55 Fall Baking Ideas
There’s something magical about fall that makes us want to head straight to the kitchen, preheat the oven, and fill the house with the warm aromas of cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin spice.
🍁 Cozy & Comforting: A Roundup of Fall Baking Recipes
As the leaves change and the air turns crisp, baking becomes more than just cooking—it becomes a way to celebrate the season. From apple pies and pumpkin breads to spiced cookies and rustic tarts, fall baking is all about comfort, nostalgia, and gathering around with the people we love.
This roundup brings together the best fall baking recipes to inspire your autumn kitchen adventures. Whether you’re looking for cozy weeknight treats, showstopping desserts for the holidays, or just an excuse to use all that fresh seasonal produce, these recipes will keep your oven busy and your table full of flavor.
Apple Cider Donuts That Taste Like Apples
Most apple cider donuts don’t actually taste like apples – until this recipe. Buy apple chips, grind them up in a food processor, and dunk donuts in the powder after they bake. Go to recipe.
Baked Gingerbread Donuts
These baked gingerbread donuts are delightfully warm in flavour, light in texture, and elevated to top tier by a sharp and sweet lemon glaze. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting have all the flavors of Fall. They are soft, sweet, slightly spiced cookies with pumpkin pie spice, and the cream cheese frosting adds that special, sweet, creamy finish. Go to recipe.
Apple Pie Breakfast Cookies
These apple pie oatmeal breakfast cookies are a fun option for busy fall mornings and made with simple, healthy ingredients! Go to recipe.
Caramel Apple Pretzel Bites
Caramel apple pretzel bites with chocolate are the perfect fall treat! These sweet and salty bites are ideal for parties, Halloween, or any occasion. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, chewy, and bursting with cozy fall flavors like pumpkin, cinnamon, and vanilla. Packed with hearty oats and melty chocolate chips, they’re a family favorite and one of the best pumpkin cookie recipes you’ll ever bake. Go to recipe.
Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies with Streusel
These cinnamon oatmeal cookies get a gourmet upgrade with a buttery streusel topping that bakes into golden, coffee-cake-like nuggets on every chewy bite. Go to recipe.
Oatmeal Pumpkin Cookies
Full of pumpkin spice, hearty oats, and gooey chocolate, these oatmeal pumpkin cookies are the ultimate fall dessert. They’re great for holiday gatherings or simple afternoon snacks. And with no mixer required, they come together in minutes. Go to recipe.
Best Banana And Pumpkin Muffins
Fall-inspired banana pumpkin muffins with a moist crumb and nutty pumpkin seed topping, quick, easy, and delicious for breakfast or snacks! Go to recipe.
Easy Apple Crumble Muffins With Oat Streusel Topping
These healthy apple muffins are nutritious and full of goodness. They are also comforting, warm, scrumptious and tastes like fall. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes
Soft and moist pumpkin spice cupcakes topped with a sweet and tangy maple cream cheese frosting. This easy pumpkin cupcake recipe is full of delicious fall flavor! Go to recipe.
Sourdough Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
These moist sourdough pumpkin muffins are made with real pumpkin puree and spices. Then, they’re filled with cream cheese just like the Starbucks seasonal favorite treat. Go to recipe.
Spiced Apple Cupcakes
These Spiced Apple Cupcakes are the perfect marriage of apple pie and delicious cupcakes. Moist, tender cupcakes filled with mashed homemade apple pie filling are topped with a rich, creamy caramel buttercream frosting for the most decadent fall flavor you’ve ever tasted. Go to recipe.
Air Fryer Pumpkin Spiced Crullers
Air Fryer Pumpkin Spiced Crullers are full of your favorite fall flavors! It’s quick and easy to make this healthier version of French crullers in the air fryer. Go to recipe.
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Scones
Perfect for breakfast, brunch, or a special treat, Gluten-Free Pumpkin Scones are a great way to indulge in a great treat that fits almost everybody’s dietary needs. With gluten-free flour and all the rest of a classic pumpkin scone ingredients, you can have these made in less than 30 minutes too! Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Scones Starbucks Copycat
Get ready to enjoy fall’s warm, cozy flavors with these pumpkin scones, a perfect Starbucks copycat recipe. They’re fluffy, moist, and topped with not one, but two delicious glazes that make them so irresistible. Go to recipe.
Carrot Cake Scones
These carrot cake scones are a fun and gently spiced twist on a classic cream tea favourite, blending the comforting flavours of traditional carrot cake with the buttery texture of a good scone. Go to recipe.
