Thanksgiving is one of my absolute favorite holidays! Planning the menu with recipes everyone will love is so much fun. This year we are having many of our favorite Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Casserole, Best Ever Mashed Potatoes, Slow Cooker Creamed Corn and incredible Thanksgiving desserts. Scroll to the bottom to check out our most popular Thanksgiving desserts.
I love all the fun little details. I print out all of my recipes and write on them what time I have to start prepping them (taking them out of the fridge, making the dough, etc.) what time to start making each recipe and then plan to have slow cookers to transfer most of the food into to keep it warm.
I make my mashed potatoes the day before and warm them in a slow cooker (3 hours before we eat). I make the sweet potato casserole base and warm it in the oven and add the topping the day of Thanksgiving.
The gravy can be made the day before. And I prep all of my stuffing ingredients the day before (cook the sausage and the bacon, toast the bread). That way preparing the food on Thanksgiving day is so much less stressful, and you can focus on the important things.
We've put together our most popular Thanksgiving recipes and you are going to love them!
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Best Ever Herb Roasted Turkey is so moist and flavorful it is the only recipe you will ever need. Nothing beats this buttery herb-infused flavor in your turkey. A simple recipe that you will use again and again. So easy there is no basting required!
Best Ever Orange Honey Baked Ham recipe starts with a bone-in ham and a glaze that will absolutely blow your mind. A few simple ingredients come together to create the most glorious ham you have ever tasted. It is sweet, tangy and utterly divine.
Best Stuffing Recipe Ever starts with sausage, cranberry, and apple. Herbs and spices are added in but the real magic happens as the pan is deglazed with the most glorious combination of liquids and those bits are scraped up creating the most magnificent sauce to bake the stuffing in. Oh, my word!
Fully Loaded Extreme Cheesy Potato Casserole is your cheesy potato bake kicked up about 12 notches. 3 kinds of cheese, sour cream, and bacon come together in this Fully Loaded Extreme Cheesy Potato Casserole to tantalize your taste buds. Rich, creamy and packed with ooey gooey cheese this simple recipe is a keeper!
Best Ever Mashed Potatoes are rich and creamy with the perfect texture and flavor. A decadent side dish fit for a special occasion with a simple recipe that makes them easy enough to make any night of the week. With make-ahead instructions these are the ultimate mashed potatoes!
Best Ever Slow Cooker Creamed Corn recipe doesn't get much easier. Simply toss 6 ingredients into the slow cooker or crockpot and a few hours later you have the silkiest, creamiest most divine creamed corn you have ever eaten. You might want to print this recipe out, because everyone is going to ask for it!
Super Simple Mac & Cheese Italian Style is a go-to recipe around here. With just 7 ingredients and 15 minutes, you can have this fantastic dinner on the table. It is the ultimate leftover and weeknight dinner helper.
Sweet Potato Casserole Boston Market Copycat is one of our most popular sides, waiting to be served on your table. This is one for your recipe book! Rich sweet potatoes covered in marshmallow and brown sugar streusel topping is a side dish to remember.
Cheesy Bacon Green Bean Casserole ain't your grandma's recipe! This modern take on the classic recipe features green beans in a rich and creamy bacon mushroom cheese sauce that will change Thanksgiving forever! Cooking from scratch has never been so easy.
Best Ever Gravy is the only recipe you will ever need for gravy! Made with or without turkey or chicken drippings, it is truly a glorious gravy, unlike anything you have had before. It is made with 4 ingredients you probably have on hand plus the perfect blend of herbs and spices. It all comes together in just 20 minutes!
5-Ingredient Homemade Gravy is one of my favorite shortcuts in the kitchen. This 5 Minute Homemade Brown Gravy recipe will be a meal saver. All you need is this simple recipe, no packet needed. If you are looking for a super simple gravy recipe this is the one for you!
Slow Cooker Triple Cheesy Mac and Cheese is a simple recipe that you can toss together in just 5 minutes. It is truly one of our favorite recipes in our book! It’s pure comfort in a bowl, with perfectly tender corkscrew pasta with twists and ridges that capture the luscious pepper Jack and cheddar cheese sauce. It has just enough heat to wake up your taste buds.
