Thanksgiving
It may be my absolute favorite holiday ever created because it revolves around three crucial components of life: food, friends, and family. The only expectations are good food, trills of laughter, and moments of reflection for all we are blessed to have.
I always lean towards unique desserts that highlight seasonal flavors when it comes to Thanksgiving; while many of the items below are offered year round, these curated offerings are gifts that will add a rare beauty to your Thanksgiving culinary experience. However, I am more than happy to fulfill any requests you may have for traditional or other unique dessert offerings. Anything on this site is available to adorn your Thanksgiving table!
From my kitchen to your table, I offer you these distinct, delectable, unique dessert and food offerings to bring joy and wow factor to your Thanksgiving table.
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All orders must be placed by November 14, 2020 for mailing no later than November 20.
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All pickup and delivery orders must be placed by November 14, and picked up/delivered by November 22.
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If there's a Death by Chocolate, then this cake is its coffee-loving cousin. Meet Murder by Mocha. Another fan favorite, this stunning cake is two layers of dense, deeply chocolaty cake with a hint of coffee, topped with a decadently amazing mocha frosting that’s so fluffy it’s hard to smooth out!
Now Coffee lovers rejoice!
So, yes, this gives you license to have this cake in the morning…it’s got coffee in it. And milk…and eggs.
Feeds approximately 10-15 people.
Allergens: wheat, eggs, milk
Pickup or delivery only.
Every table holds a chocolate lover, so indulge your chocolate fans this Thanksgiving with this insane chocolate cake swathed in fluffy mocha mascarpone frosting.
Another old-fashioned tube/bundt cake which has amazing versatility - breakfast, snack, teatime, dessert...clients have willfully eaten it for all these purposes! My grandfather’s wife was notorious for cakes like this…she’d see company coming, and would bake up one of these homestyle cakes to have ready, and we’d all sit down around the kitchen table and pause for a few moments to enjoy simple deliciousness.
Loaded with fresh apples, raisins, and toasted pecans, this dense, moist cake won't be in your kitchen too long. While it’s seemingly most delightful when apples are in season in the Fall, this is a year-round cake that will make everyone who eats it slow down, and enjoy it’s nostalgic old-fashioned flavors that evokes moments of joy.
Do you need another reason to eat cake for breakfast?? Fruit, eggs, healthy nuts… Again, no judgement. Been there. Done that.
Feeds 8-12 people.
Allergens: wheat, eggs, tree nuts (pecans), milk
Cake will easily ship or is available for pickup and delivery.
Never underestimate something that is simple looking. Another humble cake with an amazing flavor profile which will add joy to your Thanksgiving dessert table. Chocked full of flavors of the harvest season: apples, toasted pecans, and plump raisins!
Why just do just caramel when you can do Bourbon & Pepper Caramels.
I don’t know about you, but I love me some boozy candy! Sorry folks under 21…
Made with our own honey and a little help from my friend Jim (Beam, that is), these surprising, deliciously soft Bourbon Black Pepper Caramels start with a soft bourbon taste and end with a peppery finish, creating a unique flavor explosion in your mouth!
They can even become Bourbon Salt and Pepper Caramels, which are equally as delightful!
If you’re looking for a truly uncommon gift for yourself or a friend, this sweet surprise will meet that challenge in spades!
Makes 56-64 caramels.
Allergens: milk
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Another great hostess gift option, but also an incredible and unique flavor bomb, these Bourbon Black Pepper Caramels will enchant your guests!
Actual comments about Nan’s Tomato Flip:
“Oh my goooddd, that tomato jam on a mushroom Swiss burger, soooo good!”
“I feel like I need to hide it from my family and ration it because it’s so good.”
“Can I buy this by the case?” [the answer would be yes]
“Honestly, I eat it by the spoonful, but yes, it’s very nice on cheese and crackers.”
After proclaiming to be an avid tomato hater, one client texted me the following day saying, “I need another jar because I ate half the jar the night before with just a spoon.”
Trust me, so many people tell me repeatedly they can’t get past just eating it out of the jar with a spoon. Of this, I, too, am guilty.
