55 Easy Thanksgiving Treats and Fun Turkey Desserts
Cute and fun Thanksgiving treats! These easy holiday treats are perfect to make and share during the autumn and Thanksgiving season.
When it comes to Thanksgiving desserts, we all know about the quintessential pumpkin and pecan pie.
And don’t get me wrong, they’re delicious crowd-pleasers.
But there’s a whole world of other Thanksgiving treats out there to try!
They’re fun to serve for dessert on Thanksgiving, to take to a work potluck or Friendsgiving gathering, to send with your child to share at school, or to sell at a Fall bake sale.
I put together a list of the best Thanksgiving treats, so you have tons of inspiration for what to make.
These Thanksgiving treats include ideas for:
- Cute, bite-sized snacks
- Autumn cookies
- Muffins and cupcakes
- Apple, pumpkin, cinnamon, and maple recipes
- Kid-friendly confections
- Pastries and bars
- No-bake desserts
Okay, let’s dive into these festive Thanksgiving treats!
(🥧 Psst: Looking for more fun and tasty holiday ideas? Check out these Thanksgiving charcuterie board ideas, easy bite-size finger food appetizers, and make-ahead snacks and starters.)
Cute Thanksgiving Treats & Desserts
Terrific Turkey Cupcakes
Everyone will get such a kick out of these adorable turkey-decorated cupcakes.
They’re so fun for families with kids, work potlucks, or fundraising bake sales.
Easy Mini Pumpkin Pies
Get ready to indulge in the essence of fall with our easy mini pumpkin pies - made in a snap!
These delicious bite-sized desserts are perfect for satisfying your sweet tooth while celebrating everything you love about this magical time of year.
No Bake Thanksgiving Acorn Cookies
If you’re looking for a cute no bake Thanksgiving dessert, these Nutter Butter Acorns are it!
They take under 20 minutes to make, and look adorable on a platter.
Cute Turkey Donuts
So fun for Thanksgiving breakfast or a snack, you can easily decorate storebought donuts to look just like Thanksgiving turkeys.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Delicious Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies make for a perfect Thanksgiving dessert or treat. If you like pumpkin pie and chocolate, you’ll love these cookies!
They taste great either hot from the oven or even cold from the refrigerator.
Pumpkin Bars With Cream Cheese Frosting
Soft and perfectly spiced Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting are literally the easiest bars ever!
Best of all, they’re made in one bowl and ready in under 30 minutes.
Sour Cream Thanksgiving Sugar Cookies
Thanksgiving Sugar Cookies are a delightful combination of cream cheese frosting, sugar cookies, and festive cookie cutters.
Decorating these holiday cookies is a fun Thanksgiving activity that kids of all ages can enjoy.
Turkey Peanut Butter Cups
Turkey Peanut Butter Cups are a simple way to turn a classic peanut butter cup into a fun treat that is perfect for the Thanksgiving holiday!
There's no baking involved, and they easily transform into turkeys that are almost too cute to eat.
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars
Irresistible Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars include a buttery crust, layer of creamy cheesecake, spiced apples, and a crumble topping with caramel drizzle.
It's a perfect combination of sweet, creamy and crunchy, which will have everyone hooked from the first bite!
Painted Turkey Sugar Cookies
Painted Turkey Sugar Cookies are like edible art! Crunchy, citrus-vanilla sugar cookies are cut out in pieces, then easily assembled into 3D turkeys.
Sponge painting with food coloring to create beautiful, multi-colored feathers is fun and easy.
Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes
Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes have all the same flavors and textures of homemade pumpkin custard pie - without the crust!
This simple recipe bakes in just 30 minutes, using 100% pure pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice, and evaporated milk.
Turkey Oreo Treats
With just a few storebought ingredients, you can put together these adorable Turkey Gobbler Oreos.
They’re also a fun project to entertain the kids!
Pumpkin Biscotti
Embrace fall's warm flavors with this fun Pumpkin Biscotti recipe!
The cookies are perfectly crunchy and hold up well when dipped in a warm drink like coffee, tea, or hot apple cider.
Chocolate Bark Thanksgiving Turkeys
Adorable Chocolate Bark Turkeys make fun Thanksgiving treats for dessert or place setting gifts on your table. Wrap them in cellophane and guests can take them on the go.
Pumpkin Spice Magic Layer Bars
Magic Pumpkin Bars is an easy yellow cake mix recipe with a gooey pumpkin sweetened condensed milk center, topped with pecans, cranberries, white and dark chocolate chips, and coconut.
Pecan Pie Cheesecake Bars
Merging two delicious desserts, Pecan Pie Cheesecake Bars combines creamy cheesecake with a candied pecan pie filling and piles it on to a graham cracker crust. It’s heavenly!
Turkey Cake
Picture this: It’s Thanksgiving, and you’ve got one job - to bring a dessert.
