The Best Fall Baking Recipes (Easy Thanksgiving Dessert Ideas)
Embrace the cozy vibes of fall with these delicious fall baking recipes and easy Thanksgiving dessert ideas that are perfect for the autumn season.
From warm apple pies, pumpkin spice treats, cranberry desserts, and everything in between, these simple Fall desserts will make your home smell amazing and your family’s tastebuds extra happy.
Be sure and pin this post for later so you can make these Fall baking recipes every year!
The Best Fall Baking Recipes (Delicious and Easy)
If I had to pick a favorite baking season, Fall would definitely be it!
I love me some apple pie, pumpkin-spice flavored treats, and personally – I could skip Thanksgiving dinner and go straight for the dessert.
That’s why today I’m sharing 16 delicious and easy Thanksgiving dessert ideas!
Cara’s Tip:
- Check Your Spices for Expiration – For the best flavor possible, make sure you double-check the dates on all of your Fall spices to ensure they aren’t expired. Ingredients such as pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon taste better fresh and are inexpensive to purchase each Fall baking season.
16 Delicious Fall Baking Recipes
Check out our 16 best fall baking recipes below for easy and delicious treats you’ll want to make again and again.
Even better, they’re all super easy to prepare, making them the perfect choice for Thanksgiving dessert.
For quick access, I’ve organized them by category below!
Easy Fall Baking Recipes to Make for Thanksgiving Dessert
Apple Cinnamon Fall Baking Recipes
These old-fashioned, homemade fried apple pies feature a buttery, flaky pie crust that’s made from scratch, a delicious cinnamon sugar apple pie filling, and is coated in a sweet powdered sugar glaze for pies that are sure to impress everyone.
These are one of my family’s personal favorites and always get rave reviews!
Plus, did I mention they’re super easy to make?
This apple crisp is the perfect warm and cozy Fall treat!
It’s made with a delicious combination of granny smith apples and honey crisp apples and topped with a buttery cinnamon sugar oat mixture that’s delightful.
Top it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and enjoy!
Grab a yellow cake mix and some apples and you have yourself a date with this incredibly delicious apple coffee cake!
This cake is soft and tender, loaded with sweet and tart diced apples, and is topped with yummy brown sugar cinnamon streusel topping and powdered sugar glaze.
Plus, it’s an easy 9×13 dessert to take to all your Fall gatherings with family and friends!
Mamaw Allie’s Easy Applesauce Cake
If you’ve never tried applesauce cake, let me introduce you to your new favorite Fall cake, courtesy of my Mamaw Allie.
This applesauce cake is super moist, perfectly sweet, and flavored with warm autumn spices for an unbelievably delicious cake you’ll love to make every Fall and holiday season.
Caramel Fall Baking Recipes
Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake
If you love Pineapple Upside Down Cake but want to switch up the flavors for Fall, then this is the cake for you!
This beautiful and delicious caramel apple upside down cake features a vanilla cake that’s made from scratch, sliced fresh apples, and a sweet caramel sauce made with cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter.
Plus, can we all just agree that it’s a total showstopper?!
These delicious salted caramel apple pie bars are just like homemade apple pie except even easier, and the perfect choice for Thanksgiving dessert.
These bars are made with granny smith apples and topped with a decadent homemade caramel sauce that’s quick and easy to prepare.
Caramel Spice Cake Mix Cookies
Need a Fall dessert fast?
These caramel spice cookies only take around 10 minutes to bake in the oven, so they’re the perfect choice when you’re in a rush.
They’re also unbelievably easy to make with just 4 ingredients!
Apple and Peanut Butter Fall Baking Recipes
Forget plain ol’ apple pie and add its’ best friend – peanut butter!
Featuring a mix of tart and sweet apples and a decadent peanut butter and oats crumble topping this apple crumb pie is the perfect Fall dessert!
All the peanut butter lovers will be begging you to make this delicious pie every year.
Apple Peanut Butter French Toast Roll-Ups
Have some leftover bread you need to use up?
These fun and delicious apple French toast roll-ups are made with slices of white sandwich bread, slathered with a mouthwatering peanut butter and apple-filled cinnamon swirl spread, and oven baked to perfection in under 15 minutes.
The whole family will love these easy french toast roll-ups, and they’re perfect for a special breakfast during the Fall and holiday season!
Pumpkin Spice Fall Baking Recipes
Maple Glazed Pumpkin Cake Mix Cookies
I’ve been making these scrumptious cookies for my family for years now and they are perfect for a quick and easy Thanksgiving dessert.
These Cake Mix Pumpkin Spice Cookies are made with a simple boxed cake mix and topped with a cinnamon maple glaze that’s oh so yummy!
Swirled Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread
This cream cheese pumpkin bread is soft, moist, and full of a delicious pumpkin spice flavor and beautiful, sweet swirls of cream cheese throughout.
Best of all, this pumpkin bread with cream cheese filling is super simple to make and can be ready to bake in the oven in less than 10 minutes time.
Want to make something other than pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving this year?
These delicious pumpkin streusel bars are quick and easy to make with a yellow cake mix and other simple ingredients.
Plus they make enough for a 9×13 pan – perfect for feeding a crowd at your next gathering!
Pumpkin and Chocolate Fall Baking Recipes
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you love soft and delicious chocolate chip cookies, then you need to try these fall flavored cookies ASAP!
Pumpkin spice and chocolate chips combine for a match made in heaven and they’re a cookie recipe you’ll definitely want to keep.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake
If you want a showstopper cake for the Thanksgiving holiday that a. looks beautiful and b. tastes incredible, this is it!
This Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake features a homemade pumpkin cake that is flavored with delicious cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice and loaded with chocolate chips.
It’s the flavor combo you never knew you needed, but you’ll immediately love – pinky promise!
Cranberry Fall Baking Recipes
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
These white chocolate cranberry cookies are soft, chewy, and delicious, and the perfect cookie for making during the Fall and holiday baking season.
Tart dried cranberries and sweet white chocolate chips perfectly complement one another and these tasty cookies won’t last long on your dessert table.
Double Chocolate Cranberry Bundt Cake
This Easy and Delicious Double Chocolate Cranberry Bundt Cake is made with a simple french vanilla cake mix, frozen cranberries, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and topped with a white chocolate glaze for one incredibly delicious cake.
It’s the perfect cranberry cake to make for the Fall season or year-round!
More Recipes You’ll Love
I hope you enjoyed today’s roundup of The Best Fall Baking Recipes!
Which recipe are you excited to try first? Let me know in the comments below!
Thanks for stopping by! – Cara
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