Planning some seasonal parties? These Fall desserts, sweets, and festive treats, will be a hit at any gathering with flavors to please everyone!
Fall Desserts
It’s fall and that means it’s time to bust out all the baking supplies and start whipping up all varieties of cakes, pies, fudge, candy, bars and brownies.
I love the crispness in the air, plus it’s cool enough to have the oven on and spend all day in the kitchen!
These fall desserts and treats will inspire you to start baking early and maybe get some edible gifts made and get you ahead in the shopping department.
1. Pie Crust Cookies
These pie crust cookies use up leftover pie crusts and transforms it into delicious cookies. Flaky, buttery, and customized with your favorite flavors!
Cut them into you favorite shape for a holiday or special occasion.
2. Candied Pecans
These quick and easy candied pecans are the perfect sweet snack for munching, adding to a salad, or topping your favorite dessert.
4 ingredients are all you need!
3. Caramel Fireball Truffles
Creamy caramel meets a salty cracker and fall in love.
They drink to their love with Caramel Fireball Truffles and swim in some chocolate to complete their date!
4. Butter Pecan Fudge
This Butter Pecan Fudge recipe is super easy and perfect for your sweet tooth.
Creamy, buttery, and full of nutty toasted pecans, it’s perfect for any occasion and makes a delicious gift!
Fresh apples, pears, and kiwi, tossed with apple pie spice, a pinch of sugar, and served with baked cinnamon sugar pita chips!
6. Sweet Potato Souffle Dip
Sweet Potato Soufflé Dip with toasted marshmallow is your favorite fall side dish transformed into a sweet potato appetizer.
Dip in some cinnamon graham cracker sticks for an even sweeter treat!
7. Fluffy Pumpkin Dip
Pumpkin Fluff Dip is the perfect Fall party appetizer! Sweet and creamy, it tastes like a pumpkin pie.
Mixed with gooey marshmallow cream, fluffy cool whip, and topped with nutty & toasty graham cookies!
8. Caramel Apple Empanadas
Caramel Apple Empanadas are flaky, buttery hand pies filled with fresh Granny Smith apples, apple pie spice, and a rich caramel sauce.
9. Buckeye Candy Recipe
Traditional Buckeyes are delicious peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate to form the perfect treat.
I take it two steps more and add a touch of bourbon and stuff them with a buttery, toasted pecan!
10. Football Cookies
These Football Cookies are salty, crispy pretzel sandwiches stuffed with peanut butter cups, dipped in chocolate and decorated with laces makes the perfect sweet treat for football fans.
11. Avalanche Cookies
These no bake Avalanche Cookies are super easy to make and just 5 minutes hands-on time.
Full of creamy peanut butter, sweet white chocolate, and crispy rice cereal, these are everyone’s favorite cookie!
12. Louisiana Stranger Cake
Also called an Inside Out Cake, it’s an easy, extra moist, and unique bundt cake to take to a new neighbor, church pot-luck, or to freeze for a future party.
It comes together with a box of cake mix and a can of frosting!
13. Matzo Crack
Matzo Crack is layers of crispy crackers, buttery toffee, and rich chocolate, and a sprinkling of sea salt. Totally addicting and perfect for Passover or really any time!
14. Chocolate Caramel Brownies
Chocolate Caramel Brownies are gooey, fudgy, and chocolate-y, with a creamy caramel layer in the center! Perfect sweet treat to satisfy your cravings!
15. Chai Blondies
Chai Chocolate Chip Blondies are tender, buttery, and super easy to make! Hinted with chai spice, these will be your new favorite baked treat.
16. Butter Pecan Toffee
Butter Pecan Toffee is crispy, buttery, and studded with toasted pecans. Crispy, buttery, and studded with toasted pecans.
Easy to make, it’s great for giving as an edible gift for friends and family!
17. Cereal Marshmallow Treats
The traditional marshmallow treats get a makeover with different cereals.
These crispy butterscotch pretzel cookies hit all the right flavor notes. Sweet from the butterscotch, salty and crispy from the pretzel nuggets, and a little chewy in the middle from the brown sugar.
The perfect combo for a cookie!
19. Apple Nachos
Caramel Apple Nachos are tart apples drizzled with creamy caramel sauce, mini chocolate chips, and salted toasted pecans are a quick and delicious treat.
Ready in less than 5 minutes, apple nachos are a great snack for kids of all ages!