You could go for the classic pumpkin pie, but where’s the fun in that when you can shock and awe your friends and family with a turkey-themed cake that’s so good, they’ll gobble it up!
Pumpkin Cake Balls
Pumpkin Cake Balls are cute little balls of Pumpkin Spice Cake mixed with Cream Cheese Frosting and dipped in chocolate. Best of all, it’s a no bake recipe ready in under 30 minutes.
Toffee with Pecans and Pumpkin Spice
Easy toffee gets an autumn twist with pecans and a hint of pumpkin spice. Pumpkin Spice Toffee with Pecans is perfect for fall gift giving or just to nibble as a special Thanksgiving treat.
Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats
Transform regular rice krispie treats into a Thanksgiving dessert with this Pumpkin Rice Krispie treat recipe. It’s quick and easy to make, and no one can resist these nostalgic, fun treats.
Easy Acorn Cookies
Embrace the cozy spirit of fall with adorable Acorn Cookies With just three simple ingredients—mini Nilla wafers, chocolate kisses, and butterscotch chips—these sweet little treats are a breeze to make. No baking required!
Pumpkin Fudge
Pumpkin Fudge is an amazing (and easy) fall treat that everyone will love!
The recipe consists of pumpkin pie spice combined with a touch of peanut butter for an addicting treat.
Puff Pastry Apple Roses
If you want to hear "Oh my goodness, did YOU make those?!" Puff Pastry Apple Roses are the Thanksgiving treats for you.
They look beautiful, and the apple-cinnamon-sugar flavors are perfect for Thanksgiving.
Pilgrim Hat Cookies
Step into the Thanksgiving spirit with these adorable Pilgrim Hat Cookies! Crafted from fudge-striped shortbread cookies and adorned with yellow frosting, Reese’s Miniature Cups, and mini orange M&M’s, they’ll really offer a festive touch to your holiday table.
Pumpkin Cupcakes
Pumpkin Cupcakes are fluffy, moist eggless cupcakes loaded with pure pumpkin and cinnamon! Topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting with a mild tang, this pumpkin cupcakes recipe is the perfect blend of spice and sweetness!
Turkey Oreo Balls
Kids and adults alike will love munching on these fun Turkey Oreo Balls. With just 3 ingredients, you can prep these in advance and have them ready for holiday snacking.
Chewy Apple Pie Cookies
Soft and chewy Apple Pie Cookies are packed with white chocolate chips and taste just like a warm apple pie! If you want a lighter dessert to serve, this is perfect!
Cranberry Cheesecake Brownies
Delicious Cranberry Cheesecake Brownies are the perfect combination of Fudgy Dark Chocolate Brownies and creamy & tangy cranberry cheesecake.
They are extremely easy to make and taste so delicious - truly a showstopper dessert!
Canadian Butter Tarts
Canadian Butter Tarts are a sensational treat with a crisp-but-flaky pastry shell, a slightly runny filling, and a rich caramel flavor.
Find out why these are one of Canada’s most popular desserts!
Cinnamon Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies are a cozy twist on classic chocolate chip cookies.
Packed with cinnamon-roasted pecans, molasses, and chocolate chips- these bakery-worthy cookies have a rich buttery flavor everyone will go “nuts” for!
Pecan Bars with Shortbread Crust
Change up your regular pie with these beautiful and tasty Pecan Bars!
They have all the delicious flavors your’re used to, with the ease of bite-size bars.
Pumpkin Pie Thumbprint Cookies
These adorable Pumpkin Pie Thumbprint Cookies look and taste like mini pumpkin pies!
They’re ultra buttery, easy to make and require zero chill time.
Brown Butter Apple Blondies
Brown Butter Apple Blondies are buttery and soft, bursting with apples, and drizzled with a brown butter glaze.
Rich caramel flavor, and with a hint of cinnamon, these easy blondies will be your new favorite Thanksgiving treat.
Easy Mini Pumpkin Pies
These sweet little Mini Pumpkin Pies are so simple to make!
If you are looking for a tasty bite-sized holiday dessert, these individual pumpkin pie bites are sure to impress your family and friends. Only you will know how easy they were to prepare.
Nutter Butter Turkey Cupcakes
It doesn’t get much cuter than these Nutter Butter Turkey Cupcakes. They’re a fun project, and will look adorable on your dessert table.
Sour Cream Apple Squares
Sour Cream Apple Square bars are filled with apples, a hint of cinnamon and have an amazing shortbread crust.
Slice these moist apple squares warm or at room temperature into oversized squares and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodles
Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodles are super soft and chewy and melt in your mouth.
Your house will smell amazing, and you’ll have a tasty Thanksgiving-flavored treat to munch on before or after dinner.