The above quotes are from people who swoon over Tomato Flip. In a jar, it just looks “normal,” but this might be the most special thing I make.
Meet Nan’s Tomato Flip. The name isn’t one I necessarily gave it, but rather one honoring the woman who gave the recipe to me - my husband’s late maternal grandmother. It would be considered an heirloom recipe.
Think of a loose set tomato jam spiced with warm, sweet spices.
If you’ve had this, you know it’s converted non-tomato lovers. You know it’s stunning with any type of cheese and crackers, elevating your charcuterie board to heavenly heights. You know it adds depth and layers of flavor to any sandwich. It’s been deliciously added to eggs, meat and potatoes…anything your heart desires, it makes even better. Or take it from several people who do it, it’s damned delicious just by the spoonful.
If you’ve had this, you know you’re willing to do whatever it takes to get more because it’s that special.
An 8oz jar is perhaps the best $9 you will ever spend. And I promise you, you’ll come back for more.
There are pictures of Margaret Karp included in this writeup, aka Nan, the woman who inspired this creation. This - she - is the legacy I share with you when I share my Tomato Flip. She was a phenomenal woman who did so many things in her life, but I simply knew her as a loving woman who adored being surrounded by her family and friends. A woman who derived absolute joy from all the babies in our family who surrounded her. When I share the joy of Tomato Flip with you, I share with you a piece of history of an incredible woman. It’s my honor to make this jam every year and remember so many wonderful moments of family and laughter.
I hope when you enjoy this jam, you’re making your own amazing memories.
8oz jars
Available to ship nationwide or for pickup or delivery.
Great things come in small packages, and this is no exception. If you’ve never had this, click on the title and read the full description. If you have indulged in this sublime treat, make sure to grab several jars for hostess gifts and your charcuterie board this Thanksgiving!
The first day of Fall is the first day I will discuss pumpkins, people. It’s a matter of principle. Apples and pears deserve their moment in the Fall sunshine.
Delightfully flavored just like a pumpkin pie, this healthy granola is loaded with warm spices and real pumpkin, and is jam packed with pumpkin seeds and whole pecans.
This perfectly crunchy and mildly sweet granola is so good, when the trial batch was perfected, we gobbled up half the pan before we realized it!
As the cooler Fall days creep in, this is the perfect way to warm up your breakfast or snack time!
When you dump fistfuls of this granola on your yogurt and fruit in the morning, you will be blissfully wallowing in the spirit of Fall...pumpkins and all! Warm up your breakfast or snack time with all things pumpkin - granola, that is!!
Makes approximately 1 - 1 1/2 lbs granola.
Allergens: nuts (pecans)
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Pumpkin Pie Granola would make a great hostess gift or a healthy option for your yogurt the day after food coma status. It’s just good to nosh on while you’re making that dinner too!
Imagine a cinnamon bun met a sticky bun, and they had a love baby. That’s what this Cinnamon Loaf is about - the best of both worlds combined into one gorgeous creation.
Just pure gooey, crunchy love.
This love child has a gorgeous caramelized crust on the outside from being baked in a ceramic crock with a special type of sugar. It’s braided and then rolled into a circle so the gooey cinnamon is ever present in every bite, and Georgia pecans are studded throughout.
You should be getting yourself or someone you love this loaf of pure cinnamony happiness.
Because sweet bread and cinnamon… drool.
Slice it and toast it with good butter, or make it into insane French toast! However you choose to eat it, this sticky, cinnamony bread topped with toasted pecans will make your life pure bliss.
Makes one round loaf, giving you endless possibilities for consumption.
Allergens: wheat, nuts (pecans), milk, soy
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Want to change up the traditional bread at the Thanksgiving table for something sweet, spicy, crunchy, and all together crazy yummy? Give this Love Baby a whirl!
These Pecan Rugelach cookies are kinda like a brand of chips when they say, “Betcha can’t eat just one.”
These melt in your mouth Pecan Rugelach are perfect bite-sized deliciousness to try to keep in your cookie jar; they will also add panache to any dessert table, or simply everyday coffee or tea.
