85 Festive Fall Treats & Desserts to Satisfy Your Autumn Cravings
Cute Fall treats to make! These delicious and fun fall themed snacks and desserts are perfect for autumn gatherings, Fall festivals and bake sales, school parties, or anytime you need a festive pick-me-up!
As the leaves change and the temperatures drop, we all start craving Fall treats.
The flavors of apple, pumpkin, cinnamon, and maple are just what we need to make the transition from summer to autumn.
Autumn treats hit the spot for an afternoon snack, Fall potluck idea, or fun dessert.
I put together a list of the best Fall treats, so you have tons of inspiration for how to celebrate autumn with your taste buds.
They make the perfect sweet touch after a cozy comfort food dinner, hearty autumn crockpot meal, or satisfying Fall chicken recipe.
These Fall treats include ideas for:
- Cute, bite-sized snacks
- Autumn cookies
- Muffins
- Apple, pumpkin, cinnamon, and maple recipes
- Kid-friendly confections
- Pastries and bars
- No-bake desserts
- Donuts
And so much more …
Okay, let’s check out these festive autumn treat recipes!
(For more easy autumn entertaining ideas, you’ll also want to check out these Fall charcuterie boards and Fall dump cakes!)
Fun Fall Treats
Maple Cookies
These maple cookies have it all - chewy cookie centers, buttery pecans, and perfectly balanced maple sweetness!
Baked to golden perfection and topped with an irresistible maple glaze, these cookies offer a cozy taste of fall.
Acorn Treats
Hershey's Kisses Acorns are adorable bite-sized snacks that make fun seasonal crafts for kids.
Easy to assemble in minutes, these sweet treats are perfect for any fall-themed party or gathering.
Pumpkin Bars With Cream Cheese Frosting
Soft and perfectly spiced Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting are literally the easiest bars that I have ever made!
Best of all, they’re made in one bowl and and ready in under 30 minutes.
Apple Cider Donuts
With a deep apple flavor, these autumn classic Apple Cider Donuts are an absolute winner.
Made with scratch-made apple butter, condensed apple cider and just the right amount of cinnamon.
Fall Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These autumn sour cream sugar cookies are the perfect comfort food! Dye the cream cheese frosting in fall colors, and cut into leaves and other autumn shapes.
It’s a great fall activity for kids to do when it’s too cool to be outside.
Maple Snickerdoodles
These Maple Snickerdoodles have the great cinnamon flavor that everyone loves, with the yummy added bonus of maple syrup.
Take a beloved, classic cookie and kick it up a notch with this autumn twist on snickerdoodles.
Pumpkin Patch Pudding Cups
So fun and festive for kids of all ages, these adorable Pumpkin Patch Pudding Cups would be fun to make before or after visiting an actual pumpkin patch, or basically anytime during the Fall season.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
These pumpkin cheesecake bars are layers of graham cracker crust, vanilla cheesecake and pumpkin cheesecake, all baked together to create an impressive dessert.
Acorn Donut Holes (No Bake)
This last minute autumn finger food treat is so quick and easy to make with just 4 store bought ingredients you can find at any grocery store. The end result is so adorable!
Pumpkin Spice Magic Layer Bars
Magic Pumpkin Bars is an easy yellow cake mix recipe with a gooey pumpkin sweetened condensed milk center, topped with pecans, cranberries, white and dark chocolate chips, and coconut.
Caramel Apple "Nachos"
Looking for a quick and easy snack that satisfies your sweet tooth while still being somewhat healthy?
Look no further than these caramel apple bites! They’re customizable for your favorite candy and toppings.
Candy Corn Cupcakes
Transform boxed cake mix into super moist candy corn-themed cupcakes with lovely ombre swirl frosting.
They’re light, fluffy, and easy, with just the right amount of sweet.
Pumpkin Cake Balls
My Pumpkin Cake Balls are cute little balls of Pumpkin Spice Cake mixed with Cream Cheese Frosting and dipped in chocolate.
