The 32 Best Thanksgiving Dinner Rolls, Biscuits and Quick Breads
Updated on October 06, 2025
Whether your family loves Parker House rolls, cornbread or buttermilk biscuits, these recipes make it easy to fill your holiday breadbasket with everyone’s favorite.
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Our Best Thanksgiving Bread Recipes
There’s nothing better than freshly baked bread—and Thanksgiving is the perfect time to make some. You’ve got a myriad of delicious options, most of which can be made in advance so you don’t have to give up any precious oven space on Turkey Day. Plus, breads are pretty versatile; no matter what else is on the menu you can choose just about any bread in this roundup and it’ll complement your meal perfectly. Trust us, whether you choose a fruit-and-nut-studded loaf, fluffy biscuits, buttery cornbread or an easy-to-make, no-yeast option, you’ll find that everyone has space on their plate when the breadbasket is passed around! You’ve got all the best Thanksgiving bread options right here, starting with a classic: Parker House Rolls. Ours are every bit as fluffy as you’d expect although we make them with a bit of a twist—we serve them with a trio of melted, flavored butters for dipping.
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Cornbread
Trust us, this will be your go-to recipe for cornbread — at Thanksgiving and all year long. You only need a handful of ingredients from the pantry and refrigerator and it’s a cinch to make.
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Buttermilk Cheddar Biscuits
Flaky and tender with sharp cheddar tucked in every layer, these Ina Garten Buttermilk Cheddar Biscuits turn a dinner roll into a savory highlight of your holiday breadbasket.
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Homemade Dinner Rolls
Soft, buttery and golden on top, these classic Homemade Dinner Rolls are the warm, pillowy must-have that completes any Thanksgiving breadbasket.
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Loaded Mashed Potato Rolls
These ultra-tender rolls have the potato to thank for their irresistibly light, pillowy texture. A mashed microwaved potato helps the dough retain moisture and brings softness to each tasty bite. We could have left these perfect rolls alone in all their glory, but we decided that a potato is always better when fully loaded. Crispy bacon, Cheddar cheese and chives take these dinner rolls to the next leve
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Buttermilk Biscuits
Keep this classic recipe for fluffy biscuits: You'll use it over and over.
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Turkey Bread
Turn a simple sweet dough into an incredible and edible Thanksgiving centerpiece.
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Anne Burrell's Cranberry Orange Quick Bread
Cranberry and orange is a classic flavor combination that Anne transforms into a fantastic Thanksgiving quick bread.
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Sweet Potato Pie-Stuffed Cornbread
Kardea combines two Thanksgiving favorites into one delicious bite with this decadent side. She swirls her leftover pie filling into the cornbread batter for a beautiful and delicious effect. Best of all, nothing goes to waste.
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Sweet Potato Biscuits
Trisha’s quick and easy biscuits have tons of fall flavor, thanks to mashed sweet potatoes and a little bit of apple pie spice.
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Thanksgiving Stuffing Focaccia
For people who love carbs but don't love soggy stuffing, may we introduce a new favorite combination: Thanksgiving stuffing focaccia. The bread is slightly custardy on the inside from the moisture from the vegetables while still maintaining a biscuity crust like a Chicago deep-dish pizza. Topped with crisp sausage and packed with fresh sage and parsley, it's poised to become a new holiday staple.
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Buttermilk Rolls
Buttermilk isn’t just for biscuits. It adds makes yeast-risen rolls tender and delicious too!
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Multigrain Cornbread
Give classic cornbread a hearty twist by adding whole grain flour. The addition of pumpkin seeds makes this skillet bread perfect for Thanksgiving.
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Butter Swim Biscuits
Making biscuits usually involves cutting chilled butter into flour and racing against time before the dough warms up. This recipe throws all the rules out the window for the easiest biscuits you’ll ever make! A simple buttermilk dough gets mixed together and spread directly into a baking pan — no rolling pin, refrigeration or biscuit cutter needed. The trick is pouring in a stick of melted butter that submerges the dough (hence the name!) and seeps in as the biscuits bake for tender, flaky perfection.
