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These Fall Dessert Recipes highlight the season’s sweet, spiced flavors and fruits! Maple, ginger, cinnamon, apple, pear, fig, etc.
But you won’t find your typical apple pie or pumpkin pie in the collection (although I love them both). Instead, discover twists and variations of the classics, like cinnamon rolls baked with apple pie filling, and mini pumpkin pie sugar cookies. 🍏🎃
Or, you may choose to try recipes with different flavors like chewy ginger cookies, chocolate maple pecan shortbread bars, cranberry bliss bars, or chai spiced bundt cake. Truly the best of all worlds!
Craving something on the healthier/lighter side? You’ve got to try the gourmet baked apples or the best healthy coffee cake. This list has it all!
The fall dessert recipes are beautiful and delicious enough for Christmas brunch or to impress your dinner party guests, but easy enough to make on any given fall or winter day when you’re craving something sweet.
I hope you discover some new ideas you love! Enjoy. 😊🍰🍎🍐
More Seasonal Fall Favorites:
– 38+ Fall Potluck Dishes [Easy to Make Sides, Dips, and Casseroles]
– 51+ Fall Salad Ideas [with Seasonal Vegetables & Fruits]
– 54+ Cozy Fall Soup Ideas with Seasonal Vegetables
– 46+ Fall Dishes for Dinner [Recipes with Seasonal Produce]
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Fall Dessert Recipes
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Carrot Cake Loaf – Heavenly Spiced
A moist, spiced carrot cake loaf with added protein and fiber from cottage cheese, whole grains, flaxseeds, and nuts! The cream cheese and cottage cheese frosting is perfectly sweet, creamy, tangy, and delicious.
Glazed Applesauce Fritters Recipe [Quick + Easy] – Heavenly Spiced
Homemade glazed applesauce fritters are bursting with fresh apple pieces! Perfectly soft, fluffy, and packed with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. The sweet maple glaze adds the perfect finishing touch. Whether you’re hosting a brunch, baking for the holidays, like Thanksgiving or Christmas, or craving a cozy fall dessert, these fritters are quick, easy, and irresistible!
Pumpkin Cake Squares with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting – Heavenly Spiced
Pumpkin Cake Squares with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting is the easiest, tastiest baking recipe you’ll make this Fall! The frosting resembles the flavor of a creamsicle and is perfectly smothered on the cakey pumpkin pie spiced pumpkin cake squares.
Pecan Shortbread Bars [Chocolate and Maple Syrup] – Heavenly Spiced
These Chocolate Maple Pecan Shortbread Bars are essentially pecan pie in bar form! So delicious, and naturally sweetened with maple syrup (no corn syrup needed).
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars – On My Kids Plate
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars combine creamy cheesecake topped with delicious baked apples, sweet cinnamon sugar, a buttery crumble, and sweet caramel drizzled on top!
Cranberry Tartlets – xoxoBella
Put homemade Cranberry Tartlets on your festive menu for the perfect slightly tart, sweet balance to end your meal with.
Mini Pumpkin Pie Sugar Cookies – Eat Fresh Glow
If you’re a fan of pumpkin pie and soft sugar cookies, then you’ll love these Mini Pumpkin Pie Sugar Cookies! They combine the best of both worlds – creamy spiced pumpkin pie filling on a perfectly baked sugar cookie.
Gourmet Baked Apples – Chef Ani
These gourmet baked apples offer a warm and cozy treat, featuring tender apple halves filled with a mixture of oats, coconut oil, and maple syrup. Enhanced with cinnamon and cardamom, this vegan dessert balances sweetness and spice.
Chewy Triple Ginger Cookies – Our Love Language is Food
This Triple Ginger Cookies recipe uses three types of ginger to create soft, chewy, and spicy ginger cookies. These are a must-try for those who love spice cookies!
Pumpkin Tiramisu – Little Nonni
Pumpkin Tiramisu is a festive twist on a classic Italian dessert. Layered with rich pumpkin cream and espresso-dipped ladyfingers, this easy dessert is perfect for celebrating the season and impressing guests at your next holiday gathering!
Fuyu Persimmon Galette • The Heirloom Pantry
Fuyu Persimmon Galette is a delicious, impressive dessert that’s half the work of making a pie. It’s made with flaky homemade crust and topped with candied pecans. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream for extra indulgence!