20. Caramel Apple Bar
Celebrate all the wonders of autumn and make your own DIY Caramel Apple Bar.
It’s an easy and fun dessert forHalloween, Thanksgiving, and any day in between!
Sweet apricot jam, baked with creamy brie, topped with crunchy, salty pistachios all nestled in a crispy, flaky phyllo cup.
22. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars
These peanut butter pretzel bars will hit all your cravings in one bite. Sweet, salty, crunchy, and chewy! Did I mention that they have bacon in them?
23. Chai Latte Dip
Enjoy a morning cup of Joe but in a fun dessert. This Chai Latte Dip is creamy, spicy, with a hint of coffee and will make your afternoons and evenings just as nice as your mornings!
Caramel, chocolate, and salty bugles are not only a delicious snack but they also look like mini cornucopias which are perfect for your Thanksgiving table.
More Fall Dessert Recipes below!
Fall Cookies and Truffles
Bite sized desserts are super fun and cookies are the first thing I usually reach for.
S’mores Cookie Cups Recipe
S’mores are my favorite fall treat! I don’t always love the campfire smell that comes with making s’mores, so these are the next best thing! The graham cracker cookie cup is filled with marshmallow and topped with chocolate. They just might be better than actual s’mores!
I find these truffles get even better and the pumpkin flavor becomes more prominent after a day or two in the refrigerator. Dip in white chocolate or dark chocolate for a fabulous fall treat!
These Nutella Pumpkin Samoa Cookies are so flawlessly Fall-flavored thanks to a pumpkin-spice loaded, pumpkin-puree based, crisp and buttery shortbread cookie on the bottom.
When you are serving more than a few people, a cake or a pie is just what you are looking for! Here are some fall inspired cakes and pies to inspire your next fall party menu.
Pumpkin Dump Cake
If your not into making pies or you just don’t have time to bake a pie, this dessert would be a perfect alternative for your Thanksgiving dessert.
These S’mores Cupcakes are decadent & rich chocolate cupcakes, complete with a graham cracker base, and topped off with light & fluffy marshmallow frosting!
This pie is creamy and delicious, just the way pumpkin pie should be. The maple syrup is the perfect addition to deepen the flavor of the pie and adds a hint of maple flavor.
When a cake or pie is too much and a cookie isn't enough, a brownie is just what you need!
Apple Cinnamon Blondies
These Apple Cinnamon Blondies have sautéed apples and cinnamon chips for the ultimate portable fall treat! This easy recipe comes together quickly and tastes like apple pie.
These Crunchy Pecan Crumble Pumpkin pie bars will tide you over until Thanksgiving when you can have the traditional Pumpkin Pie. Easy to make, they have great texture (creamy and crunchy) and are very satisfying! They make the perfect Fall Dessert!
Salty pretzels, creamy caramel, semi sweet chocolate and a sprinkling of sea salt, that’s right, only four ingredients and this sweet and salty treats can be yours to enjoy!
Brown Butter Pumpkin Bars with Fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting
I have discovered that brown butter takes the average pumpkin bar to a way above average new level. Yep, brown butter. Top it off with a super rich and fluffy cream cheese frosting and you have one super amazing treat!
This Caramel Apple Cream Cheese Spread is a delicious fall treat that you can make in under five minutes. It makes the perfect afternoon snack or quick weeknight dessert!
Bruschetta for dessert! A soft, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread “crostini”, smeared with caramel cream cheese and topped with a nutty caramel apple crown.
These adorable Mini Pumpkin Pecan Cheesecakes make indulgence nearly guilt-free! Tart-sized pumpkin cheesecakes topped with a praline pecan sauce and whipped cream are a seasonal two-bite treat!
My snack of choice? An apple fry pie from the Amish market. The buttery, flaky crust; gooey, caramelized apple interior; and warm spices made up a treat that I obsessed over.
Pumpkin Pie Pots de Creme: fall’s favorite flavor, mixed up in a classic French dessert, and topped with crushed gingersnaps and a Maple Cinnamon Whipped Cream!
S’mores Chocolate Bark is a yummy, amazing inside out s’mores that you don’t even need a camp fire for! Chocolate Bark is my favorite thing to make because it is so easy and the possibilities are endless!
Super rich and ever-so-creamy, this Old Fashioned Maple & Walnut Fudge is the perfect treat for maple syrup season. Made with real Maple Syrup, cream, butter and walnuts, it doesn’t get any better than this!
