This collection of fall desserts features all the best warm and cozy treats with autumn spices and flavors!
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The Coziest Desserts!
Turn on the oven and bring out the warm pies, delicious crips, sweet cookies and cakes.
Thinking of cozy fall desserts instantly warms me up and I want to curl up on the couch with a treat and a book, or maybe a Hallmark movie.
Whether you are planning a simple evening home or hosting a dinner party, I’ve collected some of my favorite Fall desserts. But before I get into the recipes, here are some general tips!
Tips for Fall Desserts
Since pumpkins and apples are in season, you’ll see many fall desserts that feature these two fruits.
- Pumpkin: Most recipes that use pumpkin call for canned pumpkin puree. Be sure you don’t accidentally buy canned pie filling or seasoned pumpkin. If you are feeling really adventurous you can even make your own puree from pumpkins from your garden. This Pumpkin Pie Post explains how.
- Apples: As far as apples go, choose apples that hold their structure when baked. This way you don’t end up with mushy applesauce instead of warm tender apple slices. Here are a few that work well: Honeycrisps, Pink Lady, Braeburn, Jonagold, and Granny Smith.
Besides pumpkins and apples, I feel like oats give a warm autumn feeling and of course there are plenty of desserts featuring chocolate which I love to eat year round!
As you click on the recipes, you’ll find baking tricks and storage tips specific for each recipe so that you’ll end up with the perfect dessert each time.
Fall Desserts
go-to Fall Desserts
There are so many we love, but we wanted to share our go-to’s…
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Apple Pie Caramel Apple Recipe
Apple Pie Caramel Apples {Disney Copycat Recipe} ~ tart Granny Smith apples are dipped in chewy caramel, coated in white chocolate, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, and then finished off with pie crust crumbs for your favorite Disney treat easily made at home for a fraction of the price!
Total Time: 18 minutes
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Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe
Buttery, sweet, and moist - this sticky toffee pudding is a MUST have treat! It takes several steps but is one of those desserts that is well worth the work and great for holidays and get togethers.
Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
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Bread, Dessert
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Soft and Gooey Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls topped with a delicious pumpkin spice glaze. Between the pumpkin flavored bread dough, the pumpkin spice filling, and the pumpkin spice glaze on top, this dessert has all the goods!
Total Time: 2 hours 27 minutes
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Carmelitas Recipe
These ooey gooey Oatmeal Carmelitas are loaded with caramel, chocolate chips, and oatmeal dough. Better yet, they can be prepared in 20 minutes or less!
Total Time: 45 minutes
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Pumpkin Delight Recipe
With a buttery pecan crust, a whipped cream cheese layer, light and fluffy pumpkin spice pudding, and more whipped cream topped off with chopped pecans, this pumpkin delight dessert is absolutely irresistible!
Total Time: 3 hours 35 minutes
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Rice Pudding Recipe
Creamy and sweet rice pudding is an easy dessert that can be served hot or cold. Topped with a dash of cinnamon, it's the ultimate comfort food that brings back nostalgic memories!
Total Time: 55 minutes
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Pumpkin Custard Recipe
This pumpkin custard dessert is a cinch to prepare and will satisfy that pumpkin craving! It's rich and creamy and full of pumpkin spice with a delicious nutty, crunch topping.
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Apple Cobbler Recipe
This apple cobbler recipe is the autumn season wrapped up into one heavenly dessert. Fresh tender apples, cinnamon spices, and a sweet crunch topping all in one bite making it the best apple cobbler you'll ever try!
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
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Breakfast, Dessert
Homemade Donut Recipe
Not sure what is so addicting about these donuts (perhaps the fact that they're fried?!), but I promise you they are. Everyone loves these homemade donuts.
Total Time: 15 minutes
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Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe
Oreo crust, two layers of cheesecake (one plain and one with pumpkin puree), whipped cream, and chocolate ganache! Everything about this chocolate pumpkin cheesecake is heavenly.
