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60 Favorite Fall Dessert Recipes (2024)

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by Michelle
September 3, 2015 (updated Mar 18, 2020)

A roundup of my favorite fall dessert recipes including bars, cakes, cookies, candy, cheesecake, pastries, cupcakes, pie and even ice cream!

Do you mourn Labor Day weekend as the end of summer, or do you get excited at the thought of ushering in the fall season? While fall doesn’t technically begin until September 23rd, I think the majority of us see Labor Day as the unofficial start to the season. And what better way to kick off the start-of-fall-weekend than to share with you my favorite fall desserts!

Fall baking is highlighted by flavors like cinnamon, apples, pumpkin and maple, and you’ll find all of those and more in the roundup below. Get ready for hot chocolate, hay rides, cozy hoodies and lots of baking!

Fall Bars and Blondies

1. Apple Cheesecake Crumb Bars

2. Chocolate Chip-Pecan Pie Bars

3. Dutch Apple Pie Bars

4. Maple-Date Bars

5. Maple Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

6. Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

7. Pumpkin Blondies

8. Pumpkin Pie Bars

9. Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal Crumb Bars(pictured above)

10. Snickerdoodle Blondies

Fall Cakes

11.

12. Applesauce Snack Cake with Oat-Nut Streusel

13. Pumpkin Roll

14. Russian Grandmothers’ Apple Pie-Cake

15. Salted Caramel Apple Cake(pictured above)

Fall Candy

16. Apple Cider Caramels(pictured above)

17. Candy Corn and Pretzel Chocolate Bark

18. Homemade Caramel Apples

19. Leftover Halloween Candy Bark

20. Maple-Walnut Fudge

21. Pumpkin Fudge

22. Pumpkin Seed Brittle with Cardamom and Vanilla Bean

Fall Cheesecakes

24. Brown Sugar-Apple Cheesecake

25. Pumpkin Cheesecake

26. Salted Caramel Apple Cheesecake Pie(pictured above)

Fall Cookies

27. Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing

28. Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Maple-Cream Cheese Filling

29. Snickerdoodle Biscotti

30. Snickerdoodles

31. Soft and Chewy Gingersnap Cookies

32. Soft and Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies(pictured above)

33. Ultimate Ginger Cookies

Fall Condiments & Sauces

34. Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce(pictured above)

35. Slow Cooker Apple Butter

Fall Crisps & Cobblers

36. Almond-Apple Crisp(pictured above)

37. Skillet Apple Crisp

Fall Cupcakes

38. Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

39. Pumpkin Spice Latte Cupcakes(pictured above)

40. Snickerdoodle Cupcakes

Fall Ice Cream

41. Apple Pie Ice Cream

42. Cinnamon Ice Cream

43. Maple-Walnut Ice Cream(pictured above)

44. Pumpkin Ice Cream

Fall Pastries & Breads

45. Apple Cinnamon Bread

46. Apple Dumplings(pictured above)

47. Apple Fritter Doughnuts

48. Apple Hand Pies

Fall Pies & Tarts

51. Apple Slab Pie

52. Classic Apple Pie

53. Cranberry-Ginger Pear Pie

54. Dutch Apple Pie

55. Maple-Apple Pie with Walnut Crumble Topping

56. Pecan Pie

57. Pumpkin Pie(pictured above)

58. Salted Caramel Apple Pie

59. Sweet Potato Pie

Fall Trifles

60. Pumpkin-Gingerbread Trifle(pictured above)

What is your favorite fall dessert?

Originally published September 3, 2015 — (last updated March 18, 2020)

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12 Comments on “60 Favorite Fall Dessert Recipes”

yy — September 4, 2015 @ 7:40 am Reply
Thank you for the list. I was literally just thinking that I needed to bake your amazing Apple Cinnamon Bread the day this list appeared in my inbox! It really is one of the best recipes ever!
Morning — September 3, 2015 @ 11:51 pm Reply
Thanks for these recipes. I love it
Megan @ Pastry School Dropout — September 3, 2015 @ 11:14 pm Reply
I’m definitely bookmarking this. My favorite fall dessert is pumpkin pie. Boring, but delicious! Thanksgiving is hands down my favorite holiday. Bring on fall!
Melissa — September 3, 2015 @ 3:22 pm Reply
Yum yum yum! Would it be bad if I made a goal to make every single one of these?
- Michelle — September 4, 2015 @ 9:43 am Reply
  I think that’s an awesome goal :)
sandy — September 3, 2015 @ 10:58 am Reply
Are there enough days in Fall for all these great recipes, great job… Trifle will go to a family reunion this month.
Kristen — September 3, 2015 @ 10:52 am Reply
Thank you for gathering these wonderful fall recipes into one place. They all look so beautiful. I love the pumpkin oatmeal bars. Last night I was laying in bed thinking about your maple walnut ice cream which I am going to make today. So looking forward to fall.
Martha in KS — September 3, 2015 @ 9:47 am Reply
Thanks for these recipes. Fall baking flavors are my favorites!
Mary D — September 3, 2015 @ 9:41 am Reply
No way I could chose a favorite fall dessert but I am going to make your Apple Dumplings for my sister who’s visiting next week!
Michelle — September 3, 2015 @ 8:21 am Reply
This is just about the greatest round up of recipes I have ever seen!! Michelle, you have outdone yourself with this list. It’s fabulously organized and the lead picture’s recipe identified . . . You certainly know how to inspire and motivate a person to begin thinking about fall baking in the midst of these dog days of summer. Now to decide what to make first – there is something here for every day of the fall season :D
Jaclyn — September 3, 2015 @ 1:48 am Reply
Seriously amazing collection of fall recipes! They all look divine! And that salted caramel apple cake is gorgeous/flawless/I need it.
Bella B — September 3, 2015 @ 12:34 am Reply
This is way too much sweet inspiration to take in at one time! :)
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