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10-photo picture collage of Fresh strawberry pie, lemon blueberry chiffon pie, chocolate pecan pie, Key lime pie, Oreo pie, apple crisp, Samoa cookie pie, pecan pie bars, cherry pie, and pumpkin pie with the text of the title overlaid and centered on the photos.

25+ Traditional Thanksgiving Desserts

9-photo picture collage of cherry cheesecake, peanut butter Oreo pie, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, Texas Sheet Cake, pumpkin slab pie, pumpkin chocolate chip cheesecake bar, berry galette, coconut cream pie, eclair dessert, and French silk pie. The title of the text is overlaid and centered on top of the photos.

25+ Simple and Easy Thanksgiving Desserts

A plate full of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

Cake Mix Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

A large round plate with sliced red and green apples with a dark blue and white polka-dotted patterned small bowl in the middle with caramel dip. Surrounding the plate are apples in the upper left corner, bottom left corner, and bottom right corner.

Caramel Apple Dip

Three quart-size jars of homemade salsa.

The Best Homemade Salsa for Canning

Three small plates with square pieces of apple sheet cake with brown butter frosting. Two whole apples are in the right bottom corner, and three forks are laid on top of each other on the left side.

Jewish Apple Sheet Cake with Brown Butter Icing

A slice of fresh peach dessert sitting on a small dark blue plate with polka dots with a fork on the plate. In the background is the edge of patterned dark blue 9x13 dish and two whole peaches.

Fresh Peach No-Bake Dessert

A strawberry rhubarb muffin on a small plate with two whole strawberries on the left. A partial picture of a plate bowl with strawberry rhubarb muffins. Whole strawberries are scattered around the small plate.

Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins

Side salad with sliced Roma tomatoes, sliced cucumber, Romaine lettuce, and crumbled feta cheese.

Easy Greek Side Salad

Broccoli slaw salad in a dark blue and white bubble patterned Polish pottery serving bowl with a set of tongs held diagonally from the right partially inserted in the salad and grabbing some salad.

Broccoli Slaw Salad

A loaf of chocolate zucchini bread partially sliced sitting on a dark blue Polish pottery plate with a bubble white pattern and a lattice pattern around the edge.

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

A serving of ground beef rice casserole and two scoops of pumpkin on a dark blue plate. A fork is inserted into the casserole from the left and a spoon in the upper left corner.

Dinner in a Pumpkin

The corner of a glass 9x13 baking dish of no-bake peach cheesecake with a slice cut out of the corner.

No-Bake Peach Cheesecake

A glass mixing bowl with carrot kimchi with a spoon held above with a scoop of carrot kimchi on it.

Carrot Kimchi

Several Saint Clement Squares on a light blue plate with a dark blue rim. A lime is in the left bottom corner, two forks in the upper left corner, and an orange in the upper right corner and an orange on the right of the plate.

Saint Clement Squares

Three fajita stuffed sweet potatoes sitting in a glass 9x13 baking dish topped with melted cheese and sliced green onions with melted cheese surrounding the bottoms of the sweet potatoes.

Fajita Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

A dark blue, white polka dotted Polish pottery soup bowl of beef barley soup with a spoon inserted in the soup resting on the edge. A pot holder is laying on the right of the bowl.

The Best Beef Barley Soup

Two slices of pumpkin bundt cake with cream cheese frosting sitting on small plates with two forks crisscross on each other between the plates. In the upper right corner is a pumpkin bundt cake with cream cheese frosting on a round platter with a couple slices cut out.

Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Baked Sweet Potato Wedges on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper.

Baked Sweet Potato Wedges

6-photo picture collage of carrot cake, chocolate zucchini muffins, Samoa Rice Krispie treats, raspberry cheesecake brownies, tres leches cake, and magnolia bakery blueberry jamboree with the text of the title overlayed on the collage.

2023 Readers’ Favorite Dessert Recipes

A bowl of red lentil curry soup with a spoon on the left side of the bowl.

Red Lentil Curry Soup