Total Time: 7 hours 25 minutes
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Fall Cookies
favorite Fall Cookie recipes
Who can deny a fresh baked cookie from the oven? Especially on a fall day? Not I!! Here are some great ideas of fall cookies to make this season.
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Shortbread Cookie Recipe
What's not to love about these delicious and buttery shortbread cookies that just melt in your mouth? It only takes a small handful of common ingredients!
Total Time: 25 minutes
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Butterscotch Cornflake Cookies
The kids LOVE making these No Bake Butterscotch Cookies - they're simple, quick and yummy! Cornflakes mixed with melted peanut butter, chocolate chips, and butterscotch chips.
Total Time: 13 minutes
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Iced Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
Perfectly textured with a combination of whole and blended oats, deliciously flavored with spices, and topped with a sweet icing glaze—they're amazing!
Total Time: 20 minutes
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Gooey Butter Cookies Recipe
Whether you call them butter cookies or cake mix cookies, you know they are ultra yummy! These cookies are made with a yellow cake mix, butter, cream cheese, and a few additional ingredients. They are so gooey, chewy, and moist - it's impossible to resit them!
Total Time: 45 minutes
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
These Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies are SO soft and fluffy, they're almost like a cake. Filled with pumpkin flavor, and chocolate chips, these cookies have just the right amount of seasonal spices.
Total Time: 17 minutes
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Caramel Cookies Recipe
Soft and chewy caramel cookies sprinkled with a little bit of sea salt. The perfect combination of sweet and salty in one delicious cookie!
Total Time: 22 minutes
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Bites Recipe
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bites - Simply use your favorite homemade cookie dough recipe (or store bought!), and bake in a mini muffin tin. Then pour melted milk chocolate on top to make these ultra yummy cookie bites!!
Total Time: 20 minutes
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Turtle Thumbprint Cookie Recipe
With chopped pecans on the outside, a caramel filling and chocolate all around, these Turtle Thumbprint Cookies are hard NOT to love!
Total Time: 1 hour 26 minutes
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Fall Cakes
Best Fall Cakes + CUPCAKES
The kids love to help make some yummy cakes and cupcakes. Here are the ones that we love to make most this time of year.
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Caramel Apple Dump Cake Recipe
This Caramel Apple Dump Cake is ridiculously easy to make, but so delicious that it will become your new favorite fall dessert! With ingredients like vanilla cake mix, evaporated milk, caramel bits, and apple pie filling, this warm and gooey treat is an absolute dream!
Total Time: 50 minutes
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Chocolate Cupcakes
These chocolate cupcakes are moist, fudgy and filled with chocolate. It's an easy cupcake recipe that turns out perfect everytime and 1000x better than any box mix!
Total Time: 1 hour
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Pumpkin Crunch Cake Recipe
Pumpkin crunch cake is a must-make during the fall season. It entails all of the smooth pumpkin flavors, topped with crunchy pecans and a dollop of whipped cream.
Total Time: 1 hour 12 minutes
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German Chocolate Cake Recipe
Homemade German Chocolate Cake is always a favorite. Two layers of tender chocolate cake topped with a decadent coconut pecan frosting. What's not to love?
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Neiman Marcus Cake Recipe
Neiman Marcus Cake - if you've ever had this before, you know how INCREDIBLE the pecan and coconut crust is, with a gooey cream cheese batter layer on top! AMAZING!!
Total Time: 42 minutes
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Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake Recipe
This two layer Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake is moist, DELICIOUS, and perfect for any fall festivity! The dessert consists of a buttery cake-like bottom layer, plus a creamy layer of pumpkin puree, cream cheese, cinnamon, nutmeg, and powdered sugar.
Total Time: 50 minutes
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Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe
Our favorite chocolate sheet cake recipe. It's simple, moist, delicious and serves a lot making it our go-to party dessert - perfect with ice cream.
Total Time: 25 minutes
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Apple Cake Recipe
This Easy Apple Cake is extra moist and filled with cinnamon and apples. Top it off with ice cream and caramel sauce for the perfect fall treat!