The traditional form for Hanukkah is done with walnuts, but this Southern girl prefers the flavor of Southern puh-khans far better. And these will get made year-round in this house!
Fluffy, pillowy soft dough and crunchy, sweet Southern pecan filling made with our own honey makes these cookies just petite perfection.
There is zero exaggeration when I say I can easily eat the entire large batch!!! While I know this makes a large amount, these cookies aren’t very large - they’re petite, actually; you’ll have popped about 6 in your mouth before you realize what’s happening. I say this from experience. You will, too, once you have them.
Repeat clients lovingly call these bite-sized treats Crack Cookies because you’ll keep coming back for just one more. And another…
Please note the half batch isn’t half the price because it still requires me to make the full batch of cookies kinda deal…
You’ll receive: Full Batch: 64 smaller cookies (2 lb 5oz). Half batch: 32 smaller cookies.
Allergens: wheat, nuts (pecans), milk
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Pecans are a Fall harvest, and what better way to celebrate this delicious nut than with a batch of these bite sized bundles of joy??!!
Maple syrup season is that moment in early spring when the grounds are still covered in snow, but the sun starts to strengthen, and the flowers awaken from their winter slumber. The days are longer, and ground is soggy, and the smell of cooking sap floods the air.
It’s quite a lovey time in New England, and getting to a local sugar shack to get freshly made maple syrup makes the long winter not seem so terrible. As our children grew up in the New England skiing circuit, we would always stop at some Mom and Pop sugar shack along the side of the back roads of New Hampshire, Vermont, or Maine and get a gallon of the good, dark, flavorful deep amber liquid gold.
These fluffy Maple Walnut or Pecan Scones, made with local New England maple syrup and dotted with chopped walnuts or pecans, then slathered in a thick maple glaze that tastes like melted maple candy, are pure New England scrumptiousness.
Choose either walnuts or pecans - both are equally delicious!
Available year round.
Makes 24 scones.
Allergens: milk, wheat, eggs, nut (walnuts)
Available for pickup or delivery only.
Somewhere along the way, maple became a Fall flavor… that is a trend thingee, because we New Englanders know maple is a Spring harvest thingee. Regardless, it’s a year-round delight, so go ahead and play on that maple as a trendy Fall flavor!
A homestyle, old-fashioned tube cake with sooo many twists! Crunchy Asian Pears from our property are loaded into the cake batter with warm spices and citrus to create a unique, insanely delicious flavor profile that will keep you coming back for piece after piece! This cake is only available during the Fall and early winter while the Asian Pears hold their crunch.
Sometimes the inner workings of a humble looking cake need to be shown in order to fully appreciate what makes the otherwise simple appearance utterly phenomenal in taste. the last picture is the inside of the humble looking Asian Pear Cake. But if you’ve never had an Asian pear, then you don’t know that while they soften some while baking, they don’t totally lose their crispness, and this cake is STUDDED with chunks of Asian pears and two layers of sliced pear pieces. Combined with her hearty dose of warm spices and citrus twist, she makes for a truly unique, mouth-watering cake where you can fully appreciate every component of the flavor profile.
She needs nothing, but if you want to dress her up, maybe a light dusting of confectioner’s sugar will do.
This cake easily freezes.
A) Twists in baking are my signature style.
B) I like a humble looking cake that surprises me with its taste.
C) This is your excuse to eat cake with breakfast. It’s healthy: it has eggs, fruit, fruit juice…
D) I’ve done it, so I pass zero judgement.
Feeds approximately 8-10 people.
Allergens: wheat, eggs
This cake will ship or is available for pickup or delivery.
Humble in appearance, and stunning in flavor, this Asian Pear cake will leave your guests wondering how something so simple looking can be so deliciously flavorful.
This cake surprised everyone when they first tried it with how good it was (and it was gluten free by request). It’s a brilliant combination of spices that pair gorgeously with the pears on top. Its dense, moist base is loaded with spices, including a hearty dose of ginger, and then topped with beautifully arranged, thinly sliced pears. And the crust that forms on the edges is pure textural brilliance next to the soft cake.
