Gingersnap Crumble
Melissa Clark
589 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
589
About 1 hour, plus cooling
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Deluxe Cheesecake
Craig Claiborne
1812 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,812
2 hours
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Sugarplum Gingerbread Cake
Tejal Rao, Genevieve Ko
324 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
324
30 minutes, plus baking/cooling
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Sholeh Zard (Persian Rice Pudding)
Priya Krishna, Sara Mardanbigi, Edgar Rico
656 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
656
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
663 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
663
1 hour 40 minutes
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