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Fellow pumpkin spice lovers, you've come to the right place. You'll find some of our best pumpkin dessert recipes to satisfy all season long-cookies, cakes, donuts, cheesecake, muffins, and, of course, pumpkin pie.
For a quick and easy treat, try this simple but festive Pumpkin Trifle recipe!
Pumpkin is the flavor of fall-sweet, cozy, and perfect for baking. Whether you're craving a quick pumpkin mug cake after dinner, a batch of Panera Pumpkin Muffins for breakfast, or a show-stopping pumpkin cheesecake for the holidays, these desserts bring the taste of autumn straight to your table.
This collection highlights my favorite easy pumpkin dessert recipes. Each one is tested, reader-loved, and designed to make the most of pumpkin puree, whether you've just opened a can or are planning for Thanksgiving. From simple cookies and bars to cakes, pies, and no-bake options, there's something here for every baker.
So preheat the oven (or microwave!), stock up on pumpkin, and get ready to enjoy the cozy sweetness of fall.
Pumpkin muffins and quick breads are some of the easiest ways to enjoy fall baking. From soft, bakery-style Panera Pumpkin Muffins to naturally sweetened healthy pumpkin muffins, and moist pumpkin breads that are a highlight of the season. Some are swirled with chocolate or made with graham, making these recipes cozy staples that work well for breakfast, snacking, or even as a light dessert.
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Easy Pumpkin Spice Trifle
This Pumpkin Trifle is a beautiful fall dessert featuring layers of pumpkin bread, pumpkin mascarpone cream, and whipped cream topped with gingersnaps and pecans. It's easy to make ahead, stunning on the table, and tastes like pumpkin pie in trifle form-rich, creamy, and irresistibly festive.
These Copycat Panera Pumpkin Muffins are tall, tender, and spiced with cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and a hint of cardamom. Crowned with a crunchy streusel and finished with a snowy powdered sugar dust, they're bakery-perfect at home in jumbo or standard size.
These Healthy Pumpkin Muffins contain no refined sugar and make the most delicious pumpkin spice muffins. Packed with the warm spices you expect, they are a no-guilt, healthier treat for breakfast, snacks, or dessert in the fall.
These easy Pumpkin Muffins recipe is everything you love about pumpkin spice. Beautifully domed, moist, and tender muffins that taste like fall in every bite.
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.
Do you love vintage recipes? Me too! Pumpkin Cracker Bread-- It's a thing! It's vintage... and it works! It's quite delicious and moist and, it couldn't be easier to make with 5 ingredients and zero flour.
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.
This Pumpkin Shaped Bread is a delicious, soft, tender, slightly sweetened bread that's perfect during the autumn months and is easier to make than you might imagine. And time? That's easy too; it's ready in about one hour!
Nothing says fall dessert like a slice of pumpkin cake or pie. These easy recipes range from a simple pumpkin bundt cake to reader-favorite no bake pumpkin cheesecake or pumpkin cheesecake bars, or even the quintessential pumpkin pie recipe that's perfect for Thanksgiving. Whether you bake a bundt cake or whip up a no-bake version, pumpkin shines in every bite.
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Pumpkin Bundt Cake Recipe
This Pumpkin Bundt Cake is tender and rich with the flavors of fall. An incredibly easy cake to make, beautiful to serve, and delicious with a velvety vanilla Cream Cheese Icing.
Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting - soft, spiced pumpkin squares baked in a 9×13 pan and topped with rich cream cheese frosting. A fall favorite!
A time-honored tradition, this recipe is inspired by Libby's 1950s Pumpkin Pie recipe and is the only one I make for the family every year. Simple to make and utterly delicious!
Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting - soft, spiced pumpkin squares baked in a 9×13 pan and topped with rich cream cheese frosting. A fall favorite!
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.
Pumpkin isn't just for after dinner-it makes delicious morning treats too. Soft pumpkin donuts, tender pumpkin scones, and fluffy pumpkin pancakes double as sweet desserts. These recipes bring pumpkin spice flavor to every part of the day.
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Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe
These soft and fluffy baked pumpkin donuts are filled with cozy fall spices and finished with cinnamon sugar. Quick, easy, and perfect for autumn mornings.
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.
These 15 Minute Pumpkin Scones are 3 ingredients, and so incredibly easy. So simple, in fact, they're hardly even a recipe. But they're quick, flaky, and so delicious, you'll find yourself making them all fall.
Pumpkin Pancakes made light and fluffy with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. Perfect for chilly mornings with toasted pecans and warm maple syrup.
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 desserts are one of the joys of autumn baking: simple, comforting, and perfect for sharing with family and friends. Whether you try a new favorite or return to a classic recipe, these pumpkin treats will carry you through fall celebrations and holiday gatherings with ease. For even more ideas, don't miss my full collection of Pumpkin Recipes.
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