Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Thanksgiving Desserts
A holiday dessert spread that covers all our favorite pumpkin and sweet potato thanksgiving desserts! Starting with a Spiced Pumpkin Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting then a Sweet Potato Pie with Maple Marshmallow Topping and ending with a Pumpkin Maple Tart with Spiced Pecan Crust!
I bet you all thought I forgot about Thanksgiving given my recent indulgences into holiday sweets and cold weather food. Case in point these eggnog bourbon cupcakes, homemade peppermint marshmallows and this eggnog pudding cake. Well to be honest, I did not forget Thanksgiving!! I had this spectacular holiday dessert spread planned for today that I knew will cover all of your Thanksgiving day needs.
I mean how could Spiced Pumpkin Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting, Sweet Potato Pie with Maple Marshmallow Topping and Pumpkin Maple Tart with Spiced Pecan Crust not cover all your Thanksgiving dessert? All your basis are covered!!
It’s only fitting I walk you through each of these starting with the cake. A moist, fluffy and spiced pumpkin cake is frosted with a whipped brown butter sugar. For all those cake lovers in your party.
Next the classic sweet potato pie is made elegant with a dreamy cloud of maple sweetened marshmallow topping.
And finally for the die hard pumpkin pie fans in your family (ahem, my FIL), this pumpkin maple tart is packed with all your pumpkin pie must-haves and more with a spiced pecan crust.
All of these Thanksgiving desserts can be made ahead of time (a day or two ahead) to make your entertaining stress-free.
In fact, I am sharing some entertaining tips and the recipes over on the Kitchenthusiast, the KitchenAid blog.
I am super excited to be joining their contributor team and can’t wait for you to see the recipes. Head over now and not only get the recipes but also some of my entertaining tips for the holiday season! Tell me over there “What are some of your entertaining tips for the holiday season?”
This post is sponsored by Kitchenaid . As usual, all opinions are 100% mine.
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I want all of this! Yes I do!!
Pumpkin and sweet potato heaven! I’ll take one of each, please. 🙂
Z!!! oh my gawd, there is too much fabulousness in this post!!! WOW! I am floored . . they all look so good!!! I want to spend the holidays with YOU!!! I’m coming over! 🙂
Thank you so much Alice!!
Oh my gosh! This is the fall dessert table of my dreams!! Everything looks absolutely perfect and so gorgeous! I wish I had a slice of each and I’m with Alice, I want to spend the holidays at your dinner table 🙂
You and Alice need to come over!! Would be so great to have you!
Everything looks so pretty! The cake looks so moist, yum! those bars, oh oh yes I need those in my life too.
Thank you Leslie!
I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS SPREAD. Can I just have Thanksgiving at your place, please? Pretty please?
Oh yes of course!!
Ermagawd, Zainab, you’re a baking queen! Look at you and your mad skills – these are three incredible, beautiful, decadent, perfect desserts. I want all of them in front of me, right now. That cake is crazy fluffy ‘n moist, the crust on your pie is perfection, and you can’t go wrong with pumpkin and sweet potato at this time of year.
Thank you Nancy!!
I lean more in the sweet potato direction but all of these desserts look amazing!
Well that pie is just for you!!
The sweet potato pie looks really good!
Thanks Ashley!
O. M. G. I think I’ve died and gone to Thanksgiving dessert heaven!! If you need any taste testers…I’ll be on the next bus.
Hhahah thank you! Just for this year, you can’t come to Thanksgiving here. We can’t leave the.boy at the altar!! After the wedding, you are always welcome!!
Gorgeous spread, Zainab! I would love a slice of each, please! Heading over now to check out the feature!
Thank you Ashley!!
Love these dessert options, Z! Can you send over a slice of each? Actually, two slices of each. (It’s the holidays…go ahead and have that second slice, right? Haha!)
Oh yes two!! It’s the cardinal rule of the holidays!
You are SO talented, lady! I have serious baking skill envy. All three of these are perfect and beautiful. The flavor combos all sounds just incredible!! LOVE!!
Hahha thanks Sarah! I am willing to pass along any knowledge your way but I really think you don’t need it! I am always in awe of your baked goods too 🙂
YUM! That cake!! Wow! Such perfectly pretty layers!
Thanks Annie!
Congrats on being a contributer at kitchenaid, that’s awesome! All of these desserts look amazing, the spread is just beautiful!
Thank you Julia!
I’ll be over for dessert! 🙂
Waiting for you 🙂
What a beautiful spread! That frosting looks incredible – can you send some my way please? 😉
Hhaha of course! Coming right up 🙂
So many great Thanksgiving dessert ideas!
Oh yum, I’d so love to eat all the stuff here! Everything looks delicious! It’s such a shame that we don’t really do Thanksgiving in Spain, because all the food (and the meaning behind it) is amaaaaaazing.
Have a nice weekend dear! xx
It’s really just a day of eating and spending time with family. One of the best holidays!
YUMMM! all these goodies look so delicious!
Thank you Caralyn!
Oh my goodness, all of these sound incredible! And they are all beautiful. Haha, I was scrolling through your feed and was like, it’s Christmas at her house 🙂 Which isn’t a bad thing 🙂 I’m going crazy for all these orange themed desserts!
Haha had to break up the christmas flow with these 🙂
Whoa – these are all stellar! I’m a huge sweet potato fan in baking!
Me too!!!!
This look incredible delicious!! I need a slice of all of them!
Thanks Jesuca!!
This spiced pumpkin cake is beautiful! I love how you have decorated it too with the pine cones and berries.
So many fall flavors going on here. I love this!
I have a question about the Spiced Pumpkin Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting. The instructions for the frosting says “Mix the salted caramel into the buttercream.” But I don’t see salted caramel in the ingredients list. Sorry but I’m a little confused. I appreciate your help!
Hi Ann Claire. sorry about that, it was a typo. I will go ahead and fix that right away. There is no salted caramel in that recipe. So feel free to ignore. Do let me know how the cake turns out! It’s one of my favorites during this time of the year 😉