Everyone has their classic Thanksgiving dishes that they make each and every year. But how about this year you put a slight spin on those recipes and amaze your family and friends with your cooking abilities?

No need to feel intimidated switching it up this year – we’ve got you covered!

Thanksgiving Appetizers and Main Course Ideas:

Deep Fried Loaded Mashed Potato Bites

Load these babies up with bacon, onions, cheese, and whatever else your heart desires. This recipe can be served as the perfect appetizer while you entertain your friends & family.

Cheesy Mashed Sweet Potato Cakes

One of the most uncomplicated recipes to make for your busy Thanksgiving Day. It is cheesy but crispy and is just downright delicious.

Brown and Wild Rice Turkey Stuffing with Chestnuts and Dried Fruits

Short grain and wild rice mixed together with nuts, fruits, and all the right spices, this may become your favorite stuffing of all time!

Turkey Sliders with Sweet Potato "Buns”

Roasted slices of sweet potato made into buns to create the ultimate turkey sliders.

Turkey Stuffed Acorn Squash

This recipe is a mixture of all your favorite fall flavors. It has turkey, apples, cranberries, and more that are all blended together and stuffed into a beautiful sweet acorn squash.

Delightful Thanksgiving Desserts:

Have fun switching up the traditional sweets for this year’s Thanksgiving festivities.

Slow Cooker Pumpkin Pecan Bread Pudding

This dessert is perfect for fall and is ideal for Thanksgiving brunch or having it as dessert to top off your Thanksgiving dinner. With it having chopped pecans, pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and much more combined together, you have the most supreme dessert that can be topped with vanilla ice cream and some caramel drizzle.

Marbled Chocolate Cheesecake Pumpkin Pie

If you love pumpkin pie or pumpkin cheesecake and you desire chocolate here and there, then you can’t go another day without trying this recipe. It is a pumpkin cheesecake and pie combined with bits of sweet chocolate swirled throughout. You can’t go wrong with a recipe that sounds this delicious.

Apple Cranberry Cinnamon Roll Cobbler

With this recipe, you have a cinnamon roll, an apple pie, and a cobbler all in one. So, with that being said, this is a dessert your family and friends will never forget!

No Bake Healthy Pumpkin Spice Truffles

In need of a dessert that is quick and easy, then this is the recipe for you. It is the perfect Thanksgiving treat that requires no baking and tastes just like a slice of pumpkin pie but is made with all healthy ingredients.