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Bobby Flay's Parker House Rolls
Bobby takes on this All-American, pillowy, yeasty flavorful dinner roll — the ultimate Thanksgiving breadbasket addition.
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Rosemary-Garlic Potato Bread
Duff encourages you to change up the herbs in this rustic bread — or try adding olives or nuts. That makes this a great bread for incorporating everyone’s favorite Thanksgiving flavors.
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Harvest Focaccia
This Thanksgiving-ready focaccia is topped with red grapes, raisins and walnuts. Make it the week before and freeze. When you're ready to serve just reheat it in the oven.
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Alton Brown's Creamed Corn Cornbread
For a special Thanksgiving treat, pass around Alton's cornbread fresh and warm, straight out of the oven. Or let the cornbread sit a day or two and use it to make the best cornbread stuffing ever.
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Alex Guarnaschelli's Parker House Rolls
These classic rolls are easy to make at home with Alex's step-by-step instructions. You can even make the dough ahead and freeze until the big day.
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Ree Drummond's Biscuits
The holidays are the perfect time to splurge on these homemade buttermilk biscuits. Ree bakes hers in a cast-iron skillet and brushes the tops with melted butter for a golden-brown effect.
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Cranberry Brie Sheet Pan Biscuits
These shortcut biscuits skip the rolling and cutting of typical biscuits, but deliver the same flaky, tender, golden results we all love. This version is jazzed up with a trio of herbs, savory Brie cheese and sweet cranberries for a festive addition to a holiday brunch or dinner. You can make the dough and spread it on the sheet pan the night before, so you've only got to pop them in the oven on the day of your event.
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Anadama Bread
This is a traditional New England bread that's made with molasses and cornmeal. The texture is soft and the flavor is slightly sweet.
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Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread
Spicy jalapenos and sharp cheddar give Ina Garten's cornbread loads of flavor.
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Buttered Rosemary Rolls
Ree's rosemary rolls require only four ingredients, so they're great in a pinch. Just place unbaked, un-risen dinner rolls in a buttered skillet and allow them to rise in a warm place before brushing the tops with melted butter and sprinkling on some rosemary and coarse sea salt.
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Molasses Biscuits
These whole-wheat biscuits come with a hint of thyme and a whole lot of whole-wheat goodness.
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Cast-Iron Skillet Cornbread
For a crisp, golden crust, Damaris Phillips heats her greased cast-iron skillet in the oven before pouring in the prepared cornbread batter. Be careful when adding the batter to the hot skillet — the coconut oil will spatter!
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Pumpkin-Parmesan Biscuits
Mix Parmesan cheese, pumpkin puree and heavy cream into your batter to get the full fall flavor of these moist biscuits.
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Olive and Rosemary Focaccia
Fresh rosemary always evokes feelings of warmth, comfort food and family. Valerie adds it to her salty olive focaccia, making it a nice addition to any Thanksgiving spread.
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Bacon and Onion Biscuits
Ree transforms basic biscuit dough by stirring crisp bacon pieces and caramelized onions into the batter. The result is an exceptionally savory biscuit, perfect for mopping up Thanksgiving gravy.
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Garlic and Sun-Dried Tomato Corn Muffins
Giada De Laurentiis gives store-bought corn muffin mix an Italian-inspired makeover with the addition of minced garlic and sun-dried tomatoes.
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Yeast Rolls
These basic rolls make an excellent addition to the Thanksgiving breadbasket. Fresh out of the oven, they're soft, warm and tender — perfect for mopping up gravy and cranberry sauce.
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Kentucky Buttermilk Biscuits
A good biscuit starts with a good dough, and Jeff Mauro makes his with just four ingredients: self-rising flour, butter, vegetable oil and buttermilk. After using a cookie cutter to cut out the individual biscuits, you can use the leftover dough to make shortcakes with fruit topping for dessert.
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