That alone makes this cake stunning, but then drench it in our own honey mixed with spices that shine in the cake, and throw in a dose of edible stars, and suddenly, this cake just won some baking show you didn’t know you entered. [Spiced honey will be in a small jar].
If available, this cake will be made from Bartlett pears from our property. Because yes, pears, apples, blueberries, cherries, grapes, peaches - OH MY - all grow on our property, and the bees are happy little campers in the spring and summer.
Feeds approximately 8-10 people.
Allergens: wheat (unless choose gluten-free), milk, eggs
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery only.
As stunning in flavor as it is in looks, this spiced caked is topped with pears, and finished with a spiced honey. Wow your guests with this devastatingly gorgeous cake!
This is your moment, you crazy pumpkin fans! Run as fast as possible for your PSL because this is your new favorite Fall scone!
When the Fall foliage backdrop becomes irresistible here in New Hampshire, these delicious Pumpkin Cranberry Scones shine. With a lovely moistness, these scones are studded with dried cranberries, and topped with a bright citrus glaze that heightens all the flavors. And if that’s not enough, then they are topped off with sugared pepitas (pumpkin seeds) for a spectacular crunch factor.
When Fall comes, make sure to get your batch so you can sit outside and enjoy the gorgeous Fall flavors and colors!
You’ll receive 16 smaller scones.
Allergens: egg, wheat, milk
Available for pickup or local delivery only.
There’s always a day after…after the food coma has worn off, and you just can’t face the mess that was left from the night before, but you’re hungry for breakfast…These scones would fill the happy place. They would also make a great hostess gift or a delightful side to the Thanksgiving meal!
Sometimes a passing thought becomes a delicious recipe! This is my own recipe, which is a riff off the Asian Pear Cake I make. See those hunks of fruit? Those are Asian Pears from our orchard, and these Asian Pear scones are deliciously spiced with warm Fall spices and a hint of citrus.
An Asian Pear is one of those unsung hero fruits not too many people know about. It looks like an apple, crunches like an apple, but tastes like a pear. This fruit is not a hybrid, but a varietal that has been grown for close to 3,000 years in Asia, and oddly grows quite well here in Northern New England.
Harvested from our property in the early-mid Fall, these delicious pears keep their delightful crunch when baked. With the combination of warm spices, you’ll be cozying up with a cup of coffee or tea and watching the foliage turn. I couldn’t resist putting one against the backdrop of the stunning foliage that was coming to a peak!
I challenge you to eat just one. No one I’ve known has pulled this off. They’re so good, you go back in for second breakfast and elevensies (if you’re a Hobbit).
These scones are available from Fall-early winter, as long as the pears hold their crunch.
Makes 16 smaller scones.
Allergens: wheat, milk, eggs
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Need a delicious and unique hostess gift or a delightful side to the Thanksgiving meal!? Want to just sit and enjoy something stunning the day after turkey? Need some unique flavor to help you find unique gifts on Black Friday? This Asian Pear Scone is your answer in one bite sized morsel of deliciousness.
Apple Pie Granola combines early Fall’s shining star, the glorious apple, with all the warm, sweet spices we love in our apple pies!
Loaded with pecans, healthy flax, and chewy dried apples, that are both baked in and added on top after baking, this granola will both brighten and warm your day with its pop of tartness from the dried apple and warmth of flavor from the spices!
Makes approximately 1 - 1 1/2 pounds of granola.
Allergens: nuts (pecans)
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Keeping your strength up while you prepare a feast is crucial. Allow yourself to nosh on this granola, knowing it’s loaded with heart heathy oats! It will make a wonderful breakfast option the day after the food coma, also!
THESE!!!
I am a Southern girl, born and bred, and I love my sweet treats from home. Anything made with Georgia pecans has my heart, so these sticky, buttery, sweet, and salty Praline Pecans were bound to steal my heart!
This satisfies so many cravings: crunchy, sweet, salty...DELICIOUS!!
Quite simply, I dare you not to eat in all in one sitting they’re so flippin’ amazing!!