Puff pastry apple turnovers with apple pie filling
Flaky and crispy outer layer and juicy gooey inside filling makes this apple turnovers just perfect for fall baking! Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
These pumpkin cinnamon rolls with maple cream cheese frosting are the perfect fall weekend treat. Tender pumpkin dough is filled with a swirl of pumpkin pie spices and slathered with a decadent maple-flavored cream cheese frosting. What’s not to love? Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
This homemade Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls recipe is soft, fluffy, and tastes like fall! The cinnamon sugar filling has hints of ginger, nutmeg, and cloves, and a luscious cinnamon cream cheese frosting on top. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Bundt Cake
This Pumpkin Bundt Cake feature all the delicious flavors that come with the fall season. With a delicious and beautiful bundt cake packed with flavors like pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, and clove and an easy icing to finish it off, this will be a staple for autumn desserts. Go to recipe.
Poke and Pour Gingerbread Bundt Cake
There’s no dessert as cozy as the warmth of a delicious gingerbread bundt cake. Baked with the rich flavors of gingerbread, this spice cake gets a buttery sauce “poke cake” treatment immediately after removing from the oven. The result is a gorgeous gingerbread cake perfect for chilly days and the holiday season. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Roll
A classic fall season favorite, Pumpkin Roll Cake is a beautiful dessert! Tender pumpkin cake studded with walnuts is wrapped around a heavenly cream cheese frosting, and it’s easy to make with this recipe. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread
A delicious loaf cake which will please taste buds from little ones to seniors; this pumpkin chocolate chip bread is loved by everyone! Go to recipe.
Easy Pumpkin Bread With Cake Mix
This easy pumpkin bread with cake mix is soft, moist, and packed with fall flavor. Made in one bowl with just a few ingredients, perfect for cozy mornings or holiday treats! Go to recipe.
Pear Almond Tart (Tarte Bourdaloue)
Make the most of fall pears with this delicious pear and almond tart from Paris. Go to recipe.
Apple Frangipane Tart (French Apple and Almond Tart)
You can use a shop-bought shortcrust pastry or even prebaked tart crust, or you can go all out and make this French Apple and Almond Tart completely from scratch! One thing is for sure – this is one delicious autumnal tart that will become one of your favorite seasonal bakes! Go to recipe.
Apple Upside Down Cake
Apple upside down cake is an easy, one bowl fall dessert. This apple cake has a layer of buttery, brown sugar apples topping on a moist butter cake. Go to recipe.
Upside Down Whole Apple Cake
This apple upside down cake uses whole fresh apples and a caramel sauce to obtain a delicious apple cake for your coffee time. Bake it all year long, not only in fall season. Go to recipe.
Tufahije – Bosnian Apple Dessert
Tufahije are a classic, Bosnian poached apple dessert with Persian roots, still being a favorite today – for good reason. It’s one of those simple-looking sweet things that take your breath away with an incredible taste. They’re easy to make, but feel like something much more special that can be served on a holiday or just as a perfect sweet ending of the ordinary day. Go to recipe.
Upside Down Plum Cake
Another extra delicious fall baking recipe for your sweet cravings: plum cake. Fluffy cake with juicy delicious plums and cinnamon flavors on top. Are you craving it yet? Go to recipe.
Easy Cranberry Pie With Woven Lattice Crust
Cranberry Pie, made with fresh cranberries and a lattice top crust is the perfect easy holiday dessert to whip up using only 6 ingredients. Go to recipes.
Apple Crumble
Apple crumble is a comforting dessert that has tender spiced apples topped with a sweet crumble topping. This dessert is a great alternative to apple crisp! Go to recipe.
Szarlotka Recipe (Polish Apple Pie)
Szarlotka (Polish apple pie) has a buttery sweet semi-short pastry crust and a richly spiced apple filling. If you like classic apple pie and want to try something a little different, give this cozy, crowd-pleasing dessert a try! Go to recipe.
Apple Skillet Cake
This apple Skillet Cake brings together tender spiced apples and a buttery, golden batter, all baked to perfection in one pan. If you’re craving a simple dessert with big flavor, this skillet cake is a warm and satisfying choice. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Pie in Graham Cracker Crust
Easy pumpkin pie in graham cracker crust with condensed milk is the best fall dessert recipe! Making a store bought graham cracker crust pumpkin pie is the cheat code for a rich, decadent Thanksgiving pie in no time! You’ll be making your pumpkin pie with Keebler graham cracker crust from now own! Go to recipe.
Costco Pecan Pie
This Costco Pecan Pie is rich, gooey and loaded with a generous amount of pecans in every bite. With a crackly sugar top, thick syrupy filling and a flaky crust that holds its shape, this pie channels everything people love about Costco’s massive Kirkland Signature pies, but in a perfectly portioned homemade version. Go to recipe.
