Thanksgiving dessert recipes

[TrudieC]

I am in the midst of a month long test to see if a gluten free diet improves my health.  My blood tests came back inconclusive.

Canadian Thanksgiving is next weekend and I want to take a dessert with me to our family dinner.  I would love to make either some kind of pumpkin or ginger snap cookies that are moist and tasty or any other traditional type of Thanksgiving dessert.  Anyone have anything good?

[CalGal]

I typically make pumpkin 'puddings' - but they're more like a light 'pie filling' than a pudding. My friends really like this one.

Ingredients:

2 eggs, separated (can use 3 if want 'thicker' consistency)
1 Cup sugar (divided)
1 ¼ cup canned pumpkin (15 oz can)
½ cup soy milk (can use regular milk, but my husband has casein intolerance, too)
½ tsp. salt
1 ½ tsp. pumpkin pie spice (I use Penzey's pre-mixed)
1 tsp vanilla extract
¼ cup cold water
1 envelope Knox gelatin

1. Separate eggs into yolks and whites. Set the egg whites aside.
2. Place egg yolks in a small heavy saucepan and beat lightly.
3. Add ½ cup sugar, pumpkin, milk, salt, pumpkin pie spice and vanilla.
4. Cook over low heat for about 15 min, stirring constantly. The consistency should be hot enough to thicken, but it shouldn’t be bubbling.
5. Remove saucepan from heat.
6. Pour water into a mixing bowl. Sprinkle gelatin powder over water. Don’t do this more than a minute before add the pumpkin mix, or the gelatin will set and won’t blend with the pumpkin.
7. Add hot pumpkin mixture and mix thoroughly and then cool.
8. While filling is cooling, whip the egg whites until frothy and then gradually add the ½ cup of sugar. Use the highest speed on the mixer and beat until the mixture is glossy and stiff (3-5 minutes).
9. Combine the cooled pumpkin mix with the egg whites by very gently folding together with a flexible spatula until creamy and blended.
10. When blended thoroughly, the filling will be a creamy, light orange.
11. Pour into individual serving dishes and chill for at least 2 hours before serving.

Prep time: About ½ hour from start to finish.

[CalGal]

Here's another one I made that my husband really liked: http://www.elanaspantry.com/pumpkin-cranberry-upside-down-cake/