The start of fall brings cooler days and the return of comforting flavors that make desserts feel extra special. Baking during this season can be simple while still capturing the warmth and coziness everyone looks forward to. Using seasonal ingredients and easy techniques, you can create sweets that set the tone for the months ahead and make the season feel truly celebrated.
Pecan Snowball Cookies
These sweet, crunchy, buttery pecan snowball cookies are a delicious way to decorate your dessert table this holiday season! Also known as Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cookies, these snowy treats use just a handful of basic pantry staples to create a fun-shaped and eye-catching dessert that all ages will love.
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Cinnamon Apple Cake
This easy, cinnamon apple cake is just what you need to bring your dessert table to life this fall! It has a moist cinnamon cake layer topped with fresh apples and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar for the perfect finishing touch. You can serve it with a hot cup of coffee or tea as a sweet breakfast!
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Apple Pie Cupcakes
This delicious cupcake features a brown sugar, cinnamon cupcake base that is enhanced with fall spices, apple pie filling, and a delicate whipped mascarpone frosting! This recipe is much easier than a traditional apple pie, and perfect for beginner bakers.
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Cinnamon Babka
Made with soft, buttery dough twisted in cinnamon sugar and glossed with light homemade sugar syrup, this cozy cinnamon babka is undoubtedly a crowd-pleaser! It is perfectly sweet and warmly spiced, making it an ideal treat for breakfast, an afternoon snack, or after dinner.
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Almond Pear Cake
This single-layer cake is loaded with almond flavor and juicy pears, and you'll be amazed at how easy it is! The cinnamon and orange zest-infused poached pears blend perfectly with a moist and delicious cake packed with almond, vanilla, and cardamom.
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Pumpkin Hand Pies
With a creamy pumpkin filling and a buttery, flaky crust, these adorable pumpkin hand pies are a fun and easy addition to your fall dessert table. They are an easy and portable alternative to the traditional pumpkin pie.
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Pecan Upside Down Cake
This exceptional pecan upside-down cake is a perfect dessert for fall or Thanksgiving. It's an excellent harmony of moist yogurt cake as the base and caramelized pecan topping! The cake can be made in any pan you have, even in a Bundt pan, to turn it into a festive Pecan Upside-down Bundt cake.
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Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Making pecan chocolate chip cookies is one of the easiest and most delicious ways to celebrate the flavors of fall! Loaded with pecans, cinnamon, brown butter, and brown sugar, these treats are wonderfully rich yet well-balanced in sweetness, thanks to the addition of sea salt.
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Pumpkin Blondies
Super gooey and chewy pumpkin blondies loaded with warm pumpkin flavor and spices are the perfect sweet snack for fall! With pumpkin pie spice, chocolate chips, and hints of caramel butterscotch undertones, they might be your favorite easy snack this season!
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Pumpkin Custard Pie
This is, hands down, the best pumpkin custard pie recipe for fall. It features a flaky, buttery pie crust filled with silky, creamy, incredible, delicious pumpkin custard flavored with aromatic orange zest and nutmeg. This Pumpkin pie is made without evaporated milk, yet super rich, smooth, and full of fall flavors everyone loves!
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Pecan Brownies
This fudgy pecan brownie recipe might be your favorite brownie recipe all year round! It has the perfect combination of thick, fudgy, and gooey inside, with a crinkly, crispy top and an intense chocolate flavor, crunchy pecans, and a hint of cinnamon. It is rich yet very well-balanced in sweetness!
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Baked Pumpkin Spice Donuts
You are going to fall in love with these super moist and delicious baked pumpkin spice donuts, which are the perfect start to a perfect morning! They are packed with pumpkin, spiced with all the best iconic fall flavors, and coated in a simple cinnamon sugar mixture that is absolutely yummy!
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Brioche Cinnamon Roll
Fragrant and full of flavor, these melt-in-your-mouth brioche cinnamon rolls are the best thing in the morning! Made with buttery brioche dough rolled up with a sweet cinnamon sugar filling and topped with a creamy homemade cream cheese frosting, you'll want to have them for breakfast as well as dessert!
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Puff Pastry Pumpkin Turnovers
If you're looking for an easy and quick dessert then you will love, these puff pastry pumpkin turnovers! Crunchy and flaky on the outside and sweet and creamy on the inside, these warm pumpkin treats are super easy to make.
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Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting
This incredible, moist, easy pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting is the perfect fall cake for the pumpkin season. It's a fluffy pumpkin loaf infused with aromatic fall spices, frosted with an easy, three-ingredient cream cheese icing that is very well-balanced in sweetness. It's also made without butter!
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Pumpkin Roll
If you’re looking for a pumpkin roll that is not dense, sticky, or too sweet, then this pumpkin roll recipe is your answer! The secret is simple. This pumpkin roll is made with a genoise cake, resulting in a light and fluffy cake roll that is neither too sweet nor too dry, unlike most other pumpkin roll recipes.
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Caramel Apple Tart Recipe with Pecan Maple Butter
This apple tart is a stunning fall dessert that combines store-bought pie crust with special touches, such as pecan butter and homemade caramel sauce. Combining seasonal flavors like apples, pecans, and maple syrup, it’s the ideal dessert for fall gatherings or Thanksgiving.
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Pumpkin Bundt Cake
This pumpkin bundt cake features all the delicious flavors of fall. With a delightful and beautiful bundt cake packed with flavors like pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, and an easy icing to finish it off, this will be a staple for autumn desserts.
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Apple Pecan Pie
Here's a delicious pie mashup you may have never tried: apple pecan pie! It's a fabulous combination of two classic pie recipes, and I think you'll love it! Gooey caramel pecan pie filling pairs so well with apples, then add crunchy nuts on top, and oh my!
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Apple Upside Down Cake
Apple upside-down cake is an easy, one-bowl fall dessert. This apple cake features a layer of buttery, brown sugar-topped apples on a moist butter cake. Apple upside-down cake is the fall-flavored version of the classic. This cake combines all the best parts of the classic, buttery brown sugar topping and sweet, rich butter cake, with apples replacing the pineapple.
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