32 Best Fall Dessert Recipes
Fall baking season is finally here! Once the weather starts to cool off, there’s nothing better than a freshly baked dessert packed with warm spices and all the cozy fall flavors. Whether you’re looking for an easy pumpkin bread recipe or the perfect fall cookie recipe, these fall desserts will satisfy your sweet tooth all autumn long!
TOP RATED FALL DESSERT RECIPES
Brown Butter & Maple Chewy Pumpkin Cookies
These chewy pumpkin cookies are bursting with flavor! Baked with loads of brown butter, warm spices, and pure pumpkin, these are the ultimate warm and cozy cookies that are perfect for the Fall baking season.
Cream Cheese Frosted Pumpkin Bread
This incredibly moist pumpkin bread is so flavorful and topped with a thick layer of silky cream cheese frosting! It’s the perfect pumpkin bread recipe for fall, incredibly easy to make, and it is always a guaranteed crowd pleaser!
Apple Cider Cake
Inspired by a baked apple cider donut, this apple cider cake is super moist, coated in cinnamon sugar, and topped in an apple cider glaze. It’s basically a giant donut in bundt cake form that looks impressive but is really so simple to make!
Pumpkin Cheesecake
This rich pumpkin cheesecake is super creamy and baked with an entire can of pumpkin puree, warm spices, and a brown butter graham cracker crust. It’s the absolute best cheesecake recipe for fall, and I include tips so yours turns out crack-free!
Maple Pecan Sticky Buns
These maple pecan sticky buns are insanely delicious! Light and fluffy cinnamon rolls are baked with a caramelized maple pecan topping. They’re soft, sticky and loaded with savory crunchy pecans. They’re so much fun to make and even more fun to eat!
FALL COOKIE RECIPES
Brown Butter Oatmeal Cookies
These are the ultimate oatmeal cookies made with brown butter! It adds so much rich flavor and once paired with extra salt and a touch of cinnamon, these cookies taste completely gourmet. This will definitely be your new favorite oatmeal cookie recipe!
Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies
These Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies are the PERFECT fall dessert. Soft pumpkin cookie surrounds a silky cream cheese filling It’s a pumpkin cheesecake/cookie hybrid that is unlike any other pumpkin cookie!
Iced Apple Oatmeal Cookies
These apple cookies are inspired by a classic iced oatmeal cookie! Baked with tender honeycrisp apple pieces, these cookies contain warm spices, oats, and a kiss of icing on top. They’re also anything but cakey! These apple cookies are perfectly soft and chewy.
Spiced Maple Butter Cookies
These maple cookies are swirled with a spiced maple butter and topped with maple icing. They’re perfectly soft and buttery in the middle with wrinkly chewy edges! These cookies are so cozy and full of warm spices and fall flavors!
Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
These ooey gooey chocolate chip cookies are perfect for fall baking season! They’re baked with savory pecans, rich dark chocolate, and nutty brown butter. The outside is golden and crispy and the inside remains soft and melty.
Chewy Spice Cookies
These warm spice cookies are full of flavor with a thin, soft, and chewy texture. They’re so easy to make, require zero chill time, and are baked right away! It’s the perfect cozy treat to make in the chilly fall and winter months.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are rich and gooey with melty chocolate chips and a hint of pumpkin spice! Made with brown butter, these cookies are also loaded with flavor and bring all the warm and cozy vibes needed for a fall cookie recipe.
FALL CAKE RECIPES
Spice Cake With Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
This is hands down the BEST spice cake recipe. It’s incredibly moist, perfectly spiced, and coated in a silky brown butter cream cheese frosting. It’s an absolute show stopper and never fails to impress. It’s perfect for a crowd!
Maple Brown Butter Cheesecake
This brown butter cheesecake is LIFE CHANGING. It’s a maple and brown butter cheesecake with a brown butter graham cracker crust. The crust covers the bottom, sides, and is baked as a double layer in the center of the cheesecake!
Pumpkin Coffee Cake
This pumpkin coffee cake is for anyone who believes there can never be too much crumb topping. Unlike a traditional coffee cake with a thin layer of streusel, this one is made with nearly equal parts moist pumpkin cake and buttery crumb topping.
Apple Fritter Skillet Cake
This apple fritter skillet cake is just as warm and cozy as it sounds. A moist and spiced apple fritter cake is baked with tender cinnamon spiced apples, a warm butter sauce, and is all topped with a sweet glaze…just like apple fritters!