Cinnamon Roll Apple Pie
This cinnamon roll apple pie blends cinnamon roll crusts and spiced apple pie filling into one showstopper dessert. It’s rich, sweet and perfect for fall celebrations. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Chocolate Babka
Pumpkin Chocolate Babka – Moist, decadent swirled bread made with brioche dough flavored with sweet pumpkin and rich chocolate. A moist loaf, almost like a cake, makes a great breakfast or delicious dessert! Go to recipe.
Apple Pull Apart Bread with Caramel Icing
Apple pull apart bread filled with brown sugar cinnamon apples and topped with the most amazing caramel icing. The perfect fall dessert! Go to recipe.
Cranberry Orange Bread
This moist and easy cranberry orange bread combines the best of sweet and tart into an amazing loaf! The easy orange glaze takes this sweet bread up to the next level. Go to recipe.
Easy Pecan Upside Down Bundt Cake
Everything you love about both a moist bundt cake and pecan pie are combined into one amazing fall dessert. Go to recipe.
Apple Caramel Bundt Cake
This Apple Caramel Bundt Cake is one of our favorite Fall desserts. The cinnamon-spiced cake is packed with tender pieces of apples and crisp pecans, and drizzled with a rich, homemade caramel sauce. Go to recipe.
How to Make Delicious Apple Blondies: A Sweet and Spiced Fall Treat
Fall is the perfect time to add apple flavor to your desserts. Mix them up with apple butter to make these delicious apple blondies. Go to recipe.
Fresh Pumpkin Squares
These pumpkin squares are made with fresh pumpkin and are full of delicious pumpkin and cinnamon flavors. Easy to make and will disappear quickly from plates! Perfect fall baking for holyday season parties, to take to picnics or potlucks. Go to recipe.
Cranberry Crumb Bars
These Cranberry Crumb Bars are a delicious and easy way to put that leftover cranberry sauce to good use! The sweet and buttery, oat-filled crumb topping perfectly complements the tartness of the cranberries for an irresistible flavor combination. You’ll want to eat these for breakfast and dessert! Go to recipe.
Homemade oatmeal fig bars with fresh figs
Use fresh figs while they are in season in fall with these homemade bars. The crust is sturdy with filling as thick as possible while still holding together. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
Indulge in a classic Fall dessert with our irresistible Pumpkin Bars featuring soft, moist pumpkin cake generously topped with an incredible cream cheese frosting infused with warm spices in every bite. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Spice Brownies
Celebrate fall with these Pumpkin Spice Brownies—rich, fudgy chocolate brownies swirled with creamy pumpkin cheesecake and warm pumpkin pie spice. Go to recipe.
Winning Apple Pie Bars
These are the best apple pie bars you’ll sink your teeth into this fall. These apple pie bars contain a buttery, flaky double-crust, with a cinnamony apple filling. The most irresistible salted caramel is drizzled over the dessert for a delicious finale. Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake
Easy Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake combines a moist, buttery cake with a spiced pumpkin filling, and it’s unbelievably delicious! Go to recipe.
Pumpkin Slab Pie
Pumpkin slab pie is a perfect choice for holidays and fall gatherings. With a creamy filling, flaky crust and festive toppings, it’s a cozy treat everyone will love. Go to recipe.
Apple Spice Cake Recipe
Apple spice cake is the perfect Fall dessert recipe. Make it as a Thanksgiving dessert and for any of your holiday parties. Go to recipe.
Pear Cheese Strudel with Raisins
Is there anything sweeter than the smell of homemade strudel baking in the oven while you sip your morning coffee or gather around the kitchen with your family? This pear cheese strudel recipe brings cozy warmth to any day with its buttery, flaky layers and dreamy combination of cottage cheese, pears, raisins and cinnamon. Go to recipe.
Homemade Carrot Cake Recipe
This homemade carrot cake recipe is incredibly moist and tender with a perfectly soft crumb and balanced spices. Packed with fresh carrots and crunchy walnuts, it delivers a delightful texture in every bite. The warmth of the spices complements the natural sweetness, making it an irresistible treat. Go to recipe.
🍂 Baking the Season into Every Bite
Fall is the season of comfort food, and nothing captures that spirit quite like baking. With each pie, bread, and cookie, you’re not just making a dessert—you’re creating moments of warmth, tradition, and joy to savor and share.
Browse more ideas for this seasonal cooking:
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Which of these fall baking recipes will you be trying first? Let me know in the comments so I can see your autumn-inspired creations. And don’t forget to save this roundup for later—you’ll want these recipes on hand all season long.
Here’s to cozy kitchens, sweet aromas, and baking memories that last far beyond fall.
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