Maple Sugar Cookies – Best Christmas Desserts
These Maple Sugar Cookies are a must-make treat during the holidays, and all year long. They’re soft cookies with a lightly sweet flavor, which holds their shape so nicely, making them perfect for decorating for any occasion!
Roasted Caramel Apple Crisp – Living Sweet Moments
Roasted Caramel Apple Crisp – these roasted apples have a caramel filling and a buttery crumb topping. The perfect fall dessert that is ready in no time.
Pumpkin Spice Icebox Cake – No Heat Needed
If you’re looking for a dessert that’s as effortless as it is delicious, you’re in for a treat with this Pumpkin Spice Icebox Cake!
Chai Spice Bundt Cake – Chenee Today
This Vanilla Chai Cake is the best chai spice bundt cake recipe! It’s a moist, old-fashioned spice bundt cake recipe with sour cream, topped with the best brown butter cream cheese icing!
Pumpkin Crème Brûlée – Chef Sous Chef
This Pumpkin Crème Brûlée is smooth, rich, and steeped in pumpkin spice. It’s a classic dessert with a delicious twist, perfect for fall dinner parties, date nights, or Thanksgiving dinner.
Apple Bars with Pumpkin Pie Spice Icing – A Cedar Spoon
These sweet and soft Apple Bars with Pumpkin Pie Spice Icing are the perfect fall treat, combining two fall flavor favorites!
Cranberry Bliss Bars – A Cedar Spoon
Cranberry Bliss Bars are a copycat version of the bars you find at Starbucks. These bars are festive, sweet, and the perfect holiday treat. The bars mix white chocolate with dried cranberries and are topped with a cream cheese frosting.
Pumpkin Delight – Cheerful Cook
This Pumpkin Delight is the perfect Fall dessert. A graham cracker crust is topped with a cheesecake layer, a pumpkin pie layer, and a creamy, whipped topping and pecans.
Homemade Oatmeal Fig Bars with Fresh Figs – The Food Geek
If you love figs, you’ll enjoy these Homemade Oatmeal Fig Bars. Seasonal figs are simmered down with maple syrup until they form a paste. The crust (doubled as the oat topping) is easy to make, using melted butter instead of cutting cold butter into the flour!
Pumpkin Bread Pudding – Chew Out Loud
This Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Caramel Sauce is the perfect fall breakfast, brunch, or dessert for holidays and potlucks. You can make it completely the night before, too.
Maple Cookies – The Simple, Sweet Life
These pecan-bespeckled maple cookies have a chewy center, and a crispy exterior and are drizzled with an irresistible maple glaze.
Ginger Pumpkin Custard Ice Cream – Beyond Mere Sustenance
The flavors of pumpkin pie in a frozen custard, double (fresh) Ginger Pumpkin Custard Ice Cream will remind you of the best pumpkin pie you ever had!
The Best Healthy Coffee Cake – The Natural Vegan
This Healthy Coffee Cake is made with wholesome ingredients like Spelt flour and maple crystals and is topped with cinnamon crumble and a beautiful glaze!
Cinnamon Rolls With Apple Pie Filling (Just 2 Ingredients) – The Feathered Nester
A crowd-pleasing cinnamon roll bake is perfect for a stress-free holiday brunch. The sweet and tangy apple filling adds a delightful flavor.
Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins – Live Laugh Love with Me
This Pumpkin Muffins Recipe is sweetened with jaggery powder (which can be substituted with organic coconut sugar) and made with almond flour. These muffins are healthy and are completely refined flour-free and refined sugar-free.
Easy Apple Strudel Recipe with Puff Pastry – Beyond Kimchee
Easy apple strudel recipe using store-bought puff pastry and staples like apples, walnuts, and cinnamon. Perfect for dessert or a sweet breakfast treat!
Mini Pumpkin Oreo Cheesecakes – Homemade Hooplah
Combining the flavors of a simple chocolate Oreo crust with a decadent pumpkin filling, these mini pumpkin Oreo cheesecakes are packed with the essence of fall.
Caramel Apple Tart Recipe with Pecan Maple Butter – Foxes Love Lemons
This Apple Tart is a stunning fall dessert that combines shortcuts like store-bought pie crust with special touches like pecan butter and homemade caramel sauce.
