Planning a Thanksgiving gathering? There’s a lot to plan! Here are some great fruit recipes for Thanksgiving!
The holiday season often means lots of holiday hosting is going on.
If you are planning a Thanksgiving dinner, you might be looking for some side dish ideas.
My kids love fruit and it is always a safe bet to serve at a meal.
Fruit might not be as traditionally Thanksgiving as sweet potatoes, but they are still great staples to serve traditionally or in a new fresh way.
Here are some ideas for Thanksgiving side dishes for kids.
Anyways, here are some Thanksgiving fruit recipes that would be a hit with my kids! I hope that your kids will love them, too!
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The best fruit recipes for Thanksgiving
Planning your Thanksgiving meal? Here are the best fruit recipes for Thanksgiving!
This old fashioned fruit salad is perfect for Thanksgiving! It is easy and delicious.
This dairy free fruit salad is made with a delicious citrus honey dressing. It is a simple, refreshing, and beautiful dish!
These Strawberries and Cream Cheese Turnovers are the ideal handheld individual treats for breakfast with a hot cup of tea or dessert with a heaping scoop of ice cream! They’re layered with tangy cream cheese, sweet homemade jammy spiced strawberries, and baked to golden perfection in a buttery flaky puff pastry crust!
Cranberries and apples make a perfect fall fruit crisp. This tasty dessert is perfect for Thanksgiving or any time.
3 ingredient orange cranberry relish is such an easy side dish. It is a great colorful make ahead addition to your Thanksgiving or Christmas menu.
Gluten-Free Blueberry Key Lime Cake, super creamy, tangy and topped with vanilla blueberry topping. The buttery crust is made from scratch with just a few simple ingredients. And the zesty custard filling is made with only three ingredients. The topping is all about fresh blueberries in a blueberry sauce, hinted with lime juice, vanilla and a touch of a sweetener.
Sweet ripe persimmons shine in this salad with crisp greens, prosciutto, cranberries, goat cheese and toasted pecans. This persimmon salad is a wonderful addition to any holiday spread.
This Cranberry Salad is a must for Thanksgiving dinner! A dessert salad that makes a great side dish with fresh cranberries, oranges, apples, pomegranate and pineapple.
Berry Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread is a crowd pleaser and a family favorite. Easy to make and loaded with fresh berries.
This Rustic Blackberry and Blueberry Galette Recipe is made with fresh blackberries, juicy plump blueberries, and hints of fresh rosemary all baked in a golden buttery crust. Dust with powdered sugar and serve your own Blueberry Galette with vanilla ice cream or homemade whipped cream.
This easy Apple Bread Pudding is a cross between apple pie and traditional bread pudding. Cubed challah is tossed with a cinnamon spiced vanilla custard, topped with an apple pecan caramel sauce, and baked until golden.
These Air Fryer Apples are the perfect lazy fall dessert. Hitting all of the flavor notes of apple pie without the hassle of a pie crust, these are so easy and yummy. The air fryer baked apples are topped with an oat crumble and must be served warm with ice cream on top.
Thanksgiving Fruit Salad is a vibrant, healthy addition to your holiday table. Colorful chopped fruit is tossed with a simple honey dressing for a delicious, easy side dish.
If you’re looking for a light and unique dessert for Thanksgiving, try these delicious pears! Only 3 ingredients and totally moreish!
Add all of your favorite fall fruits to this thanksgiving charcuterie for a festive appetizer that will WOW!
This pretty mini fruit tarts are the perfect dessert for holidays, baby and wedding showers, and other events and parties!
This English trifle has poached pears and fresh raspberries layered with homemade custard, almond pound cake and fresh whipped cream. It's an elegant showstopper that's perfect for the holidays!
This French Apple Cake is made from very simple ingredients in just one pan - no mixer required! Layered honeycrisp apples sit atop a beautiful vanilla cake.
Fresh fruit platters and fruit trays don’t have to be boring and lifeless. There are many ways to make them look extraordinary and elicit those “wow” moments! We give you the ultimate fruit platter presentation ideas and how to put them together.
Refreshing combination of rockmelon, golden kiwi and passionfruit topped with indulgent crushed chocolate honeycomb to create a zippy sweet no-cook dessert salad that will wow the crowds.
Lovely, seasonal fruit make this fall/winter fruit platter a perfect addition to any spread. Serve as an appetizer or a light dessert option (scrumptious with the cinnamon coconut cream)!
Persimmon Salad with Honey Pistachios is as delicious as it is beautiful! With blue cheese, creamy balsamic dressing, and cranberries in the mix, this colorful dish is perfect for the holiday season.
This Pear and Gingerbread Parfait is a quick and easy no bake Christmas treat. The warming spices in the thick yogurt contrast beautifully with the crushed gingerbread cookies. Chopped juicy pear adds a fragrant tasty extra flavour.
Perfectly sweet and tart cranberry sauce ready for your Thanksgiving table, and best of all it's low carb!
Tired of boring oatmeal for breakfast? Start your mornings off right with this Healthy Fruit Pizza - It's easy, fun and so delicious!
Grandma's Rhubarb Pie - Tart rhubarb and sweet raisins in a flaky crust.
My Grandma’s Rhubarb Pie is made with fresh rhubarb and raisins perfectly sweetened and enveloped in a flaky pie crust.
Strawberry Spinach Salad (With Sesame Seed Balsamic Vinegar Dressing)
Strawberry Spinach Salad recipe made with a sesame seed balsamic vinegar dressing, perfect for a holiday side dish.
If you are looking for a tasty, unique, and fun dessert, this Coca-Cola Salad is just what you are looking for. It has the retro Jell-O salad feel with a cola twist. Top it off with some Cool Whip to make this a creamy, dreamy dish for your next Thanksgiving.
There are no frogs in this recipe, but this traditional sweet dessert does have a lot of flavors. Named for the shape of the Acini de Pepe pasta that is in this dish, it has a fun name and is a great holiday dish.
This vegan cherry pie is perfect and with either fresh or frozen cherries, making it great anytime of year!
It’s not Thanksgiving without Cranberry Jello salad on the table!
Cranberry Fluff Cranberry Salad, made with fresh cranberries, makes a sweet and delicious cranberry salad, side dish, or dessert.
These Cinnamon Apples taste like a warm apple pie, but they come together in 15 minutes on the stovetop! This cinnamon apples recipe makes a perfect breakfast, pancake topper, snack, or light dessert.
Caramel Apple Cheese Pastry is loaded with everything you love about autumn on a flaky crust. It’s packed with apples, cinnamon, cream cheese and pecans, then topped with homemade caramel sauce for a sweet fall treat!
Make this gorgeous and might I add, super easy, Pear Bundt Cake this Thanksgiving. Moist, flavorful, with wonderful fall spices. It will become a favorite!
Cranberry Apple Slow Cooker Carrots is an easy and unique side dish perfect for Thanksgiving, Friendsgiving, or Christmas. Cooking them in a slow cooker brings out their natural sweetness and I love cooking carrots this way!
This fruit salad is the perfect combination of sweet fruits topped with a zesty lemon poppy seed dressing. Strawberries, blueberries, mango, kiwi and orange are mixed together with mint and a light lemon poppy seed dressing.
Healthy Yogurt Fruit Dip is light, nutritious and the perfect sweet dip for a tray of fresh fruit. This dip is kid-friendly, makes a great work snack and can be made in under 5 minutes. You can swap out the almond butter for your favorite nut butter.
What are your favorite fruit recipes for Thanksgiving?
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