The 23 Best Thanksgiving Dinner Rolls, Biscuits, Loaves, and Breads (2024)

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Wow your guests with Parker House rolls, angel biscuits, cornbread, or focaccia this Thanksgiving. We have many delicious recipes to help fill your holiday breadbasket!

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Published November 08, 2022

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The 23 Best Thanksgiving Dinner Rolls, Biscuits, Loaves, and Breads (3)

Let’s talk about the all-important Thanksgiving bread basket—a vegetarian’s failsafe, a child’s default, and everyone else’s guilty pleasure. Warm carbs in a bread basket are the highlight of the Thanksgiving table. We have so many delicious, inventive, and beautiful options, from dinner rolls, biscuits, and cornbread to loaves, focaccia, and buns, including a few gluten-free options. Any of these could be the talk of your Thanksgiving table. Going to a Friendsgiving potluck? Bring a pan of warm bread and you’ll be the hit of the potluck!

Here are our favorite Thanksgiving recipes to help fill your bread basket.

Quick Dinner Rolls
Got an hour? Then you can have these fluffy yeasted rolls that taste like they took hours to make.
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Make-Ahead Dinner Rolls
Everybody loves buttery, rich potato rolls, especially if you can whip them up in a pinch. These freezer-friendly rolls are perfect for exactly that.
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Parker House Dinner Rolls
A perfect example of how a great roll can steal the show, these iconic crescent-shaped rolls are a Bostonian hotel’s claim to fame. And they can be yours, too, faster and more easily than you think.
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Lion House Rolls
Another restaurant's signature dinner roll—this one from Utah—has dramatic spirals and are made for cleaning up the last drops of gravy from your plate.
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Copycat Olive Garden Breadsticks
Forget going out for all-you-can-eat breadsticks. You can bake—and freeze!—restaurant-quality breadsticks right at home.
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Sourdough Dinner Rolls
Have some sourdough starter? Time to put it to good use with these pull-apart rolls with a chewy crust.
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Homemade Crescent Rolls
Skip the can and go straight for the pop—of flavor! Lightly sweetened, flaky, and an excellent introduction to the art of laminated pastry, you will never go back to the pre-made stuff.
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Challah Rolls
A beloved Jewish bread made with eggs and honey, its mild flavors and soft texture are so craveable. Top them with seeds or do without—the precious knots look dramatic and beautiful either way.
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Milk Bread Rolls
The technique of making the dough might be Asian, but the appeal of these rolls are universal—light, airy, moist, and mildly sweet beneath the glossy golden top.
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Garlic Parmesan Pull-Apart Rolls
Like the milk bread rolls, here is another recipe that uses tangzhong to create pillowy, elastic rolls. This one is drenched with a garlic and herb butter.
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Yankee Cornbread
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Best Bread for Vegans & Plant-Based Diets
Don’t relegate cornbread to stuffing only—it's delicious as a side for turkey. This is a sweeter take on classic cornbread.
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Green Chile Cornbread
Some like it sweet, some like it hot—cornbread, of course! Get a little bit of both with this version, which will wow your guests even more if you can snag some Hatch chile peppers.
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Easy Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de Queijo)
Gluten-free? No problem. No stand mixer? The answer’s still the same. These delicious, puffy bites are often served at Brazilian steakhouses, and go just as well with Thanksgiving turkey.
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Popovers
These cloud-like popovers will first draw gasps of appreciation then sighs of delight. Make it savory or sweet with add-ins or let your guests choose their smears—butter is classic, but cranberry chutney or any preserve would be delicious.
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Angel Biscuits
Get a rise—or three—out of your dinner guests with these triple-leavened biscuits. They call for baking soda, baking powder, and yeast, yielding light, fluffy, and of course, heavenly biscuits.
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Irish Brown Bread
A comfort food in dining rooms across Ireland, this whole-grain rustic bread is coziness in a slice. Serve it with a block of grass-fed Irish-style butter for generous and satisfying slathering.
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Rosemary Garlic Beer Bread
For a hearty bread meant for heavy, deep-flavored autumnal meals, look no further than dense, crumbly, and malty beer bread.
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Soda Bread Biscuits
Another great option for those who like their breads on the denser side, this recipe is perfect for anyone who—quite reasonably—feels that we shouldn’t have to wait for spring for a reason to eat soda bread.
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Gluten-free Dinner Rolls
Free of yeast, nuts, and gluten, plus very adaptable—skip the garlic and herbs if you'd like—these rolls keep eating inclusivity in mind.
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Gluten-free Biscuits
Surprise gluten-free guests who believe flaky biscuits out of their reach with a skillet of these gluten-free biscuits. The key is using the flour that the recipe recommends.
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St. Lucia Saffron Buns
Traditionally served on St. Lucia Day—it falls in December—in Sweden, these show-stopper buns feel just as right for Thanksgiving. Saffron lends them their vibrant yellow hue, and their signature S-shape is easier to form than you’d think!
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Focaccia with Caramelized Onions, Cranberries, and Brie
Why choose between serving a bread or an appetizer when you can do both? Plush focaccia gets adorned with toppings like caramelized onions, cranberries, and Brie. No one will miss the butter.
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Pumpkin Sourdough Bread
Not all pumpkin breads need to be cake-y and super sweet. This pumpkin-shaped and flavored loaf has the texture and tang of a good sourdough boule. This is more than a side—it’s a showpiece.
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