Cranberry sauce has always been one of my favorite dishes at Thanksgiving. The tangy acidity of ruby red cranberry sauce compliments roasted turkey and herb dressing like nothing else. That's probably why cranberry sauce has been a mainstay on Thanksgiving tables forever!

Here are our top 10 gluten-free cranberry sauce recipes from About.com Food Guides. You'll find traditional cranberry sauce recipes as well as unusual, gourmet recipes, like Cabernet Cranberry Sauce and Cranberry Avocado Salsa. They are all gluten-free and delicious!

• Top 10 Gluten-Free Cranberry Sauce Recipes

• Gluten-Free Sweet Potato Recipes

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Dean Lavornia, a talented Pastry Chef and Associate Professor at the International Baking and Pastry Institute at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, RI, developed this fabulous and versatile gluten-free recipe for Honey Pecan Tart with Gingerbread Crust, including an original gluten-free flour blend, used to make the gingerbread crust.

Chef Lavornia suggests using this recipe to make, not only gluten-free Honey Pecan Tart with Gingerbread Crust- which he calls his "favorite Thanksgiving dessert"- but also to make gluten-free graham crackers, gingerbread cookies and gluten-free gingerbread houses for the coming holidays.

The caramel-based Honey Pecan Tart Filling recipe is also extremely versatile. Use it to fill gluten-free tart or pie shells, in gluten-free sticky bun recipes and even as a decadent ice cream topping. Wow!

Gluten-Free Recipes by Dean Lavornia

• Gluten-Free Flour Blend

• Honey Pecan Pie Filling

• Gluten-Free Gingerbread Crust / Cookie Dough

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What's so great about gluten-free vanilla wafers?

Well, these little plain Jane classic cookies are so versatile and buttery good.

Enjoy this little golden cookie with ice cream, slather your favorite frosting on one side and top with another cookie for a so-much-better-than-store-bought sandwich cookie, decorate GF vanilla wafers for any special event and pack this sturdy, easy to make cookie in lunchboxes and travel bags.

Or do what I did today, just enjoy gluten-free vanilla wafers in all their golden simplicity, plain.

Gluten-Free Vanilla Wafer Recipe

More Gluten-Free Cookie Recipes

Gluten-Free Cooking - What's Hot This Week

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Don't toss out the pumpkin seeds when you carve your pumpkins this week! Pumpkin seeds are nutritious little gems- a good source of healthy omega-3 fatty acids, protein, minerals and fiber. And they taste so good. Kids eat them like candy. Really? Really!

Diana Rattray, About.com Guide to Southern Food and Fiona Haynes, About.com Guide to Low Fat Cooking have several terrific recipes for roasted pumpkin seeds including:

• Sugar and Spice Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

• Plain Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

• Cinnamon Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

• Cajun Spiced Roasted Pumpkin Seeds (Be sure the seasonings you use are gluten-free!)

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Caramel apples have delighted Halloween ghosts and goblins for decades. Besides being so much fun to eat, caramel apples are so fun to make!

Of course you can buy caramel apples at most bakeries this time of year and groceries often sell them- but how fresh are they? When you make your own homemade caramel apples you can use your favorite apple varieties and even use organic apples.

This year invite your gluten-free ghosts and goblins to make their own sticky, gooey, homemade caramel apples. This is what memories are made of! Our video will show you just how easy it is.

• How to Make Caramel Apples - Watch the Video

• Miniature Caramel Apple Bites

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Make-ahead party recipes are the best way I know of to reduce the workload of throwing a bash. Homemade caramel corn is a classic Halloween treat and it tastes so much better than commercial caramel corn. And- it can be made way ahead of time!

This buttery crisp caramel corn recipe can be popped, baked and frozen ahead of time- meaning you'll have one less thing to do during the busy week of Halloween- when you're swamped putting the final touches on costumes and shopping for party menus. I love make-ahead recipes!

Recipe for Homemade (make ahead!) Caramel Corn

Make-Ahead Gluten-Free Cocoa Crispie Ice Cream Sandwich Treats

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Need more Halloween recipe ideas for both gluten-free kids and adult parties? Nancy Lapid, our About.com Guide to Celiac Disease has compiled a great list of ghoulish gluten-free Halloween party recipes and tips.

Spaghetti and Eyeballs, Moldy Mashed Potatoes, Brains on the Half Skull, Vampire Truffles (pictured) and Witches Warts are just a few of the ghoulish gluten-free recipes you'll find. Halloween is so much FUN!

Nancy's Gluten-Free Halloween Party Recipes

Vampire Truffle Recipe by Elizabeth LaBau, About.com Guide to Candy

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Gluten-free football fanatics, team up and sack gluten! Try these gluten-free party recipes for "free safety" favorites and you won't have to worry about "out-of-bounds" snacks or appetizers while you're doing what you like to do best- celebrating football season.

• Gluten-Free Half-Time Recipes and Resources

• Spicy Nacho Cheese Dip

• Black Bean and Cheese Nacho Plate

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Hot chocolate is a cool weather indulgence I usually start thinking about towards Thanksgiving- but not this year. We're experiencing the coldest October on record here in Minnesota. It snowed last week- twice!

This warming recipe for rich and creamy gluten and dairy free hot chocolate calls for honey or organic agave nectar in place of refined sugars. The result is mellow, rich comfort cocoa. About the marshmallows- add liberally!

GFCF Creamy Hot Chocolate

25 Cool Weather Drink Recipes

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My cookie jar hasn't had much action lately. Not until I filled it with these soft, cinnamon-spiced gluten-free pumpkin cookies. But I'll warn you, these scrumptulous chewy gluten-free pumpkin cookies with cinnamon glaze are addictive.

Anyone who has read my blog for a while knows how much I like to add healthy ingredients, like pumpkin puree to gluten-free recipes. These cookies have been a huge hit around my house. No one is talking about how healthy they are though- just how good they taste, and when can I make another batch, a double batch this time.

• Gluten-Free Pumpkin Cookies with Cinnamon Glaze

• More Gluten-Free Pumpkin Recipes

• Gluten-Free Apple Recipes

• Gluten-Free Cooking - What's Hot This Week?

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