Best of all, it’s a no bake recipe ready in under 30 minutes.
Pumpkin Donuts
Pumpkin donuts are incredibly moist, have plenty of pumpkin flavor and are rolled in a delicious cinnamon sugar mixture.
These homemade donuts can be prepped ahead of time and refrigerated overnight.
Pumpkin Fudge
Make this pumpkin fudge recipe for an amazing fall treat that everyone will love!
This dessert recipe consists of pumpkin pie spice combined with a touch of peanut butter for an addicting treat.
Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies
The perfect soft chewy spiced pumpkin oatmeal cookies with sweet white chocolate chips.
This is such a simple recipe because the dough is made in one saucepan. You don’t even need to bring out the hand mixer or KitchenAid.
Canadian Butter Tarts
Canadian butter tarts are a national obsession: that perfectly flaky shell, that sweet, buttery, caramel filling, and all that melt-in-your-mouth goodness
Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies with Browned Butter Icing
Chewy, tender and filled with pumpkin flavor, these brown butter-iced pumpkin oatmeal cookies are going to be a new family favorite!
Fall Snack Mix
This Fall Snack Mix will disappear at your Fall, Halloween Party, or at your Thanksgiving feast. It has just 4 ingredients that are magical together.
Cinnamon Cupcakes Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting
These easy cinnamon cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are moist and delicious, and dusted with a perfect cinnamon sugar topping.
They're definitely an upgrade to a traditional vanilla cupcake and a MUST for cinnamon lovers!
Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
Pumpkin snickerdoodles are soft, chewy, delicious cookies, full of flavors and perfect for any time. Take a bite and be transported to fall.
Apple Hand Pies
Apple Hand Pies are made with apple pie filling, homemade pie crust or refrigerated biscuit dough.
Apple pie is one of the most iconic all-American desserts and these hand pies are the hand-held version.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
These easy Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins are the perfect fall treat. With yummy pumpkin spice and cream cheese mixed right in, they bake in less than 20 minutes.
Maple Leaf Cookies
Maple Leaf Cookies are like a direct flight to Canada. Bursting with unique maple flavor, these iconic Canadian Maple Cream Cookies are gorgeous with their leaf shape, appealing, and addictive.
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
This Pumpkin Cupcake Recipe is perfectly spiced and made with fresh Pumpkin Puree.
Topped with creamy yet fluffy and oh so easy cream cheese frosting, this Recipe for pumpkin cupcakes is a great way to celebrate all the yum flavors of fall.
Cinnamon Brown Sugar Cookies with Salted Buttercream
These cinnamon brown sugar cookies with buttercream frosting will give you all the fall feels. Using brown sugar in a cut out cookie gives you a fun, crispier cookie.
No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
These no-bake pumpkin cheesecake bars are the perfect dessert to honor fall, with the warm flavors we all know and love from a biscoff cookie crust, and classic pumpkin spice.
Cinnamon Roll Donuts
Cinnamon Roll Donuts are baked with a cinnamon-sugar topping and finished with a vanilla glaze. They taste just like cinnamon rolls and they have such a soft, moist texture.
Brown Butter Apple Blondies
These brown butter apple blondies are buttery and soft, bursting with apples, and drizzled with a brown butter glaze.
Rich caramel flavor, and with a hint of cinnamon, these easy blondies will be your new go-to treat.
Pumpkin Oreo Balls
Pumpkin Oreo Balls are an irresistible fall treat. They are super cute and delicious, and kids love helping make them.
Soft Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These easy-to-make, spiced-to-perfection, soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting pumpkins are about to be your new favorite fall cookie!
Easy Candied Pecans
These are sweet, but not TOO sweet, and just crunchy enough. You can honestly snack on these as a fun little treat, or they work great as a topping on salads for a delicious sweet crunch!
Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies
A perfectly spiced pumpkin cookie topped with a thick layer of cheesecake frosting, these Pumpkin Cheesecake cookies will have you ready for fall and all the deliciousness it has to offer!
