An American, autumnal holiday for giving thanks and celebrating the goodness in life, Thanksgiving provides an opportunity for a large meal and getting together with family and friends. Traditional desserts for Thanksgiving include apple pie, pumpkin pie and pecan pie. However, it's always fun to surprise a guest's taste buds with unexpected desserts and flavors.
Serve Breads as a Colorful Thanksgiving Dessert
With a variety of breads and toppings on the table, guests can mix and match flavors and have a chance to taste each one. Banana bread, poppy seed bread, cranberry or cranberry orange bread, pumpkin chocolate chip bread and pound cake served on a cutting board can be a colorful autumnal dessert. Serve the breads with cream cheese, jam, butter, cinnamon glaze and hot chocolate spread for a fun taste test.
These breads can also be used as a Thanksgiving morning breakfast if the dessert table is already filled with enough treats.
Distinctive Pumpkin Thanksgiving Desserts
Pumpkins are a fall accessory and almost always find their way to the Thanksgiving table. Often, the classic choice for a Thanksgiving dessert is a pumpkin pie. However, pumpkin can be used with a variety of other flavors to create decadent and delicious desserts. Dianasdesserts offers new ways to mix and match pumpkin with other textures. The website offers recipes such as pumpkin cheesecake, chocolate-pumpkin torte, pumpkin cranberry custard and even pumpkin ice cream. Pumpkin can also be used in bread puddings, cakes, whoopie pies, cookies, meringues or even a mousse for a lighter, airy dessert choice.
Thanksgiving Desserts for Children
If children are present, they may not be interested in the larger more dramatic desserts, but something fun and just their size can be a welcome addition to a family oriented Thanksgiving dinner. Chocolate turkeys, autumn colored bite size chocolates, or colorful gelatin molds in the shape of turkeys, leaves, or cornucopias are fun kid friendly choices. And don't forget cupcakes! A Thanksgiving cupcake, according to FamilyFun magazine, with the addition of a few cookies and candies, can have a cute and colorful turkey poised on top . FamilyFun Magazine also suggests a cake that looks just like a caramel apple, complete with glaze and nuts.
Thanksgiving is a holiday that for some, is centered around a terrific meal. Spice up the dessert course with some new and exciting recipes that will impress your guests with flair and excellent flavor.
Sources:
FamilyFun Magazine: Gobbling Good Cupcakes
FamilyFun Magazine: Caramel Apple Cake
Sarahlynne Davis - Sarahlynne has been a professional educator for 8 years and a freelance writer for two years. She holds an MEd in Language, Literacy and ...
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