I didn’t know what other category to put these in, so since they’re basically a candied pecan, I decided they were functionally candy.
One batch makes approximately one pound.
Allergens: nuts (pecans), milk
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Net weight: 1 lb
Shipping Weight: 1.6 lb
The perfect part of a charcuterie board or a lovely hostess gift! It’s buttery, crunchy, salty, and sweet all in one package!
I found this recipe around Father’s Day and it seemed like a cookie my Daddy would like; therefore, it must be called the Mac Daddy.
But my Dad isn’t Mac. He’s Alan. It just sounded weird to called it the Alan Daddy cookie. Sorry, bad baker humor.
This Boozy Bake (so 21+ only, please) is made with browned butter, stuffed with toasted buttered pecans, loads of chocolate, a kick of Kentucky bourbon, and topped with a hint of sea salt. And if that’s not enough - because it never is - the pièce de résistance is that this delight is topped with a pecan soaked in Kentucky bourbon!
These Mac Daddy cookies are a flavor bomb in your mouth…sit fireside with a highball of bourbon and nibble on this delight, or plop some butter pecan ice cream between 2 cookies and make one of the most dee-vine ice cream sandwiches you’ve ever had! Or put some butter pecan ice cream (or whatever flavor your wee heart desires) in a bowl, put one (or 3) of these cookies in with it, and drizzle bourbon caramel sauce over. You should be drooling by now.
I think maybe I should’ve called myself the Boozy Baker…
Makes 18 cookies - yes 18 cookies are $42. It’s about $2.30-ish a cookie, and pecans ain’t cheap. Nor is bold bourbon.
Allergens: wheat, eggs, soy, nuts (pecans)
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or local delivery.
This cookie is everything! Boozy, chocolatey, crunchy, and purely addictive! It’s going to spice up your dessert table in all the best ways possible!
Fall is, by far, my favorite season, and apples are, indeed, my favorite Fall flavor. Apples cross the bridge between late summer days when it’s still fairly warm, and the early Fall days where the air starts to become crisper, but pumpkin season hasn’t yet come into full roar.
Having a perfectly creamy caramel texture that is melded with the flavor of fresh apple cider, these velvety caramels will last weeks in an airtight bag/container so you can enjoy them little by little!
Creamy Sea Salted Apple Cider Caramels...need I say more?!
While these seem to be more delicious in the Fall because that’s when apples are in peak season, these caramels are available year round.
One batch is 56+ caramels. Maybe it’s a lot. Not really. NO ONE has ever complained saying there were leftovers because they didn’t get eaten… Just sayin’.
These will stay fresh for several weeks - if they last that long - in an airtight container at room temperature.
Allergens: milk
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
You can nosh all day on these bite-sized morsels of apple deliciousness! These would make a wonderful hostess gift or put them in a bowl and watch your guests eyes roll back with happiness!
In New England, we have a multitude of versions of every season before the weather actually plays the real part of the season.
For example: Winter. Early Spring. Polar Vortex. Fool’s Spring. Second Winter. Actual Spring. And that’s typically around May.
Watching snow fly in mid-April, or even as early as October 15 makes most of us New Englanders want to cry. Even some June days have dropped to the lower 50s up here.
My solution is to bake comfort, like Ginger Molasses Cookies.
Wonderfully soft (even after setting out all night) because of a secret syrup, with a crunch due to sparkling sugar, you can taste and feel the slight bite of the host of warm spices in these cookies. They are quintessential comfort and calling to your like a Siren.
And for the record, they make absurdly delicious ice cream sandwiches all year round.
You’ll receive 36 cookies that will freeze well.
Allergens: wheat, eggs, milk
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Cookies are a mainstay dessert in our house, so these seasonally flavored Ginger Molasses Cookies are something I wanted to make sure was available for your dessert table this Thanksgiving! Go get some pumpkin ice cream and make absurdly delicious ice cream sandwiches with them!
Apple Cinnamon Scones are one of those scones that can be made year round, but there is something nostalgic about making these in the Fall when the apples are bright and crisp on the trees, and the smell of Fall is crisp in the air as you go apple picking.
