25 Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Desserts That Everyone Will Love

• Sweet Potato Pudding
• Gluten-Free Almond Thumbprints
• Chocolate Pots De Crème
• Gluten-Free Pie Crust
• Poached Pears
• Keto Pumpkin Pie
• Flourless Chocolate Coconut Cake
• Perfect Panna Cotta
• Coconut Cookies
• Crustless Apple Pie
• Keto Pecan Pie
• Keto Pumpkin Cheesecake
• Pumpkin Mousse
• Flourless Fudge Cookies
• Bloomin’ Apples
• Crustless Pumpkin Pie
• Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake
• Pumpkin Fudge
• Gluten-Free Cheesecake
• Baked Cinnamon Apples
• Pumpkin Pudding
• Flourless Chocolate Cake
• Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Gluten-Free Pumpkin Bread
• Pumpkin Dream Bars

Thanksgiving is all about sharing food with loved ones, and that absolutely means making sure our gluten-free pals can partake in all the pies, cakes, and cookies this holiday season. And can we be honest for a moment? These gluten-free treats are often the first ones to get scraped clean on the dessert table. Yup, these rich gluten-free desserts not only highlight our favorite fall flavors, but just might be better than their gluten-y versions! One bite of our crustless pumpkin pie is guaranteed to have you feeling very thankful.

Living gluten-free thankfully doesn’t mean you have to skip out on your favorite Thanksgiving desserts. It also doesn’t have to be complicated either! Some of our favorite gluten-free recipes don’t even require any special ingredients or flours. Simply going crust-less makes a ton of fall desserts delicious for everyone, like our crustless apple pies, sweet potato pudding, and chocolate pots de creme. And if you’ve never delighted in a rich, fudgy flourless chocolate cake, now is the time to make our flourless peanut butter chocolate cake or flourless chocolate coconut cake recipes.

Okay, while we’d love to have a dessert-only Thanksgiving, we get it if you need to complete your meal with all the fixings. Try all our gluten-free Thanksgiving recipes to fill your plate (especially with plenty of gluten-free stuffing). No matter who is coming to Thanksgiving dinner, we’ve got plenty of recipes to accommodate with our vegan Thanksgiving ideas, vegetarian Thanksgiving, and healthy Thanksgiving recipes. And no meal is complete without a Thanksgiving dessert or one of these Thanksgiving cocktails, right?

Sweet Potato Pudding

This silky smooth sweet potato pudding is a lighter, simplified cousin of sweet potato casserole without the topping or crust. It’s essentially the filling of sweet potato pie with an optional whipped cream or marshmallow fluff topping. No crust or crimping fuss required! The texture is smooth like a pudding but, after chilling, holds its shape similar to cold ice cream. The pudding is great served as a healthier take on Thanksgiving dessert, or for breakfast during the holidays. If you like, add toasted, chopped pecans and toasted coconut for a little more flair.

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Gluten-Free Almond Thumbprints

The buttery, gluten-free base to these versatile cookies pair well with just about any filling. Pair them with raspberry, blackberry, strawberry—the world is your oyster when it comes to these adorable, bite-sized treats.

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Chocolate Pots De Crème

These little pots of chocolatey goodness defy explanation. While they are technically a custard, they fall somewhere in the middle between a pudding and a mousse. All you really need to know is that these ultra-chocolatey cups are a rich, sweet dream, topped with fluffy whipped cream.

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Gluten-Free Pie Crust

Finding a good pie crust when you’re not gluten-free is already tough (our classic pie crust took us several tries to get just right)—imagine when you need to avoid flour! Fortunately, our gluten-free pie crust has been tested and perfected. The secret to perfect GF pie crust? Cold sour cream!

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Poached Pears

Poaching slightly underripe pears makes them tender and sweetens them while allowing them to maintain their structure. Once poached, they can be served warm or cold, garnished with a caramel reduction of the cooking liquid, and accompanied with everything from ice cream to whipped cream to yogurt.

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Keto Pumpkin Pie

When Thanksgiving rolls around, we can’t get roasted turkey and stuffing off our minds; however, what we really want, especially the day after Turkey Day, is pumpkin pie. And if you are wanting to keep it low-carb, this keto pumpkin pie will make it easy.

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Flourless Chocolate Coconut Cake

This gluten-free cake is a perfect last-minute dessert to whip up that is so gorgeous, people will think it took you days to make. The flourless cake is made out of butter, semisweet chocolate, and eggs, PLUS fragrant toasted coconut in the batter and on top. The signature cracked topping dusted with cocoa powder makes this easy dessert into a stunning centerpiece.

