Add a touch of whimsy to your traditional Thanksgiving dinner by serving these cute desserts and festive appetizers. Choose from 40+ Fun Thanksgiving food crafts including Chocolate Turkey Truffles, Cheesecake Leaves, Pilgrim Cupcakes, and more.
Thanksgiving food and desserts don't have to be ordinary. They can be fun too.
Below you will find 40+ fun Thanksgiving Recipes that are sure to make your family smile.
How can you stress out when you look into the face of a googly-eyed Rice Krispie Turkey Pop or when you break open a chocolate pilgrim hat to find candy or chocolate mousse hiding inside? I sure can't!
Chocolate Thanksgiving Desserts
Chocolate Rice Krispies Treat Turkey Pops
These chocolate-dipped rice krispie treat turkeys are my most popular Thanksgiving recipe. They couldn't be cuter and are fun to decorate using modeling chocolate.
You can fill these chocolate pilgrim hat cups with your favorite candy or with chocolate mousse.
CHEESECAKE Pumpkin Stuffed Cupcakes
These delicious chocolate cupcakes are stuffed with a pumpkin-shaped cheesecake and are topped with chocolate ganache frosting.
Cocoa Banana Ice Cream Turkeys
These cute ice cream turkeys are perfect if you are looking for a healthier dessert for Thanksgiving. The ice cream is made using bananas and cocoa powder. It's so delicious and easy to make.
Thanksgiving Hot Chocolate Bomb Turkeys
These chocolate turkeys are filled with hot cocoa mix and tiny marshmallows. Each turkey hot chocolate bomb is hand-painted using colored candy melts.
If you prefer a decadent chocolate dessert, decorate chocolate cheesecakes
to look like turkeys instead!
Chocolate Turkey Truffles filled with Pumpkin Ganache
Go all out and create these amazing turkey-shaped chocolate truffles.
They are so amazing. Your whole family will love these Thanksgiving chocolates.
Milk Chocolate Turkey Cups filled with Pumpkin Mousse
These chocolate cups will really make your family smile. They are so darn cute
and are so amazingly delicious!
Chocolate Turkey Box filled with small chocolate turkeys
Fill this handmade chocolate turkey-shaped box with lots of mini chocolate turkeys. This box makes a festive Thanksgiving hostess gift.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Turkeys
Craft these adorably cute turkeys using a simple 2-ingredient chocolate peanut butter fudge.
Edible Cupcake Wrappers - Chocolate Pilgrim Suit
These Thanksgiving cupcakes are completely edible including the wrapper
which is made out of modeling chocolate.
Decorate a cheeseball with lots of chopped bacon and cheese eyes, beak, wattle, and feet then surround it with cheese topped cracker feathers.
This leaf-shaped veggie pizza is a colorful and fun appetizer to serve with Thanksgiving dinner.
Pie Crust Turkey decoration for Thanksgiving
Top a homemade or store-bought pumpkin pie with a cute sugar-coated pie crust turkey. The turkey is easy to make using homemade or store-bought pie dough.
Top leaf-shaped crescent rolls with cheese, paprika, parsley, or Italian seasoning. Fill your Thanksgiving bread basket with these cheesy leaves and watch them disappear.
Cheesecake Leaves and Pumpkins
Use silicone molds to create these beautiful leaf and pumpkin-shaped cheesecakes.
Shape 2-ingredient chocolate caramel fudge into pumpkins then dip them in
orange candy melts and add a fudge stem to make these cute Thanksgiving treats.
Pound Cake Leaves and Pumpkins
Color pound cake batter with red, yellow, and food coloring to create
these pretty pound cake leaves and pumpkins for your Thanksgiving dessert.
Thanksgiving will be a little sweeter if you serve these cute peanut butter cookie turkeys. They are simple to make and decorate.
Leaf and Pumpkin Shaped Dinner Rolls Topped with Colored Cheese
These cheese bread leaves and pumpkins will look so beautiful in your Thanksgiving bread basket.
Bake apple pies in a Nordic Ware pan to make these pretty leaves, pumpkins, and acorns.
Decorate pumpkin pie spice whoopie pies to look like pumpkins using fondant leaves.
This three-dimensional cheese bread turkey will really look impressive on your
Thanksgiving dinner table. It tastes great too.
Crescent Roll Cornucopia filled with Turkey Salad
These cranberry turkey salad crescent roll cornucopia make a great Black Friday lunch.
Your kids will have fun decorating these cute Thanksgiving treats. It's easy and fun.
Dip pretzel rods in milk chocolate then decorate them using modeling chocolate.
Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Crows
Or dip the pretzels in a combination of milk and dark chocolate to create these cuties.
Or dip the pretzels in peanut butter chips and milk chocolate to make these sweet scarecrows.
Cut pie dough into pumpkins then stuff them with pumpkin pie filling
to make these cute little pumpkin-shaped hand pies.
Stuff pumpkin-shaped pizza crust with a three-cheese filling.
This is a great alternative for your family members who aren't fans of a traditional turkey dinner.
Swap out pumpkin pie spiced filling for the traditional peanut butter fudge
in these delicious chocolate cups to give as a Thanksgiving hostess gift.
Thanksgiving Rice Krispie Treats
Decorate store-bought or homemade rice krispie treats with a pretty fall tree.
Making this 3-D turkey cake is quite an undertaking but it is sure to surprise and impress your family.
Here's another recipe for creating pretty leaves for your Thanksgiving dessert.
It's easy to make these Thanksgiving cookies by stacking up round chocolate cookies. Each pilgrim hat is then decorated with modeling chocolate. Simple and cute.
Pilgrim Suit Cookie Cups filled with Pumpkin Mousse
Use the same chocolate cookie dough to make these pumpkin mousse-filled desserts.
Pumpkin Spice Cut-Out Cookies with Maple Icing
Add some pumpkin spice to your cut-out cookies then decorate them with delicious royal icing that is made with maple syrup.
Not only are these donut holes flavored with pumpkin and spice but
they are decorated to look like pumpkins too.
Paint sugar cookies with food coloring using watercolor techniques.
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
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Sharon Schroeter
Beth, you always have the cutest holiday treats!. Mine never really look like yours, but I never have any left 😉
Keep us the good work & have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Beth
Thanks so much, Sharon! I'm happy to know that your family and friends gobble up the treats you make.
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving too.
J
Please keep presenting these collections to us for every season! Your site is the first place I look for something cute, easy to make, and original for the kids' table at my parties. Thank you!