These scones are stuffed with our own apples when we have a good growing year - if our apples don’t look good, then I pick them at local farms - and laden with warm, sweet spices. Finished off with a sprinkle of sparkling sugar, these are as lovely as they are scrumptious.
Order yourself a does of fluffy, moist scones that will transport you to the days of apple picking with the family!
Makes 16 smaller scones.
Allergens: wheat, eggs, milk
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Often times people think of scones as a breakfast treat, and they are one of the most delightful breakfast treats around, but don’t sell these beauties short because they can easily function as a side for the Thanksgiving meal! But, they are another delicious day after breakfast option to help you hit the Black Friday sales with gusto!
I’m going to let you in on a secret: I’m not a huge pumpkin season fan. Nor am I a fan of ginger.
A baker who doesn’t like pumpkin or ginger?! <gasp>
So when I bit into these thick, moist, fluffy Harvest Oat Scones, chocked full of spicy bits of ginger, I was thoroughly surprised that my instantaneous response was, “OMG, these are INCREDIBLE!”
Because they are!
Moist is rarely a term associated with scones, but these fluffy, scones are so, so good, and the bits of ginger...wow! For a non-fan to rave...well, those of you who love it, will ADORE these Harvest Oat Scones!!
Makes 12 scones.
Allergens: wheat, milk, eggs
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Scones are certainly for breakfasts and snacks, and all moments in between, but think of how amazing these would be with your Thanksgiving feast!
Take a sweet vanilla cake and top it with apples and oodles of strudel and you have this delicious beauty. Take a good look at the picture of the side of the cake, and you’ll see drool-worthy caramelization.
This cake captures crunch from the pecans and apples and buttery notes from the cake and crumble…you should be drooling by now. This doll of a cake is as versatile as she is delicious: she begins this day with you and your cup of coffee or tea, greets you in the afternoon for a quick nosh, and then dresses up beautifully for you with a scoop of ice cream for dessert after dinner.
She is humble, but you know the saying - Never judge a book by its cover. Get to know her and you’ll come back for her again and again because of the beautiful taste.
Feeds approximately 8-12 people
Allergens: milk, wheat, eggs, nuts (pecans)
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Humble looking and packed with Fall yumminess! This Apple Strudel Cake is studded with apples and topped with crunchy pecans and loaded with Strudel!
I like to use summer-ripened fruits and veggies, so I’ve always thought of these Zucchini Butterscotch Blondies as a summer treat, but when someone called in the dead of winter and asked me for more veggies in their diet - AKA they needed a fix of what they called crack bars - who am I to deny that craving??
These bars are loaded with butterscotchy deliciousness, and the zucchini isn’t a flavor...its presence only makes them densely, insanely moist. And moist is a good word in the baking world.
Want more veggies in your diet?? Order a batch today and you’ll come to know why they can be called crack bars.
You’ll get approximately 12-16 thick bars.
Allergens: wheat, egg, milk, soy
Available for pickup or local delivery only.
Nothing says bounty of harvest like the every abundant zuke! I’ve taken that vegetable and made is INSANELY delish in this blondie! A fun welcome variant to the Thanksgiving dessert table!
Why just do just caramel when you can do Bourbon & Pepper Caramels.
I don’t know about you, but I love me some boozy candy! Sorry folks under 21…
Made with our own honey and a little help from my friend Jim (Beam, that is), these surprising, deliciously soft Bourbon Black Pepper Caramels start with a soft bourbon taste and end with a peppery finish, creating a unique flavor explosion in your mouth!
They can even become Bourbon Salt and Pepper Caramels, which are equally as delightful!
If you’re looking for a truly uncommon gift for yourself or a friend, this sweet surprise will meet that challenge in spades!
Makes 56-64 caramels.
Allergens: milk
Available for nationwide shipping, pickup, or delivery.
Surprise your hostess and/or your guests with these soft, gooey, boozy caramels that have a hint of a kick of black pepper spice!
“I am grateful for all I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
-Henry David Thoreau