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These are the perfect fall appetizer—they've got everything you love from green bean casserole, but are SO much easier to make. Hot tip: Make extra, these go fast!
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Green Bean Casserole Bundles
These particular pecans are our #1: SUPER spiced, crunchy, sweet, and salty. They're great eaten by the handful, as an accompaniment to a cheese board, or even sprinkled over salads during the main course this Thanksgiving.
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Spiced Candied Pecans
Pull-apart bread reaches a whole new level, thanks to brie and cranberry sauce. Use your favorite homemade sauce recipes, but store-bought works too if you're short for time.
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Cranberry Brie Pull-Apart Bread
Even if you're not serving turkey this Thanksgiving doesn't mean you can't get in on the theme. Enter: this adorable cheeseball. We used carrots, pecans, pretzels, and bell peppers to create the iconic look, but feel free to sub out for different ingredients for what you have on hand. Serve it with crackers and use the decorations as dippers too!
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Turkey Cheese Ball
If you're unfamiliar with dates, it's time to familiarize yourself! The date's sweetness is the PERFECT counterpoint to crisp, salty bacon and creamy goat cheese. We guarantee these will fly off the platter when your guests have barely begun to arrive, so make extra.
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Bacon-Wrapped Dates
Our love for crescent roll recipes is no secret. Why make dough from scratch when everyone loves the canned stuff?! These are a fan favorite every fall. They always disappear within minutes, probably because the combo of salty, creamy brie, sweet-tart cranberry sauce, and crunchy pecans is PERFECT.
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Cranberry Brie Bites
Looking for an appetizer that doubles at a centerpiece? This cheesy, savory crescent ring is perfect for your holiday gathering. And if it's a vegetarian app you're after, we'd suggest subbing in sautéed mushrooms for the bacon.
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Bacon Brie Crescent Wreath
Pumpkins are pretty amazing. One of their best (and often overlooked) attributes is their seeds! They’re super-easy to prepare and make a seriously delicious snack. They're great prepared super simply, roasted with salt and melted butter, but the variations are completely endless, so get creative.
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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
To make these, we stuff baby bella mushrooms with garlicky, herby bread crumbs and plenty of cheese. Stuff them ahead of time and bake them off when you're ready for the most Thanksgiving-friendly appetizer ever.
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Stuffed Mushrooms
Filled with creamy potatoes, crispy bacon, cheese, chives, and herbs, we think these bombs of savory flavor are perfect all on their own. But feel free to add and experiment! If you want to try dunking these, they'd be great in sour cream, homemade ranch dressing or even our sriracha butter if you want a kick of rich heat.
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Fried Mashed Potato Balls
If you’re a fan of our cranberry brie bites, we’ve got news for you: There’s a new app in town, and it’s inspired by another fan fave, baked feta pasta. This cheesy finger food features the flavors you know and love, all nestled into bite-sized cups of golden crescent roll dough.
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Baked Feta Bites
Your veggie platter deserves more than a sad store-bought dip. This easy dill dip comes together in mere minutes and is bright and fresh and makes every veggie sing. Serve it alongside this ultimate chips and dip platter for the best party spread ever.
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Dill Dip
Crunchy, flaky, and cheesy. What's not to love? These are studded with cheddar, green onions, and sesame seeds for the most flavor-packed cheese straws we've ever had. Using store-bought puff pastry makes them extremely easy to pull together for last-minute Thanksgiving too.
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Cheese Straws
Just like a stuffed mushroom, this finger food has a delicious filling of bread crumbs, Parmesan, and minced garlic. Yum!
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Stuffed Brussels Sprouts
Sweet potato casserole is always a favorite at our Thanksgiving celebrations, so we thought we'd turn it into an appetizer too. These bites will go fast, so make extra!
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Sweet Potato Bites
These cheese puffs (aka gougères) are a triple threat: easy to make, impressive looking, and insanely delicious. And the good news is you probably already have most (or all) of the ingredients.
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Cheese Puffs
Frying okra is the best way to enjoy the intimidating vegetable. Dredging it in buttermilk and cornmeal, then frying in a small amount of oil achieves that extra crispy and golden crust. It's a Southern staple that is the perfect appetizer for a soul food-inspired Thanksgiving.
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Fried Okra
Breaded and fried, it's so fun to eat ravioli with your hands and dipping it in plenty of marinara. Bonus: Toasted ravioli works in the air fryer too! Try these with all those seasonal raviolis you can find in the fall for the perfect, easy Thanksgiving app.
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Toasted Ravioli
These easy bites are perfect for any Thanksgiving celebration. We love their little pretzel handles, but feel free to leave them out or even make one huge cheeseball instead!
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Loaded Cheese Ball Bites
If you love baked spinach dip, you'll love these baked puff pastry puffs. They're filled with a mixture of sautéed onion, garlic, spinach, and cream cheese and baked inside little puff pastry cups in a muffin tin. Bet you can't eat just one!
