31 Easy Fall Desserts to Bake This Year
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Easy Fall Desserts: The season is changing and there is no better way to celebrate than with fall baking. We’ve gathered some of the most delicious yet easy baking recipes we could find and filled with the autumn ingredients we love.
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From pies to tarts, muffins, pumpkin bread, scones, cakes, and cookies, these are fall desserts you need to make this season.
The leaves outside my windows are glowing in reds and russets, oranges, and yellow. The squirrels are scampering to capture the acorns falling from our oak trees. The crisp autumn air is swirling those leaves in spirals as they flutter to the ground.
Pumpkins line walkways, porches, and front doors in my neighborhood.
It’s fall.
And it’s time to bake delicious fall desserts.
Easy Fall Desserts
Here are 31-plus stunningly beautiful, yet easy and delicious fall baking ideas to make all season.
31 Easy Fall Desserts
It's time for fall desserts. The season is changing and there is no better way to celebrate than with fall baking. We've gathered some of the most delicious yet easy dessert recipes we could find. Filled with autumn ingredients we love.
The Best Pumpkin Pie Recipe
“You’ll probably make at least one pumpkin pie this season, and you can either make a normal easy pumpkin pie or you can make a gorgeous easy pumpkin pie.”
Figgy Oat Coffee Cake
“We updated the classic streusel coffee cake with fresh ripe figs and almonds. No need to distinguish between breakfast and dessert—it’s an eat-it-anytime-you-crave-it cake.”
Buckwheat Apple Galette with Maple Walnut Frangipane {gluten-free, refined sugar-free}
“This gluten-free buckwheat apple galette epitomizes fall baking with the warm flavors of maple syrup and maple sugar meeting tart apple slices and toasty buckwheat. Free of refined sugar.”
Maple-Glazed Baked Apples
“Turn your bag of orchard-fresh apples into an adorable autumn treat using only five ingredients. Maple syrup, cider, and butter create the bubbly homemade glaze, while cinnamon sticks inserted into the tops turn these individual apple desserts into mini pumpkins.”
Cinnamon Brioche Bread Pudding Recipe
Cinnamon Brioche Bread pudding is a simple yet rich dessert with tantalizingly delicious comfort food flavors. It's deceptively easy to make, yet special and beautiful to serve. A dessert you'll want to come back to time and time again.
Easy Pumpkin Bread Recipe
It's time to bake this favorite Pumpkin Bread recipe when the leaves begin their glorious transformation. Or even before, you will find me whipping up my all-time favorite pumpkin bread. It's like a rite of passage into an amazing season. This pumpkin bread is a liberally spiced, dense, cake-like bread we absolutely love.
Pumpkin Scones with Cinnamon Icing
These easy pumpkin scones are the first thing I bake when fall leaves begin to color. Filled with warm autumn spices, moist and tender, and drizzled with cinnamon icing. They're coffee shop perfect, especially with a morning latte. Or incredibly wonderful with afternoon tea.
Easy Pumpkin Cookies with Vanilla Butter Icing
Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Vanilla Butter Icing are a vintage-inspired, melt-in-your-mouth, light, and airy cookie, so delicious it will become a fall tradition.
Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Maple Glaze
Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Maple Glaze is a healthier apple cake recipe made with yogurt and grated apple. Warm spices permeate this delicious and easy cake and an unforgettable brown sugar maple glaze is drizzled just before serving.
Cinnamon-Apple Flatbread
“This light-textured yeast bread, topped with cinnamon-y apples, is a delicious snack or breakfast bread.”
German Peach Kuchen
German Peach Kuchen, a favorite late season, early September treat. Moist and dense with the warm flavors of spiced cinnamon and peaches, it's a cake you'll come back to again and again.
Scottish Oat Maple Scones
These Scottish Oat Maple Scones are crumbly and robust with that favorite maple flavor we all love. Perfect with a cup of tea and a dab of Irish butter.
Easy 4 Ingredient Baked Pears
These Baked Pears are EASY and delicious with 4 simple ingredients. Drizzled in honey, warmed with spiced cinnamon and crunchy with granola. A go-to desserts without the guilt!
Gingerbread Cake
Celebrate the holidays with a simple, easy gingerbread cake, moist and delicious with molasses and ground spices of the season.
Simple 25 Minute Pumpkin Butter
Treat yourself, today, to this homemade Pumpkin Butter that is rich and creamy and incredibly delicious. Made on the stovetop with 7 simple pantry ingredients in 20 to 25 minutes. It's a simple way to celebrate the best of fall.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones are an incredible, tender, delicious fall scone perfect for breakfast or brunch, with coffee, or for tea. Simple to make in minutes, they are addictively yummy!
