25 Easy Pumpkin Desserts to Make This Fall

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 & Breads

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.

Pumpkin Trifle Recipe

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Panera Pumpkin Muffins Recipe

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.

Panera Pumpkin Muffin Recipe

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Healthy Pumpkin Muffins Recipe

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.

Healthy Pumpkin Muffins Recipe

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Easy Pumpkin Muffins

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.

Easy Pumpkin Muffins Recipe

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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.

Easy Pumpkin Bread Recipe

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Vintage Pumpkin Cracker Bread

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.

Pumpkin Cracker Bread Recipe

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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.

Pumpkin Chocolate Swirl Bread Recipe

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Pumpkin Shaped Bread

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!

Pumpkin Shaped Bread Recipe

Pumpkin Cakes, Pies & Cheesecakes

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 Bundt Cake Recipe

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Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

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 Bars Recipe

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Easy No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe

Creamy, spiced No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake with a light mousse-like filling and buttery crust. Quick, make-ahead, and always a holiday favorite!

No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars Recipe

Let's make the ultimate autumn treat: pumpkin cheesecake bars. Creamy, delicious, warmly spiced, and perfect for the holidays or any fall day!

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

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2 Minute Pumpkin Mug Cake

Light, fluffy, and warmly spiced, this Pumpkin Mug Cake is a cozy dessert ready in 2 minutes and a perfect fix for fall dessert cravings!

Pumpkin Mug Cake Recipe

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Best Pumpkin Pie

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 Pie Recipe

Pumpkin Cookies & Bars

Pumpkin cookies and bars are quick, shareable treats that fill the kitchen with the warm scent of spice. Try chewy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, or classic pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting. They're easy to bake in batches and are always a crowd-pleaser.

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Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

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 Bars Recipe

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Pumpkin Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pumpkin Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies combines the best of chocolate chip cookies and pumpkin spice. All in one crispy-edged, gooey, chocolaty cookie.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

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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.

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Fudgy Double Chocolate Mocha Pumpkin Brownies

Fudgy Double Chocolate Mocha Pumpkin Brownies is a densely chocolate dream, with creamy orange pumpkin spice swirled into delicious fudgy bites.

Pumpkin Mocha Brownies Recipe

Pumpkin Donuts & Breakfast-Style Desserts

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.

Pumpkin Donuts Recipe

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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.

Pumpkin Scones Recipe

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones are tender, spiced, and filled with melty chocolate chips - a cozy fall treat for breakfast, brunch, or afternoon tea.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones Recipe

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15-Minute Easy Pumpkin Scones

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.

15 Minute Pumpkin Scones Recipe

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Easy Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe

Pumpkin Pancakes made light and fluffy with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. Perfect for chilly mornings with toasted pecans and warm maple syrup.

Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe

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Easy Pumpkin Waffles

Warm up your chilly autumn mornings with these Pumpkin Waffles packed with favorite flavors of the season.

Pumpkin Waffles Recipe

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Pumpkin Butter Recipe

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 Butter Recipe

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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