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Spinach Puffs
Move over, Thanksgiving leftover sandwich. We’ve taken the best flavors of Thanksgiving—tart cranberries, savory stuffing, and moist turkey—and combined them with pretzels for extra buttery deliciousness and added texture, and turned the best of the holiday into an impressive little meatball.
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Turkey & Stuffing Meatballs
Cranberry brie bites are by far one of our favorite appetizers for the holidays, but jalapeño poppers also have place in our hearts. The combination is really amazing. The spice of the jalapeño goes so well with the tart cranberries and the added bonus of wrapping the whole thing in prosciutto (or use bacon) is just extraordinary.
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Cranberry Brie Jalapeño Poppers
A cheese board is one of the best appetizers to serve at a holiday gathering because it's easy to execute, shareable, and totally customizable. What's better than a gorgeous wooden board piled high with a variety of high-quality cheeses, cured meats, silky spreads (like fig jam!), nuts, fruit, and more?
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Ultimate Holiday Cheese Board
We kept this fairly easy for you by utilizing box mac & cheese here. If you'd like to go full homemade, though, our 3-cheese mac and cheese is a great start.
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Mac & Cheese Balls
These ham and cheese pinwheels are made easy using store-bought crescent roll dough. They are chock-full of melty cheese and savory-sweet ham, topped with fresh parsley and toasty poppy seeds for texture and flavor you and your guests will love.
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Ham & Cheese Pinwheels
These little brie, cranberry, and pecan crostini are the perfect low-carb appetizer for any fall party. You might never go back to just serving crackers!
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Sweet Potato Crostini
Having multiple Thanksgivings this year? Want to transform your leftovers from one into something incredible for the next? Look no further than this stuffed bread ring—it's gorgeous and super easy, thanks to store-bought crescent roll dough.
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Thanksgiving Ring
We kind of love how well this hummus really walks the line between sweet and savory. It tastes just as good with cinnamon-sugar pita chips as it does with bell peppers.
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Pumpkin Hummus
Brussels sprouts make the CUTEST slider buns. We used brie here, but feel free to sub for fresh mozzarella or whatever you like.
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Brussels Sprouts Sliders
Cranberry sauce, BBQ sauce, sweet chili sauce, and Worcestershire sauce combine to make the incredible sauce for these meatballs. It's sweet, smoky, and salty, and your Thanksgiving party guests won't be able to stop eating them.
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Cocktail Meatballs
You will NOT be able to stop eating these little guys. They're the perfect amount of sweet and savory, so you can serve them before or after the big meal!
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Sweet Potato Crescent Bites
There's something very classic about the crescent roll dough flavor, so we tend to gravitate toward it, but puff pastry or even biscuit dough both should work here too.
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Best-Ever Pigs In A Blanket
We filled ours with raspberry jam, but use your favorite spread or jelly. Drizzle it with some honey and you'll have a warm, cheesy app that feels extra fancy in no time at all.
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Baked Brie In Puff Pastry
Not only are are Brussels our favorite veggie side, they're now our favorite salty, crunchy snack! We love this garlic-Parm variety dipped in Caesar dressing, but ranch wouldn't be a bad idea either.
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Brussels Sprout Chips
Many of you might be thinking: "Wait, what even is a sausage ball?!" The answer: addictive bites of cooked pork sausage, cheddar, and Bisquick that will be the most popular appetizer at your Thanksgiving get-together.
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Sausage Balls
Not only is this dip perfect for fall parties, it's the best way to use up any extra homemade cranberry sauce! If you don't have any of those, canned works too. Just make sure you use whole berry—not jellied—canned cranberry sauce.
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Cranberry Brie Biscuit Dip
Fresh tortellini make these the hearty bite-size appetizer of our dreams. Feel free to swap in and out your favorite ingredients (these are a great way to serve leftover Thanksgiving recipe odds and ends too!).
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Antipasto Bites
These seasonal potstickers are a great alternative to classic Thanksgiving appetizers. They're easy to put together and most of your time is spent roasting your squash until really tender, which can be done ahead of time. Crimping takes a little practice, but the good news is that even if they look a little wonky they are still going to taste great!
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Butternut Squash Potstickers
Spanakopita is a popular savory Greek spinach pie frequently served as cut pieces from a whole slab pie, but we made individual pockets to save you the waiting time between baking, cooling, then slicing. As soon as they pop out of the oven, they're ready to be plated and devoured by your hungry guests, no knives necessary.
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Spinach Spanakopita
Start off with something light before the heavier main event (hello, mashed potatoes!). This dip is so easy to make and comes together in minutes. Serve it with all of your favorite veggies, good bread, or crackers.
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Veggie Dip
Making your own apple chips is extremely easy—even without a fancy dehydrator. All you need is your trusty air fryer and some crispy apples, like Honeycrisps, Granny Smiths, or Pink Ladies.
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Apple Chips
The candied walnuts are good enough to eat on their own. But on a roasted Brussels sprout half that's topped with brie, these walnuts are NEXT LEVEL.
