Eat your dessert first! The fabled feast may be a big part of the Thanksgiving holiday, but for little pilgrims with a sweet tooth, dessert is the main attraction. While anything sweet will make tots happy, some Turkey Day-themed treats are even more exciting. Check out the following collection of Thanksgiving-themed treats that will inspire your own epic dessert table.
Turkey Rice Krispies Treats
Kids will flip for these turkey Rice Krispies treats — they even have a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup on them!
Turkey Cake Pops
These pops feature a very different kind of white meat — cake!
Turkey Cookie Pops
So fun and so easy, kids will have a blast making these turkey cookie pops on their own!
Pumpkin and Apple Pie Cookies
These may look like perfect little slices of pumpkin and apple pie, but they're actually frosted sugar cookies!
Gobble, Gobble Cake Pops
These cake pops have all of the best dessert elements — chocolate, pretzels, candy corn, and cake!
Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches
We've never met a kid who didn't love an ice cream sandwich [1]!
Turkey Pretzel Sticks
These turkey pretzel sticks would make adorable place settings.
Corn Husk Cookies
Cut sugar cookies with an ear-of-corn cookie cutter. Cover cookie with royal icing, and then line up yellow and brown candy (M&Ms) to resemble the corn kernels. Wrap green tissue paper around cookies for the husk.
Tom Turkey Cake Pops
These prancing turkey cake pops are almost too cute to eat. Almost.
Pilgrim Hat Cake Pop
Give pilgrims the respect they deserve with an homage to their classic headgear.
Turkey Cupcakes
These cupcakes are almost too pretty to eat . . . almost.
Chocolate Rice Cereal Turkeys
These rice cereal turkeys have a little fruit mixed in for a slightly healthy alternative!
Autumnal Cookies
These seasonally inspired acorns and leaves taste as good as they look, and the large, simple shapes are ideal for little hands intent on decorating their own dessert.
Pilgrim Cake Pops
These pilgrim cake pops can help you explain the meaning of the holiday to your kids.
Chocolate Turkey Cupcakes
Talk about chocolate madness!
Thanksgiving Cupcakes
These gorgeous cupcakes are pure Thanksgiving; it's pumpkin cake with pecan pie filling topped off with cranberry buttercream and fondant leaves and pumpkins. Yum!
Pilgrim Cookies
Nothing like some pilgrim cookies to get in the Thanksgiving spirit.
Turkey Cake Pops
Turkey cake pops make kids' mouths happy!
No-Bake Mum Cookies
These mum cookies [2] are almost too pretty to eat — almost!
Reese's Peanut Butter Turkeys
These Reese's Peanut Butter turkeys look amazing!
Acorn Snickerdoodle Cupcakes
A Fall-themed dessert that deserves a special spot at the Thanksgiving table, these acorn snickerdoodle cupcakes [3] may take a little extra attention to detail, but the result is well worth it!
Turkey Marshmallow Pops
No need to bother with cake pops! These marshmallow pops are equally fun.
Coconut-Cranberry Macaroon
Add the unexpected flavor of coconut to your selection of Thanksgiving sweets with these coconut-cranberry macaroons [4].
Double Cupcake Turkey Fun
Double the cupcake, double the Thanksgiving fun!
Gobble Gobble Turkey Cookies
The beautiful tail on these birds is achieved by simply using a toothpick to spread out the different colors.
Pie Pops
What's better than pie on your plate? Pie on a stick, of course!
Turkey Cake
Tom Turkey gets a cake makeover in time for the holiday here.
Nutter Butter Turkey Cupcakes
How cute are these Nutter Butter turkey cupcakes [5]?
Czech Squares
Cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves infuse Food Network's Czech squares [6] with Fall flavors. Kids can help cut out little leaves or turkeys to adorn their squares.