Chocolate Swirl Pumpkin Bread
Chocolate Swirl Pumpkin Bread is a decadently delicious fall treat that's rather incredibly yummy with the pumpkin spice flavors and rich chocolate swirled and marbled into the bread. Making it a pumpkin bread you won't soon forget.
Whole Wheat Spice Bars with Maple-Cream Icing
“Take comfort this chilly season with moist molasses-maple bars. Give them a little extra flair by spreading on our maple-cream icing, or use stencils to make powdered sugar leaves on the yummy fall dessert.”
Maple Apple Banana Bread: A Treat for Fall
All the flavors of the season in this delicious, quick bread.
Browned Butter Hummingbird Coffee Cake
“This is your best excuse for having cake for breakfast. Browned butter adds depth to this unexpected twist on the classic Southern banana-pineapple confection. Pecan streusel is just, well, the icing on the coffee cake.”
Apple Pie
“Apple pie: American icon, most popular pie, and the ONE dessert everyone has to make for Thanksgiving. With its flaky, buttery crust; tart-sweet apples, and wonderful cinnamon-y aroma, a slice of warm apple pie is the perfect end to any repast, from casual lunch to elegant dinner. Add vanilla bean ice cream, and you’ve got a dessert for the ages.”
Easy Apple Slab Pie
This Apple Slab Pie recipe is a simple way to make an apple pie that feeds a crowd and is 100% delicious with warm spices of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Using ready-made crusts speeds up the process and delivers a fabulous pie everyone will love.
Vermont Maple Pecan Bar Cookies
“Vermont Maple Pecan Bar Cookies, a chewy and dense bar cookie, rich with autumnal maple pecan flavoring.”
Sunflower Seed Spread Cookies
“What’s more comforting than a warm, fresh-baked cookie? How about a warm, fresh-baked cookie made with only five ingredients, that can be pulled together in about 15 minutes?”
Old Fashioned Baked Apple Cider Donuts
Irresistibly delicious Apple Cider Donuts. While these doughnuts are baked using 6-cavity doughnut pans, they can easily be made into doughnut holes by using a mini muffin pan. Or even baked into standard size muffin tins by adding a few more minutes of baking.
Butterscotch Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream
“Finished off with a silky Swiss meringue buttercream and a generous pour of salted caramel, this sheet cake is pure butterscotch bliss.”
Maple Banana Muffins
This Maple Banana Muffin recipe is soft and delicious, with an enticing hint of fall. Maple and cinnamon warm up this perennial favorite banana muffin.
Maple Pecan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Bringing fall flavor to a favorite and classic oatmeal raisin cookie!
Easy Donut Recipes When You're Craving Warm Delicious Treats
These Chocolate Baked Donuts are soft and light, filled with a double dose of chocolate. Triple chocolate, if you count the glaze. And I do… count the glaze! And easy? Oh my. There is no frying, the batter is a breeze to make with ingredients you likely have on hand.
Baked Maple Donuts with Pecans
Let’s talk about donuts, specifically maple donuts. Are they on your top 10 list of favorite donuts? If not, they should be! These maple donuts, are a scrumptious cake-like baked donut with warm spices of the season and topped with a thick maple glaze and crunchy chopped pecans.
More Fall Desserts You Have to Try
Cakes & Pastries
- 15 Minute Easy Pumpkin Scones
- 2-Minute Gingerbread Cake in a Mug
- Apple Strudel
- Drop Pumpkin Scones with Thyme
- German Peach Kuchen
- German Apple Kuchen
- Ginger Pecan Cranberry Scones
- Irish Apple Cake
- Petite Apple Cinnamon Scones
- Petite Pain au Chocolat
- Plum Cake
- Raw Apple Cake
- >> More Dessert recipes
Bread & Muffins
- Banana Ginger Muffins
- Banana Nut Bread Muffins
- Banana Oat Muffins
- Cinnamon Apple Bran Muffins
- Coconut Pumpkin Pecan Muffins
- Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread with Espresso
- Gingerbread Muffins
- Honey Whole Wheat Bread
- Maple Apple Banana Bread
- Pumpkin Bread
- Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread
- >> More Breads & Muffins recipes
Cookies
- Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
- Giant Molasses Cookies
- Ginger Spice Cookies
- Masala Chai Spiced Icebox Cookies
- Oatmeal Chocolate Coconut Cookies
- Portland Bar Cookies
- Vermont Maple Pecan Bar Cookies
- >> More Cookies recipes