Spiced Pumpkin Scones with Vanilla Glaze – Stretch and Folds
These fluffy and flavorful pumpkin scones are a delightful treat that perfectly captures the essence of fall. The buttery, flaky crust is complemented by a warm and spiced pumpkin filling that is both sweet and comforting. The addition of a sweet glaze adds a touch of decadence!
Mascarpone Cookies with Pumpkin – Susan Brings Dessert
These mascarpone cookies are moist, flavorful, and chewy. Topped with espresso frosting, they taste like a pumpkin cake and tiramisu cookie.
Pear Clafoutis – Newel Tasting Table
This Pear Clafoutis is a simple yet elegant dessert perfect for dinner parties. Sautéed pears are caramelized with butter, sugar, and brandy, then layered in a buttered baking dish. A smooth, custard-like batter made from flour, sugar, eggs, cream, and vanilla is poured over the pears before baking until golden and puffed.
Apple Cider Coffee Cake Recipe – Home Cooking Collective
This apple cider coffee cake is a moist cinnamon-spiced coffee cake studded with apples and apple cider, perfect for fall weather!
Cranberry Cobbler – Baked Abundance
This quick and easy cobbler recipe has a slightly cakey texture with crisp, salty edges from the melted butter. It’s topped with tart and tangy sugared cranberries – and you can use fresh or frozen cranberries.
Apple Upside Down Cake – Live to Sweet
This Apple Upside Down Cake is a spiced cake that starts with sliced apples and cider caramel on the bottom, but once the cake it inverted, they’re on top! Fantastic served warm or at room temperature, as-is or with a scoop of ice cream and salted caramel sauce.
Pecan Cream Pie – Flavor Mosaic
Elevate your dessert game with this Pecan Cream Pie. This delicious creation combines a flaky, baked crust with a creamy, decadent filling and a crunchy topping of pecans!
Spiced Apple Cupcakes – Our Love Language is Food
These delicious apple spice cupcakes with spiced buttercream frosting are sure to be a new fall favorite! Great for fall parties, birthdays, or as a special treat to share with family and friends.
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What is the most popular fall treat?
The most popular fall treat is arguably the pumpkin spice latte, a seasonal staple that signals the start of fall for many (including myself). ☕🎃
Other fall treat favorites are classic desserts like pumpkin pie, apple cider donuts, and pecan pie!
Each one of these seasonal favorites captures the warm, comforting flavors people crave as the weather cools down and fall festivities begin!
What is one popular sweet treat made from the fall harvest?
One popular sweet treat made from the fall harvest is homemade caramel apples. Crisp apples are dipped in gooey caramel and often rolled in nuts, chocolate, or candy for extra flavor and texture.
They make a perfect seasonal treat, which can also make a great homemade gift, that highlights the apple harvest while bringing a deliciously nostalgic taste of fall!
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These dishes look so yummy. I kind of have quite a few favorites here…I will have to try a few and experience in the kitchen this holiday. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome, Domii! I hope you have fun trying some new dessert recipes this holiday season. 🙂
these looks so amazing
I’m glad you’re loving the recipes, Jimmy! 🙂
These desserts are good for all seasons. I love pecan pie. Unfortunately, the only bakery in my neighborhood closed earlier this year and they make the best Pecan Pie. The Persimmon Galette is an interesting pastry. I hope I get to try it before the year ends.
Yes, the desserts are good for all seasons! That is unfortunate about the bakery closing. Maybe you can try replicating their recipe. Yes, the persimmon galette looks amazing and would be perfect for a dinner party. I hope you’ll get to try it! 🙂
There is not one of these sweet treats I could not enjoy. The Oreo pumpkin cheesecake cups is looks like it has a unique flavor combination. I like them all. If I could, I would eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 😆. Thank you for sharing another great blog of recipes.
Sweet treats are the best, Kevin! Yes I agree, the Oreo cheesecake cups are unique and super easy to make. I’m so glad you’re loving this dessert recipes roundup and my other recipe collections. I hope you get to try some this fall/winter (or any time of the year, really). Enjoy! 🙂
These sweet treats looks so yummy! I made apple cake using apples from my father’s in law garden, and it was lovely. I like apple cakes in autumn. Thanks for sharing!
That sounds lovely, Katy! Yum!
Give me some new ideas! Thanks for sharing!
You’re very welcome, Jarrod! I’m glad the list inspired you to try some new fall dessert recipes. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Can’t wait to try a few of these recipes!
Let me know how they turn out for you, Mandy! Enjoy. 🍁