No Bake Candy Corn Peanut Butter Bars
Sweet Candy Corn Peanut Bars are creamy, salty and sweet all wrapped up into an easy, no bake bar.
Perfect for fall, they’re full of marshmallows, peanut butter, candy corn and butterscotch - an amazing combo of sweet and salty.
Cheesecake Stuffed Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Cookies
Indulge in the irresistible combination of warm Fall flavors with our Cheesecake Stuffed Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Cookies!
They are made with yellow box cake mix and cooked to perfection in the air fryer.
Bourbon Pecan Pie Brownies
With a bourbon chocolate brownie and gooey pecan pie filling, you will love every sweet and salty bite of these pecan pie brownies.
They are easier than baking a whole pecan pie making them a perfect Thanksgiving dessert!
Mini Pecan Chocolate Pies
Tender, flaky Mini Pecan Chocolate Pies are the perfect two-bite dessert.
Great for party trays and perfect for Thanksgiving, these deliciously buttery easy mini pecan pies have all the flavors you love about traditional pecan pie in a little bite.
Gingersnap Pumpkin Cupcakes with Marshmallow Frosting
With flavors like a Fall s’more, Gingersnap Pumpkin Cupcakes are chock full of holiday flavor and a delicious marshmallow frosting.
Gingersnap cookies meet pumpkin spice meets marshmallow - what’s not to love?!
Pumpkin-Filled Cheesecake Cookies
Pumpkin-Filled Cheesecake Cookies are basically the perfect fall dessert. These soft cream cheese cookies have a creamy pumpkin cheesecake filling and buttery graham cracker topping. They're basically pumpkin cheesecakes in cookie form!
Pretzel Turkey Thanksgiving Treats
These scrumptious Pretzel Turkey Thanksgiving Treats are a delightful fusion of salty and sweet.
Crispy, golden-brown pretzels cradle rich, velvety chocolate, adorned with vibrant, colorful "feathers", creating an irresistible, festive snack!
Caramel Apple Cookies
Caramel Apple Cookies are soft, chewy cookies with brown sugar, buttery caramel, and sweet-tart apple.
All of the delicious flavors of caramel apples, in cookie form.
Pumpkin Bread With Cinnamon Sugar Topping
You probably have all the ingredients for this Pumpkin Bread already in your pantry, and it doesn’t take long to throw together.
Best of all, it makes 2 loaves, so you can stick one in the freezer, or give it to the hostess or a guest for breakfast the next day.
Mini Caramel Apple Cheesecakes with Streusel Topping
Serve up these Mini Caramel Apple Cheesecakes with streusel topping and lap up the praise!
They look so cute, and everyone is going to love these tasty cheesecake bites - the perfect autumn treat.
Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Pumpkin Sugar Cookies are sweet, super soft and chewy eggless sugar cookies with a mild pumpkin flavor throughout.
Topped with a maple glaze drizzle, they’re also gluten free, nut free, easily vegan and only require 30 minutes of chilling.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Blondies
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Blondies are thick, moist, and fudgy.
Full of warm spiced pumpkin flavor and studded with chocolate chips, they only need one bowl and are ready in just 35 minutes.
Maple-Bourbon Pecan Pie Puffs
If you love pecan pie this time of year, you’ll go wild for these Maple Pecan Pie Puffs.
They're the easiest way to serve up that amazing pecan pie flavor without the hassle of a pie crust.
Pumpkin Pie in a Cup
Pumpkin Pie in a Cup is an easy recipe for no-bake pumpkin pie in an adorable mason jar or cup.
It's a fun way to give everyone their very own pumpkin pie and great recipe for the holidays.
Cinnamon Roll Muffins
Craving a cinnamon roll without all the work? Cue these cinnamon roll muffins!
Everything you love about a cinnamon roll is packed into these fluffy, tender muffins that are ready in under one hour.
Perfect for Thanksgiving breakfast!
Pecan Pumpkin Bars with Crumble Topping
Pumpkin pie in bar form! These bars have a pumpkin pie like filling, with a layer of pecans, between a crust and crumble topping.
Cinnamon Walnut Apple Bars
Cinnamon Walnut Apple Bars are a quick and easy, spiced fall apple dessert with a nutty spiced oatmeal streusel topping and simple glaze that’s irresistible.
Buttery, nutty and lightly sweet, they make a perfect afternoon pick me up.
Easy Maple Pumpkin Turnovers
These amazing Maple Pumpkin Turnovers are a wonderful breakfast or dessert treat.
Perfect for Thanksgiving morning or dessert, you’ll be gobbling up the leftovers (if there are any!) all weekend long.
Ready to try some of these Thanksgiving treats?
I hope this list of cute and fun Thanksgiving sweet treats has given you lots of ideas for what to serve or bring to your next holiday gathering.
From cookies and cupcakes, to no-bake treats, and dessert bars, there’s something for everyone!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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