Best Ever Garlic Roasted Brussels Sprouts. This is the only recipe you will ever need. I have never liked Brussels sprouts. Until now.
Copycat Texas Roadhouse Rolls are one of the most sought out copycat recipes. Well my friends, search no more. Our best Texas Roadhouse Copycat Bread Rolls recipe is here and just in time for Game Day!
Copycat Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits are easier AND tastier than a box mix! This recipe is so easy, it only takes one bowl, one whisk, no baking mix and 20 minutes! Yes, only 20 minutes from start till serve.
Best Ever Strawberry Spinach Salad will rock your world! This simple recipe is a celebration of summers bounty in the most spectacular salad you will ever eat. Fresh crisp spinach salad is taken to another level with bursts of sweetness from fresh summer fruit and buttery avocado. It is tossed in a sweet and tangy vinaigrette and topped with crunchy nuts and creamy cheese.
Cucumber Tomato Salad is the best of harvest all year long. Crisp cucumbers and luscious tomatoes tossed in a bright and creamy lemon poppy seed dressing. This is my newest obsession.
3-Ingredient Simple Cranberry Sauce is perfectly tangy and sweet. Cranberry Sauce is a Thanksgiving dinner must and with this simple recipe, it is sure to be a new tradition! It comes together in just about 10 minutes and you can make it days ahead and refrigerate it until Thanksgiving dinner.
Best Ever Pecan Pie Bars are so good people offer to pay me for them. A fabulous recipe with a caramelized pecan pie set atop a shortbread crust is the absolute perfect nut bar. My family requests more of this dessert than any other every year.
No-Bake Avalanche Cookies are a simple make-at-home copycat recipe with just 5 ingredients. Have you ever had the pleasure of enjoying the Avalanche Bark at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory? Imagine creamy peanut butter fudge speckled with Rice Krispies, fluffy marshmallows and chocolate chips.
Crazy Caramel Apple Pie Bombs are the pull-apart bread of your dreams. This fabulous recipe is packed with caramel and apples and baked to perfection. Pull one open and a river of sweet caramel runs over the apple pie bombs.
Crockpot Candy is the easiest and most impressive homemade candy ever. A rich chocolaty, peanutty 4 ingredient recipe that you simply toss in the slow cooker, stir a few times and scoop it out. It doesn't get much easier than that!
Best Tasting Sugar Cookie Icing - 4 ingredients and 5 minutes! People have been begging for this frosting recipe for years. Now you have it!
Reese's Peanut Butter Fudge is luscious and creamy, made with chunks of peanuts throughout the fudge to give it the perfect crunch. This Reese's Peanut Butter Fudge is a simple recipe with just 4-ingredients! It comes together in just 10 minutes.
Pumpkin Slab Pie is the perfect fall dessert for a crowd made on a cookie sheet! Creamy pumpkin pie on top of a buttery homemade crust, top it with whipped cream or serve a la mode!
Crockpot Turtles Candy is an incredibly scrumptious treat. A simple recipe with perfectly roasted pecans, creamy caramel, and rich chocolate. It is so easy it just about cooks itself. Simply dump ingredients into your slow cooker, stir and scoop. Then garnish and gift (or serve). It doesn't get much easier than that!
Perfect Peach Cobbler Dump Cake is a very easy recipe made in one bowl, poured into a pan and canned peaches are poured over the top. It doesn't get much easier than that. Well, my daughter has been making this cake since she was three, and that is one simple cake!
Cherry Dump Cake is very easy to make with few ingredients, ready in 50 minutes, and loaded with delicious cherry pie filling!
Strawberry Banana Cheesecake Salad recipe comes together with just 6 ingredients. Rich and creamy cheesecake filling is folded into luscious strawberries and sweet banana to create the most amazing, glorious fruit salad ever! The flavor has been punched up with a secret ingredient and you are going to go nuts over this recipe! The king of the potluck table has arrived.
Caramel Apple Poke Cake is the perfect dessert to celebrate fall with! For people who aren't pumpkin fans, this easy box mix recipe is bursting with apple chunks, caramel pudding, and fluffy whipped brown sugar cream cheese. It's festively topped off with apples, toffee bits, and as much caramel as you can handle!
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