Sour Cream Apple Squares
These Sour Cream Apple Square bars are filled with apples, a hint of cinnamon and have an amazing shortbread crust.
Slice these moist apple squares warm or at room temperature into oversized squares and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies are made by sandwiching together two cakes to form kind-of a cookie. Whether you think of them as cakes, cookies or pies, they’re a real Fall treat.
Cheesecake Stuffed Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Cookies
Indulge in the irresistible combination of warm Fall flavors with our Cheesecake Stuffed Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Cookies!
They are made with yellow box cake mix and cooked to perfection in the air fryer.
Pumpkin Bread With Cinnamon Sugar Topping
You probably have all the ingredients for this Pumpkin Bread already in your pantry, and it doesn’t take long to throw together.
Best of all, it makes 2 loaves, so you can stick one in the freezer, or give it to a friend.
S'mores Cookie Bars
With all the flavors of s’mores over a Fall campfire, these cookie bars have the perfect balance of chewy and crunchy.
The gooey marshmallow fluff helps hold together two layers of chocolate chip cookie dough and a layer of crunchy graham crackers.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft, thick and perfectly chewy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe, filled with loads of Pumpkin Flavor and fall spices!
Blot your pumpkin puree, prepare the dough, quickly chill for 10 minutes in the freezer and bake! Yes, these cookies are ready in under 30 minutes from start to finish!
Fall Puppy Chow with Brownie Mix
This fall puppy chow recipe that’s full of chocolate goodness, pumpkin candies, chocolate covered Chex mix, Reese’s, candy, and pretzels. Ideal for Fall or Halloween snacking.
Pumpkin S'mores Cookies
If you want to try something different, you can’t go wrong with pumpkin s’mores cookies.
They’re soft, sweet and the combo of pumpkin and s’mores flavors is a magical one!
Mini Caramel Apple Cheesecakes with Streusel Topping
Serve up these mini caramel apple cheesecakes with streusel topping and lap up the praise!
They look so cute, and everyone is going to love these tasty cheesecake bites - the perfect autumn treat.
Salted Caramel Marshmallow Acorns
These fun Salted Caramel Marshmallow Acorns are an autumn dessert anyone can make!
Perfect for teaching kids to cook, assembling these yummy treats is a fun activity for the whole family.
Cinnamon Pumpkin Twists
Trying to make a quick pumpkin dessert? Well, these cinnamon twists are a delicious, easy, and quick pumpkin dessert that will be your next new staple every fall season.
Caramel Apple Cookies
Caramel Apple Cookies are soft, chewy cookies with brown sugar, buttery caramel, and sweet-tart apple. All of the delicious flavors of caramel apples, in cookie form.
Copycat Starbucks Pumpkin Scones
Starbucks Pumpkin Scones are delicious but kind of pricey, so now you can make your own right at home! The glaze really takes these over the top.
Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
These Pumpkin Sugar Cookies are sweet, super soft and chewy eggless sugar cookies with a mild pumpkin flavor throughout.
Topped with a maple glaze drizzle, they’re also gluten free, nut free, easily vegan and only require 30 minutes of chilling.
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Autumn is the perfect season for Apple Cinnamon Muffins! This recipe uses both applesauce and fresh apples.
These muffins are incredibly easy to make in just a few simple steps.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Blondies
These pumpkin chocolate chip blondies are thick, moist, and fudgy.
Full that warm spiced pumpkin flavor and studded with chocolate chips, they only need one bowl and are ready in just 35 minutes.
Homemade Caramel Corn
This easy, homemade Caramel Corn is a must-make recipe every Fall and Halloween season.
It’s crunchy, sweet and completely irresistible - perfect for a cozy movie night!
Soft Apple Cookies
If you love fall desserts, you will love these sweet delicious Apple Cookies. These cakey cookies are loaded with bits of soft apples and flavored with warm autumn spices.
A drizzle of apple flavored icing adds the perfect touch of sweetness to each bite.