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Perfect Panna Cotta

Panna cotta is a cream-based Italian dessert that is set with gelatin, and any dessert that uses cream as the main dessert is a must-make in our books. This no-bake dessert is delicate, creamy, and all-around decadent.

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Coconut Cookies

Soft, chewy, slightly golden crispy edges with toasted coconut strewn throughout, these coconut cookies are not too shy to highlight their star ingredient. Topped with even more coconut right before baking, these chewy cookies with a crispy edge are a coconut lover’s dream.

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Crustless Apple Pie

You need to try this hasselback trick with apples ASAP. It tastes like a cross between a homemade apple pie and a warm apple crumble. The best part: You don’t need to deal with rolling out and chilling pie dough.
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Keto Pecan Pie

This keto pecan pie has all the flavors of the holidays with none of the refined carbs or sugar. Classic keto baking ingredients such as almond flour, coconut flour, monkfruit sweetener, and heavy cream make it possible to make a great pecan pie. The pie needs time to set up properly before you cut it, so the chilling time is essential. But this is great because you can make it ahead and serve it when you’re ready–without the stress!

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Keto Pumpkin Cheesecake

Going on the keto diet doesn’t mean you have to miss out on your favorite holiday dessert. With a few modifications and a gluten-free crust, our easy pumpkin cheesecake becomes keto-friendly! Pumpkin spice season can resume as normal.

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Pumpkin Mousse

This mousse is exactly what we think fall tastes like. Love the flavor but missing some crunch? Add a couple crushed gluten-free cookies of your choosing to the bottom of each serving dish for a makeshift crust, like we did for our lemon cheesecake mousse recipe.

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Flourless Fudge Cookies

We skipped the flour and butter but still created the fudgiest cookie with the crispiest edges. Whether you’re gluten-free or not, you’ll find it hard to stop eating these cookies.
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Bloomin’ Apples

We took inspo from the ever popular Bloomin’ Onion and made a just as fun, easy dessert. Because apples can turn brown really quickly, you’ll want to brush them with butter and get them in the oven pretty quickly after slicing them. These are also so fun to make in the air fryer!

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Crustless Pumpkin Pie

For those who can’t have gluten or think the pie crust is just a vessel to get the best part of the pie, this pumpkin pie is for you. Made without the crust, this pie takes less than half the time and WAY less effort. No making pie crusts, no chilling, and no blind baking. It’s a Thanksgiving miracle.

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Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake

We gave the classic flourless chocolate cake an upgrade in the form of LOTS of peanut butter. The chocolate and PB combo make it even richer than the original, while being just as easy to make. The fancy stripes are optional—but who doesn’t love a little extra peanut butter?!

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Pumpkin Fudge

Watch this spicy fall-inspired fudge magically disappear at your next party. Wanna add some mix-ins to your pumpkin fudge? We suggest toasted walnuts or butterscotch chips!

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Gluten-Free Cheesecake

Typically a cheesecake crust is made out of crushed graham crackers. You can look for gluten-free grahams—or make a crust with almond flour like ours, which is so delicious. We also like to add a little bit of flour to our cheesecake batter so that it holds together. Here, we add a gluten-free flour, but you can sub in almond flour if you don’t mind a nuttier flavor and texture.

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Baked Cinnamon Apples

Baked apples kind of feel like a shortcut way to eat apple pie…you’ll never hear us complaining!

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Pumpkin Pudding

We all love a good Snack Pack and miss the days of finding one in our lunch boxes. This easy hack for pumpkin pudding will take you right back to the good days, and it will satisfy every pumpkin spice latte craving you have.

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Flourless Chocolate Cake

The best part about this flourless cake is that it doesn’t require any flour alternatives and is 100% gluten free. Cocoa powder and eggs give it all the lift and structure it needs. Elegant and sleek, this is the cake we make most whenever we’re having dinner guests or need to throw together a quick and easy dessert for a party.

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

The words “gluten-free” tend to conjure up the feeling of a sandstorm whipping around in one’s mouth. It’s unpleasant, to say the least. So why would you want to eat a gluten-free chocolate chip cookie? Because, depending on who you ask, these gluten-free chocolate chip cookies are even better than the OG. Don’t believe us? Give these a try.

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Gluten-Free Pumpkin Bread

Just because you have to avoid gluten doesn’t mean you have to avoid pumpkin bread. Oats are the secret to this sweet treat, and we highly recommend toasting up a slice ASAP with plenty of butter.

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Pumpkin Dream Bars

Pumpkin dream bars are a creamy, custardy, cheesecake-like pumpkin dessert everyone will swoon over. For this recipe, we used crushed Cheerios for the crust (to accommodate our gluten-free friends), but feel free to sub in graham crackers or Nilla Wafers if you prefer.

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