Total Time: 45 minutes
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Peanut Butter Cupcake Recipe
These Peanut Butter Cupcakes are soft, tender, and loaded with peanut butter flavor. Creamy peanut butter frosting makes them irresistible. A perfect treat for peanut butter lovers!
Total Time: 30 minutes
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Pumpkin Roll Recipe
Libby's Pumpkin Roll is a classic fall favorite! Nothing beats a pumpkin cake full of cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger all rolled up with a delicious cream cheese filling.
Total Time: 35 minutes
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Pumpkin Dump Cake Recipe
Try this fall dump cake variation - Pumpkin Dump Cake! This delicious pumpkin dump cake recipe is complete with all the fall flavors, pumpkin, pecan, and cinnamon spice.
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
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Pumpkin Magic Cake Recipe
3 layer cake made up of creamy pumpkin puree layer, a layer of yellow cake, and lastly a white chocolate pumpkin spice frosting topped with white chocolate shavings!!
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Fall Pies
Fall Pie recipes
Pie SCREAMS fall time!! Don’t you agree?! Here are some of the pies we highly recommend making this time of year.
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Oatmeal Pie Recipe
Easy Oatmeal Pie is an old-fashioned favorite! With a delicious brown sugar flavor, chewy layer of oatmeal, and flaky pastry—it's the perfect pie recipe.
Total Time: 5 hours
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S'Mores Pie Recipe
Everything you love about your favorite campfire treat, but in a delicious homemade pie! With a creamy chocolate filling, s graham cracker crust and gooey marshmallows on top - this s'mores pie is impossible to resist.
Total Time: 5 hours
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Crustless Pumpkin Pie Recipe
This crustless pumpkin pie is smooth, creamy and packed with pumpkin flavor. It's easy to make, perfect for Thanksgiving - and so delicious that you won't miss the crust!
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Mini Pecan Pie Recipe
Everyone's favorite pecan pie in mini form! Perfect for parties and snacking with your hands! Sweet, bite sized, crunchy, and delicious - these mini pies are great for holidays.
Total Time: 23 minutes
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Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
This Chocolate Cream Pie has two types of chocolate in a creamy pudding, topped off with sweetened whipped cream and chocolate curls. It is a perfect pie for chocolate lovers!
Total Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
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Best Apple Pie Recipe
There's nothing like a slice of warm apple pie served with vanilla ice cream! This recipe for Homemade Apple Pie has proven to be the BEST apple pie recipe around. With a flaky, buttery crust made from scratch, and a gooey, sweet apple filling, this pie will not disappoint!
Total Time: 3 hours 45 minutes
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Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
This sweet potato pie has a silky smooth texture, the perfect hint of spice, and a crisp crust. Top it with a little whipped cream, and it's totally irresistible!
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Buttermilk Pie Recipe
Buttermilk Pie - flaky pastry crust and creamy, custard like filling made with real buttermilk. This scrumptious pie comes together in about five minutes!
Total Time: 1 hour
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Mini Pumpkin Pies
Mini Pumpkin Pies - the perfect, bite-sized fall treats perfect for any party or occasion!
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Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Not only is this pumpkin pie incredibly easy - it's the most moist, flavorful, all around perfect pumpkin pie! Made from canned pumpkin, seasonal spices, and evaporated milk, this pie is a must have dessert during the holidays.
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
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Mud Pie Recipe
This Mud Pie only takes a few minutes to make, but it is simply divine. With a cookie crumb crust, creamy ice cream, hot fudge, and whipped cream, it is a perfect summer dessert!
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Pecan Pie Bars Recipe
With a buttery shortbread crust and caramelized pecan filling, it's impossible not to love these sweet and nutty Pecan Pie Bars. Anyone who likes pecan pie (and even those who don't!) LOVE these Pecan Bars.
Total Time: 55 minutes
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Pecan Pie Recipe
The recipe for THE BEST Pecan Pie! It only takes a handful of ingredients and 10 minutes of prep work to create this ooey gooey, buttery delicacy! Not only is this pie a MUST at Thanksgiving dinner - it's a perfect pie year round!
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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