This post is sponsored by ALDI

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Warm, gooey cinnamon brown sugar apples piled on and between fluffy, just out of the oven pumpkin (yes pumpkin! 😍) biscuits. Giant creamy twists of whipped maple cream cheese capping this lush holiday tower. Do we have your attention? Good, because you’re not going to want to miss this.

This was described around the POY kitchen as a “maximalist approach to seasonal baking” – lol, and that is *very* accurate. Nothing about this is minimal. It’s a real wow-the-table, unite pumpkin pie and apple pie lovers alike, absolutely next-level approach to a holiday dessert or, importantly, brunch – and we are here for it.

Why You Need To Make This For The Holidays

Yes, yes we understand. Maybe you always make pumpkin pie or maybe Aunt Fran is just NOT HAVING IT unless there is apple crisp on the table and sure, those can all still sail through this holiday season at some point but, can we just please oh please convince you to brag a little at the Thanksgiving table this year?

These autumnal sweetstacks are every good dessert thing wrapped into one. The brown sugar cinnamon apples are just the right amount of soft and sticky and saucy and sweet. All the best parts of pie. The pumpkin biscuits are light and subtle and cozy and delicious. Why waste your chomps on pie crust when you could have these.

That thick smooth airy maple whipped cream? We’d eat bowls on bowls on bowls of just this for dessert but like we said, maximal. You can’t stop at just whipped cream when you can set down a literal tower of sweet holiday goodness at each place setting. SO beautiful and unbelievably delicious.

Get ready, because Aunt Fran is seriously gonna lose her beans when she lays her eyes on these. Promise.

What You Need For These Shortcakes

As with most any dream come true, it starts with ALDI. Seriously friends, if you’re not already doing your holiday meal shopping at ALDI, get on it! You can get everything you need to make a traditional Thanksgiving meal – like a whole Butterball turkey, sides, pumpkin pie, all of the essentials – all from ALDI and all for less than $30.* Count us in! And while we’re there, we’re picking up everything we’ll need for these dessert stacks happen. Along with some pantry staples, here’s the all-star lineup to make this gem:

• Apples (we used honeycrisp because we’re Minnesotan like that)
• Baker’s Corner Canned Pumpkin
• Specially Selected Pure Maple Syrup
• Cream cheese
• Simply Nature Organic Ground Cinnamon

Grab your reusable ALDI bag and gather your cream, your flour, your sugar, your butter. Your pumpkin pie spice and your dose of holiday cheer and let’s get baking.

How To Make These Delicious Shortcakes

These beauties will take a few steps to bring together but what are the holidays for if not taking a little quiet time to think about what you’re grateful for. Might we suggest doing this while bringing together some homemade biscuit dough and slowly caramelizing some apples?

1. Make the pumpkin biscuits. Bring the dough together speckled with brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice and canned pumpkin. Press it out, have at it with a cookie cutter or jar lid and then bake until golden brown.
2. Get your apples going. You’ll get your apples cooking first in some brown sugar, butter and spices and then thicken things up a bit with a cornstarch slurry so you will have warm gooey sauce drizzles at the ready.
3. Maple whipped cream meets cream cheese frosting. Has there ever been a more beautiful sentence?! You’ll whip the cream and the cream cheese first until smooth and airy and then fold them together with the maple syrup and your tears of joy.
4. Stacks on stacks. Cut one of your warm biscuits in half, pile with apples and a big ol’ dollop of the whipped cream. Other biscuit half on top, more apples, more whipped cream, more caramely drizzles, you get it. Repeat Repeat.

We hope you’ll give these a whirl for your holiday dessert, fancy weekend brunch, sneak-in-the-night when the house is finally calm. The apples and biscuits are like your coziest sweater, your warmest family hug, that maple whipped cream is the quiet satisfied smiles when you look around your table at the people you love best.

Everything about it feels special, and oof, we’re all so looking forward to something special this year.

Pumpkin Shortcakes: Frequently Asked Questions

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* Based on the items and quantities included in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual Thanksgiving Dinner Cost Survey for dinner for up to 10 with a 12lb Butterball turkey and additional miscellaneous items (e.g. coffee, butter, flour, sugar, eggs) not included in the survey. Available in-store and online. Tax and online fees not included.

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More Over-The-Top Holiday Yum

• Gooey Caramel Monkey Bread (silky caramel with brioche dough – YUM!)
• Pumpkin Bundt Cake (with a cinnamon streusel layer – are you ready??)
• Biscuits and Gravy Egg Bake (the little bites of tender biscuits are SO GOOD)

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