From easy, apple-filled snacking cakes to spiced snickerdoodles.
by:Anabelle Doliner
August23,2023
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We’re getting ready for fall in the best way we know how: by collecting inspiration for all of our upcoming bakingprojects. Fall is the start of the unofficial baking season—the weather cools down, activities turn indoors, and winter holidays appear on the horizon. It doesn’t hurt that the season is also associated with flavors that are particularly well-suited for baking, whether you lean towards apple, cinnamon, or pumpkin spice. We’ve gathered some of our favorite highly rated and fall-ready baking recipes and divided them into four categories: cakes and quickbreads, crisps, pies, and cookies. Without further ado, here are 52 baking projects we’re excited to tackle this fall.
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Cakes &Quickbreads
If cakes are your go-to baking project, we’ve got tons of ideas and inspiration to get you started. From straightforward quickbreads to elaborately glazed bundt cakes, these recipes rely on classic fall flavors like pumpkin, apple, pear, and ginger. We’ve also thrown in some less traditional options that still work perfectly for the season (we’re looking at you, Olive Oil Cake With Lime & Sumac).
Sweet Potato Cake With Toasted Marshmallow Frosting
Warm Gingerbread Cake With Crème Anglaise
Jessica Koslow’s Carrot-Ginger Black Sesame Bread
Brown Butter and Butternut Loaf
Crisps &Crumbles
Crisps and crumbles are some of the best ways to use up seasonal fruit—and in the fall, that means lots of apples, pears, and cranberries dressed up with details like a salted oat crumble or an impressive hasselback presentation. Or, to keep things simple and quick, try baking your crisps directly on a sheet pan.
Apple Crisp
Sheet-Pan Cranberry Crisp
Black Pepper Pear Crisp with Salted Oat Streusel
Individual Apple Cranberry Crisps
Apple-Beet Crisp With Tangy Vanilla Goat Cheese
Sheet-Pan Apple Crisp
Hasselback Apple Crumble
Pear Crisp with Dried Sour Cherries
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Pies, Tarts &Galettes
There’s no reason to wait until Thanksgiving to make your first pies and tarts of the season, especially if you keep things straightforward with a freeform galette or a press-in tart shell. Flaky, buttery pastry pairs especially well with peak season apples that are sweet, tart, and crisp enough to hold their shape when baked.
Pumpkin Sugar Pie With Cookie Crust from Erin Jeanne McDowell
Crème Brûlée Pie
Easy Apple Galette
Chocolate Mousse Pie With Oreo Crust
Derby (aka Chocolate Pecan Bourbon) Pie
Last-Minute Fall Hand Pies
Vegan Apple Pie
Maple Cream Tart
Dark Chocolate Ganache Tart With Rosemary-Quinoa Crust
Tarte Aux Pommes et Sucre
Artusi’s Butternut Squash Pie (Torta di Zucca Gialla)
Caramel Nut Tart with Chocolate
Vegan Chocolate Pie
Deep-Fried Apple Pies
Maple Chess Pie
Cookies &Bars
Is there a more fall-appropriate cookie than a snickerdoodle? We’ve got three variations on the cinnamon-spiced cookie here, along with seven-layer Magic Cookie Bars (perfect for a school bake sale), pumpkin-infused chocolate chip cookies, and more.
Salted Cookie Butter Millionaire's Shortbread
Soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Magic Cookie Bars
Epic Snickerdoodles From Jessie Sheehan
Chewy Vanilla Spice Cookies with Chocolate Chunks (Vegan, too!)
Snickerdoodle Shortbread
My Ginger Cookies
Ginger-Coconut Macaroons
Bien Cuit’s Masala Pecan Sandies
Soft Batch Pumpkin Spice Cookies
Rose Levy Beranbaum's Molasses Sugar Butter Cookies
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Toasted Coconut – Bring out the nutty, fall flavor of coconut by toasting it. Use it for a deep coconut flavor in scones and cookies, or a sweet and crunchy topping on cakes and cupcakes like these Coconut Cream Cupcakes.
Apple and cinnamon are the best fall flavor combo for sweet treats like apple crisp and applesauce, but cinnamon can also stand on its own. Use cinnamon to spice up your holiday teas, pancakes, or quick breads, or stick with everyone's favorite cinnamon treat: cinnamon rolls.
Coconut is also trending in fall and holiday launches, layered with cold weather staples such as pumpkin, maple, and woods, creating year round demand.
Harvesting of coconuts occurs throughout the year. The time from fruit set to full maturity is about 12 months. The fruit should be harvested fully ripe for copra and dehydrated coconut. Drinking nuts should be picked earlier, at about seven months.
Autumn brings about the warmth of savory vegetable soup, the richness of caramel, and the sweet-tang of apples. It's also a time for the crunch of pecans. Perhaps the very best autumn flavor is the sweet and spicy goodness of pumpkin bread! All of these flavors bring about warm memories, as well.
However, summer isn't the only time to treat yourself to the tropics. When spring rolls around, coconut's fresher notes pair perfectly with fruity, floral and citrus scents. And it's not just for warm weather, either. It may sound weird to think about coconuts in the middle of winter but trust us: it's amazing.
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