Tired of pumpkin pie every goddamn Thanksgiving? Easy Homemade Desserts That Say You Care (Thank You brand pie filling, undated, but looks like it's from the 1980s) has some suggestions.
Yeah, I know the cover makes it look like all of them would involve cherries, but there are plenty of other types of recipes too! Cherries were probably just the brand's best seller.
If you really like the pop of red, maybe go for some cranberries rather than cherries.
Well, cranberries plus apples-- and oats, brown sugar, and cinnamon! This will definitely feel like fall, even without the pumpkin.
If you insist on the pumpkin but are apprehensive about the pie part, there's a pumpkin parfait.
It doesn't get much easier than layering pumpkin pie filling straight out of the can with scoops of vanilla ice cream. (Reminder: Canned pumpkin pie filling is NOT the same thing as pure canned pumpkin! Layering plain canned pumpkin with ice cream would probably be pretty gross.)
If you're not so into a heavy dessert after a heavy meal, there's an airy Apple Angel Pie.
(I'll bet you could sub in the pumpkin pie filling for the apple if you wanted. Or maybe you'd end up with a runny mess. I'm no psychic... or ambitious cook.)
And finally, if you want something resembling an apple-and-cheese pie without the bother of rolling out a crust, you could try Apple Cheese Squares.
I don't see too many recipes calling for a pat-in-pan cake-mix-based crust, covered with a layer of cheesy apples. (And I sincerely doubt that using the "lite" apple pie filling is going to save a substantial amount of calories in a dessert filled with cake mix, butter, coconut, and cheese, but I guess Thank You had to advertise that they made "lite" fillings somewhere, and this recipe was as good a place as any.)
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope yours is as weird as an Apple Cheese Square (if you're like me and enjoy weird) or as sweet as a Pumpkin Parfait (if you're the more conventional type).
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