Out of all the major holidays, Thanksgiving is the one that revolves around food the most. After all, what better way is there to celebrate what we’re thankful for than by gathering around a table with friends and family and digging into a huge feast?
The main part of the Thanksgiving meal is all well and good (depending on whether you love turkey or not), but for us, Thanksgiving dinner isn’t Thanksgiving dinner without Thanksgiving dessert!
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What Desserts Do You Eat on Thanksgiving?
We all know the classic Thanksgiving desserts – pumpkin pie, apple pie, maybe sweet potato pie in the South. If we’re lucky, they come from a local bakery, but, more often than not, they’re afterthoughts picked up from the supermarket along with the boxed stuffing mix and canned cranberry sauce. And that’s a shame!
America’s best autumn pies, cakes, and more desserts are shipping straight to your door in time for Thanksgiving. These come straight from some of the most beloved bakeries and pastry chefs in America, and they’re going to knock your guests’ socks off!
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Top Thanksgiving Desserts
Flour Shop’s Thanksgiving Cake Balls
Sculptor and cake artist Amirah Kassem has created one of the cutest confections that we are so grateful for. Whether you order 1 or 2 dozen of her Thanksgiving cake balls, you will get them in three fab flavors: Chocolate, Cookie Dough, and Vanilla and decorated to look like mini pumpkins and adorned in festive fall colors.
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The PieCaken Shop’s PieCaken
It’s the Thanksgiving dessert to end all Thanksgiving desserts! From famed pastry chef Zac Young, The PieCaken is four desserts in one, all stacked together: pecan pie on the bottom, pumpkin pie in the middle, and spice cake on top, all layered together with cinnamon buttercream and topped with apple pie filling!
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Brown Sugar Bakery’s Caramel 4-Layer Cake
Since 2002, Stephanie Hart has been baking up a taste of the South in the Windy City. Her Southern-style cakes, such as her 6 lb. Caramel 4-Layer Cake, are the talk of the town. Four layers of yellow cake are drenched in buttery, creamy caramel. Need we say more?
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Michele’s Pies’ Maple Pumpkin Pie With Pecan Streusel
Every pie is made by hand at Michele Stuart’s eponymous gourmet pie shop in Norwalk, Connecticut. To make their famous Maple Pumpkin Pie With Pecan Streusel, they purée fresh pumpkin and add Vermont maple syrup and cream to give the filling a rich and creamy texture. It’s then poured into a flaky old-fashioned pie crust and topped with a generous layer of pecans dusted with brown sugar and cinnamon.
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The Village Bakery’s Mountain Apple Stack Cake
Apple Stack Cakes were originally used as wedding cakes in the Appalachian Mountains. Each invited family would bake a layer of the cake, adding it to the base as they arrived on the day of the wedding with the bride’s family providing the filling. Using an old family recipe, The Village Bakery uses 100% Tennessee green apples from orchards located only a few miles from the Smoky Mountains to make their classic Apple Stack Cake. They hand peel, slice, and cook the apples, spicing them with traditional Appalachian spices before spreading them between the numerous layers of moist cake.
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East Side Cheesecakes’ “The Apple of My Third Eye” Apple Pie Cheesecake
This is the perfect Thanksgiving cheesecake! A cinnamon sugar graham cracker base is topped with a creamy cheesecake center made with handmade buttermilk cream cheese, topped off with tart brown sugar apple pie filling, and finished with a crunchy oat crisp. It comes with a bottle of homemade bourbon Tipsy Caramel Sauce for you to drizzle all over the top!
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We Take the Cake’s Pumpkin Maple Cinnamon Bundt Cake
This Pumpkin Maple Bundt Cake features the seasonal flavors of earthly pumpkin purée, allspice, and warm cinnamon. Adorn it with the included maple cinnamon cream cheese frosting to perfect this delicious and satisfying dessert.
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Nikki J’s Cakes’ Sweet Potato Thang
When Nikki J first made sweet potato pie, it wasn’t even on the menu at her Rowlett, Texas, bakery. A customer requested a sweet potato pie, so she whipped up a creamy, velvety sweet potato pie in a graham cracker crust. Soon customers started asking for that “thang” and Sweet Potato Thang was born.
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Splash Cafe’s Chocolate Thanksgiving Cake
The low-key Splash Cafe first opened its doors just steps from the Pismo Beach Pier in Pismo Beach, California, in 1989, and since 1991 it’s been run by Joanne Currie and her husband Ross, who turned it into a certified local landmark. This frosted Chocolate Thanksgiving Cake is specially decorated for Thanksgiving, and topped with mini pumpkin pie slices!
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Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa’s Carrot Cake
From none other than Ina Garten herself, this 6-in. carrot cake is made with plenty of freshly-grated carrots and a hint of cinnamon. It’s studded with juicy raisins and crunchy walnuts. The creamy frosting is enriched by Italian mascarpone and cream cheese, and it’s topped off with a touch of candied ginger!
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Duff Goldman’s Pumpkin Spice Cake
From Food Network star and “Ace of Cakes” Duff Goldman, this beautiful 4-layer Pumpkin Spice Cake has vanilla cream cheese filling and frosting. In true Goldman fashion, it’s whimsically decorated with frosting pumpkins on the top and a pumpkin crumb layer on the side!
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JARS By Dani’s Thanksgiving Mini Cake Jars
This Thanksgiving, every guest can get their very own mini cake jar! Flavors include Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake, Cookie Dough, Fudge Brownie, Brown Butter Pumpkin, and Cinnamon Spice Cake, and they’re all decked out for the holiday.
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Blue Owl Bakery’s Levee High Caramel Pecan Apple Pie
This might just be the most stunning apple pie of all time! Founded in the historic town of Kimmswick, Missouri, by Mary Hostetter in 1983, Blue Owl Bakery is most famous for this Levee High Apple Pie. The towering beehive-shaped pie is made with 18 Golden Delicious apples piled high in a made-from-scratch crust. Bake the pie at home, and cover it with caramel sauce loaded with pecans!
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The Nuns Of New Skete’s Pumpkin Cheesecake
This small monastery in upstate New York is producing what many believe to be the finest cheesecakes in the country, all made by hand by the sisters. If you like pumpkin, you will love this Pumpkin Cheesecake, baked in a crust of heavenly ginger and pumpkin-spiced crumbs.
This article originally appeared on Goldbelly.com and was syndicated by MediaFeed.org
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