Pumpkin Pecan Pie Cheesecake
This pumpkin pecan pie cheesecake has absolutely everything you need. Baked all together, it starts with a pecan pie bottom, pumpkin cheesecake filling, and a sweet and tangy vanilla bean sour cream topping. It’s the best of two fall desserts baked into one!
Apple Pie Cupcakes
These apple pie cupcakes have a moist spice cake base with whipped vanilla buttercream, tender cinnamon apples, and a baked pie crust garnish. It’s all the cozy flavors of a warm apple pie wrapped up in a delicious cupcake!
Pumpkin Cupcakes
Moist pumpkin cupcakes baked with warm spices and topped with silky cinnamon cream cheese frosting! Made extra special, these cupcakes are topped with edible mini pumpkins. THEY’RE SO STINKING CUTE!
FALL BREADS AND ROLLS RECIPES
Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze
This is seriously the best pumpkin bread recipe EVER. Not only is it incredibly moist, but it also has a crunchy pumpkin spice streusel topping and a sticky maple glaze. It’s also SO easy to make and you don’t even need a mixer!
Apple Cider Donuts
Fall can only mean one thing – apple cider donuts! These baked donuts have the sweet tartness of apple cider with a coating of cinnamon sugar. They’re soft, moist, tender, and so fun to make. It’s the perfect recipe for apple picking season!
Sweet Potato Bread
This sweet potato bread is so incredibly moist and comforting. Made with tons of warm spices, fresh baked sweet potato, and a toasted marshmallow meringue frosting, this bread has so much flavor with the most delicious textures.
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
These Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls are SO soft and delicious. No crispy edges here, just fluffy cinnamon rolls with a smooth cream cheese icing. With pumpkin in the dough and filling, these easy cinnamon rolls are bursting with pumpkin spice flavor.
Apple Cinnamon Bread
This moist apple cinnamon bread is the best way to kick off apple picking season! It’s loaded with fresh tender apples, warm cinnamon, and is topped with a layer of buttered cinnamon apples. It’s the coziest fall dessert recipe, and it’s so easy to make!
EASY FALL DESSERT RECIPES
Pumpkin Crisp
This pumpkin crisp will give pumpkin pie a run for its money! It’s so easy to make with a creamy pumpkin filling and a toasted brown butter topping. It’s a very unassuming dessert but the flavors and textures are incredible.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
These pumpkin chocolate chip muffins are SO moist and loaded with melty chocolate chips! They bake with the most perfect rounded muffin tops and are so quick and easy to whip up. This is one of my most popular muffin recipes for good reason!
Mini Pumpkin Hand Pies
These mini pumpkin pies so adorable and much easier to make than you’d think! These mini pumpkin hand pies are baked with a cream cheese pumpkin filling and a cinnamon sugar crust. They’re so quick and are sure to impress!
Apple Crisp
This is the BEST apple crisp recipe! It’s perfectly spiced with thick slices of tender and jammy apples and extra crisp on top. This recipe is also naturally gluten free using an almond flour and oat crumble. It’s quick, easy, and so delicious!
Pumpkin Bread Pudding
This pumpkin bread pudding is outrageous in the best way. Homemade pumpkin pudding is layered with chunks of pumpkin bread. The pumpkin bread stays nice and soft without turning the mush. It’s as incredible as it sounds!
Mini Apple Hand Pies
These delicious apple hand pies take all the work out of making apple pie. The filling is just 6 simple ingredients, and the crust is store bought pie dough with a coating of cinnamon sugar – baked and ready in under an hour!
No Bake Pumpkin Cookie Pie
This no bake pumpkin pie is made uniquely delicious with layers of gingersnap cookies! Once chilled, the filling softens the cookies for alternating layers of creamy pumpkin pie filling and tender gingersnap cookies in every bite.
Burnt Sugar Pumpkin Bars
These pumpkin bars have an unexpected flavor that makes them irresistible! Burnt sugar syrup is so simple to make but packs a punch in flavor. Similar to caramel, it adds that warm sugar note without being too sweet. This the BEST pumpkin bars recipe!
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I’m the creator, baker, and photographer behind Butternut Bakery. Here I share desserts for every diet because I believe everyone should have a chance to indulge!
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