Delicious Thanksgiving dessert ideas? Apple Pie and Chocolate Bundt Cake already being made.....

I made a whole thanksgiving dinner for some friends last week, and some of the guests brought pumpkin cheesecake. It was great!

I was going to make the pumpkin ice cream on David Leibowitz's blog and add in some pecans but may instead go for Melissa's Clark's pecan pie Merrill posted the other day. Or maybe omit the nuts from the ice cream and have pie and ice cream.

i have two persimmon recipes i'll be going back to as often as i can this season:

http://www.food52.com/recipes/7695_maple_persimmon_upsidedown_cake_with_maple_cream

http://www.food52.com/recipes/7665_spiced_persimmon_olive_oil_cake

I've been perusing the fabulous Essential New York Times Cookbook (thanks Amanda!) and I'm leaning towards doing the Lemon Cake (Ina Garten's originally) or Alice Water's Cranberry Upside down cake. Has anyone tried either of these?

Here's one on my to-do list (as in, this week's to-do list, so that I can be sure that the persimmons are dead ripe on the appointed day):

http://www.food52.com/recipes/2557_persimmon_chiffon_pie_with_a_gingersnap_crust

Cookies or cupcakes

for something casual, why not an oatmeal-cranberry-walnut sort of cookie? you get those great thanksgiving and fall flavors but it's not a boatload of extra work to round out the tgiving table. also, a bowl of crispy apples and fragrant pears to help cleanse palates before round two!

For the past 5 years, I've created a new tradition in my family of peanut butter pie. It's just like pumpkin pie, but different ;)

David Lebovitz' chocolate idiot cake.

Here's a recent thread on the same topic with lots of great ideas: .. http://www.food52.com/foodpickle/9152-different-turkey-day-dessert-ideas