Delicious and Easy Homemade Thanksgiving Desserts Celebrity Chefs Swear By

After Thursday's scrumptious Thanksgiving dinner is consumed, it's time for the dessert—but what's the best way to impress and delight your guests?

Newsweek spoke to two celebrity chefs to get their opinions on how to answer that question. Each shared their top tips on how to make this Thanksgiving extra sweet for your friends and family this year with minimal stress.

Chef Bae (Brooke Baevsky)

Baevsky told Newsweek that her favorite Thanksgiving food is actually "a good cornbread," but when it comes to creating an impressive and easy-to-make Thanksgiving dessert, she'd recommend her "No-Bake Pumpkin Mousse."

"Go for no-bake, since your oven is already crowded on Thanksgiving," Chef Bae said. "My No-Bake Pumpkin Mousse comes together in 10 minutes! It's plant-based, so everyone at the table can enjoy and does not require any oven space."

No-Bake Pumpkin Mousse ingredients:

• 2 cups coconut milk (2 14 oz. cans)
• • ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
• • 8 tablespoons granulated coconut sugar
• • 1 cup pumpkin puree
• • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• • ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• • ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• • ⅛ teaspoon ground ginger
• (Coconut whipped cream and candied pecans, for serving)

Steps:

1. Chill your cans of coconut milk for at least 6 hours before making this recipe (overnight is ideal) and scoop the solid coconut cream from each can.
2. Add cream of tartar to the coconut milk. Begin whipping it using the highest speed setting on your hand mixer (or stand mixer with whisk attachment).
3. Slowly add granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time.
4. Scrape the bowl and add the remaining ingredients including vanilla extract, pumpkin puree and spices.
5. Refrigerate an hour before serving and top with coconut whipped cream and candied pecans.

"Make extra because you will want leftovers," Bae said. "You can even add it to oatmeal for a pumpkin-lovers breakfast."

Chef Bae also has more delicious pumpkin-based dessert recipes available on her website.

Fitwaffle (Eloise Head)

British social media baker Fitwaffle (real name Eloise Head) may be young, but she's wise when it comes to putting together sweet treats. Her new book Baking It Easy is a Sunday Times bestseller in the United Kingdom that compiles all of her mouth-watering three-ingredient recipes in one place.

She regularly shares recipes for indulgent desserts with her 4.7 million TikTok followers and 3.2 million Instagram user across her two channels, @fitwaffle and @fitwafflekitchen. While U.K.-based, Head has the perfect American-themed dessert fit for a Thanksgiving treat: Thick NYC Christmas Cookies.

"They're soft in the middle and crisp on the outside," Head told Newsweek.

Thick NYC Christmas Cookies ingredients:

• 115g of room-temperature unsalted butter
• 160g of light brown sugar
• 40g of granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla
• 315g of plain flour
• 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 150g of white chocolate chips/chunks. Additional white chocolate optional for melting
• 100g of red and green M&Ms
• 3 tablespoons of festive sprinkles

Steps

1. Mix the butter and both sugars in a bowl with a spoon to form a paste. Crack the egg and pour in the vanilla, then mix again until it's all combined. Then add the flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt, mix it up with your hands to form a dough. Finally, add your assortment of chocolate and candies and mix these into the dough using your hands too.
2. Scoop up 90g of the dough and roll it into a ball and place on a cookie sheet ready for baking. Repeat this step as many times as you can to make multiple cookies
3. Place the tray of dough balls into the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes at 180 degrees Celcius (356 degrees Fahrenheit), or 160 degrees Celsius (320 degrees Fahrenheit) in a fan oven.
4. For some added sweetness, drizzle on melted white chocolate once cool, before adding further sprinkles.

"And that's it," Head said. "They're so delicious and perfect for the holidays. Enjoy."

Fitwaffle's social media channels are filled with tons of alternative holiday-themed desserts to bake.

Update 11/23/22 3 a.m. ET: This article was updated to change the main thumbnail.