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Candied Walnut Brussels Sprout Bites
The smoky bacon bits here make this baked spinach dip feel a little fancier, but you can totally skip it. This dip has so much going on with three different cheeses, that no one will miss the bacon.
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Bacon Spinach Dip
Looking for an amazing dip sure to start your party off right? Look no further. This beer cheese dip is calling your name. Simply put, it’s one of those dishes where two awesome recipes come together... and make something even MORE incredible.
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Pretzel Ring Beer Cheese Dip
If spinach artichoke dip is one of those things you get really excited about a party but you often feel like it takes too much effort to make at home, this slow-cooker version is for you. Don’t bother turning on the oven (especially when you have other appetizers to bake—cranberry brie bites, perhaps?).
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Crockpot Spinach Artichoke Dip
The best way to make spinach-artichoke dip taste even more delish? Adding Boursin for a supremely creamy texture.
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Slow-Cooker Boursin Spinach-Artichoke Dip
Nothing upgrades your cheeseboard like fig jam. Delicious with pretty much any type of cheese, from creamy Camembert to salty Gouda, this jam has become a permanent fixture in our charcuterie spread.
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Fig Jam
Sure, no one can resist a bowl of potato chips, but they can be a little boring. Switch things up by making these delicious and absolutely gorgeous sweet potato chips. The natural, earthy sweetness of the potatoes add an another dimension of flavor that is lacking from a regular potato chip.
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Sweet Potato Chips
You only need 4 ingredients to throw together these easy appetizers—perfect for when the main meal is taking just a bit longer than you expected to get to the table. Serve them with BBQ sauce, ranch dressing, or whatever you like.
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Bacon-Wrapped Sweet Potato Fries
Inspired by the bloomin' onion, this bread is perfect for friends to dig into together. Tearing the bread and dipping in the melty cheese makes this the funnest (and tastiest) appetizer ever!
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Bloomin' Brie Bread
These cute apps make classic potatoes au gratin more fun, and infinitely poppable. The trick to getting the perfect stack? Muffin tins!
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Potato Gratin Stacks
This cheeseball is equal parts sweet, salty, crunchy, and nutty. Basically heaven. It'll keep your guests coming back for more, and keep them out of your hair while you cook dinner in the kitchen. Win win!
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Caramel Apple Cheese Ball
Mini pickles, a creamy cheddar and cream cheese filling, bacon?! What more could you want. These are like upgraded pigs in a blanket, for pickle lovers.
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Bacon Wrapped Pickles
Here, we set out to make crispy delicious green beans, minus the deep frying. Our solve? Panko breadcrumbs and your air fryer, which give the benefit of tempura's delicious crunch, without the need for a pot of hot, spattering oil or a classic tempura batter (since wet batters don't do well in the air fryer).
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Air Fryer Tempura-Inspired Green Beans
Over the bacon trend? Pssh. Twirl slices around Brussels sprouts for a super simple finger food to remember.
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Bacon Brussels Sprout Skewers
Just putting out veggies and dip this year? We support it! Make them more festive by forming them into the shape of a turkey. Your guests will love it (and it might just get the kids table to eat more veggies).
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Crudite Turkey
Baked brie is the easiest appetizer to rely on when you're hosting: simply throw it in the oven to warm up for 10 minutes and put it out with some bread or crackers. But! Why would you take the path most traveled? Change it up this year with maple and bacon for the perfect fall twist on the classic.
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Maple Bacon Baked Brie
This cheese log is the best thing to bring to all of your holiday parties. Why? It only has 8 ingredients, it comes together in less than an hour (including hands-off time in the fridge), and it's delicious.
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Bacon Pecan Cheese Log
Everyone loves a good stuffed mushroom. In fact, we'd venture to say it's one of the world's best party snacks along with the old standbys deviled eggs & pigs in a blanket. This version is even MORE irresistible with the addition of sweet, tender crab, fresh green onions, and rich cream cheese.
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Crab Artichoke Stuffed Mushrooms
Appetizers don't just have to be savory! Give your baked brie a fun fall twist by topping it with sweet, caramelized apples.
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Caramel Apple Brie
This is the easiest app to whip together (it even works in the air fryer) and everyone will love it. 3 simple ingredients come together in an hour and can turn any gathering into a party.
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Bacon Snack Bites
If you're looking for an easy holiday appetizer, sausage stuffed mushrooms are the perfect thing. They come together in less than hour and everyone will love the cheesy filling. For easy prep, stuff the mushrooms beforehand and bake off right before you plan to serve them. So simple!
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Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms
Shredded Brussels sprouts sautéed in a mixture of garlic and crushed red pepper, then topped on toasts with white cheddar is the perfect Thanksgiving appetizer that even Brussels haters can get behind.
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Cheesy Brussels Sprouts Mini Toasts
Replace the spinach with Brussels sprouts to take your basic spinach and artichoke dip to a whole new level. Your guests won't know what hit them.
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Cheesy Baked Brussels Sprout-Artichoke Dip