Pumpkin Empanadas
These easy pumpkin empanadas are a twist on the classic Mexican dessert, and are made with pizza dough (instead of empanada dough) and a creamy pumpkin filling.
Candy Corn Jello
This easy autumn recipe is inspired by a seasonal favorite-candy corn, and uses simple ingredients to create something perfect for Halloween parties, a special dessert or classroom treats.
Pumpkin Caramel Cookies With Toffee
These Pumpkin Caramel Cookies with Toffee are the perfect cookies this fall season! With a creamy pumpkin flavor and sweet bits of goodness, they’re sure to be a huge hit.
Toffee with Pecans and Pumpkin Spice
This easy toffee gets an autumn twist with pecans and a hint of pumpkin spice. It’s perfect for fall gift giving or just to nibble as a special treat.
Caramel Apple Pops
Caramel Apple Pop bites are so much more manageable than full-sized apples. Plus, you combine both chocolate + caramel for the perfect combo with your tart apples.
Maple Pecan Pie Puffs
If you love pecan pie this time of year, you’ll go wild for these Maple Pecan Pie Puffs.
They're the easiest way to serve up that amazing pecan pie flavor without the hassle of a pie crust.
Apple Coffee Cake Muffins
These Apple Coffee Cake Muffins are spiked with cinnamon, nutmeg and chunks of fresh, sweet apple.
The streusel topping and simple glaze make these fall-inspired muffins a truly delicious treat.
Pumpkin White Chocolate Smores
A twist on the original smore, Pumpkin White Chocolate S'mores just scream Fall, and can be made outdoors over a campfire, or indoors in a microwave.
Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy, with the warm spice of cinnamon throughout.
White chocolate chips add a pleasant vanilla taste and beautiful pop of color. Perfect for dipping in a glass of milk!
Churro Cheesecake Bars
Churro Cheesecake Bars combine two favorites into one ridiculously easy dessert!
If you love cinnamon-dusted churros and creamy cheesecake, you’ll flip for these simple, crowd-pleasing dessert bars.
Stuffed Cheesecake Waffle Cones
Cheesecake Waffle Cones are stuffed with a creamy no-bake filling are made with a crispy, homemade chocolate waffle cone, lined with a layer of melted chocolate and crushed oreos.
Filled to the brim with a creamy peanut cup and butterfinger cheesecake filling and crowned with even more yummy toppings, it's pure decadence.
Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies with Cinnamon Buttercream
Tis the season for pumpkin spice sugar cookie recipes!
Both the cookie and the buttercream frosting in this recipe have real, canned pumpkin, which gives it just the right amount of festive flavor.
Apple Cinnamon Scones
Filled with fresh chopped apples, and layers of cinnamon streusel, these fall-forward Apple Cinnamon Scones. Best of all, these scones come together in a snap, no mixer needed!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins are soft and moist inside but with a wonderful crackly crust.
They are easy to make, freeze wonderfully, and you can use other add-ins, such as walnuts or pecans.
Pumpkin Pie in a Cup
Pumpkin Pie in a Cup is an easy recipe for no-bake pumpkin pie in an adorable mason jar or cup.
It's a fun way to give everyone their very own pumpkin pie and great recipe for the holidays!
Hot Chocolate Cookies
Hot Chocolate Cookies with Marshmallows are the ultimate cold weather cookie.
Crisp on the outside, soft on the inside, and filled with the cozy flavors of your favorite cup of cocoa!
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Chocolate Bars
This recipe makes a small batch of one of my favorite pumpkin bar recipes.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Chocolate Bars start with a layer of pumpkin sheet cake with the perfect amount of pumpkin spice flavor.
Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
These Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies are the perfect combination of chewy, sweet, and tangy for a hearty cookie with lots of flavor and texture to love.
Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins
If you’re a pumpkin lover, you need to try these chocolate pumpkin muffins!
The chocolate chips pair perfectly with the pumpkin flavor, and really take it over the top.
Pumpkin Spice Latte Popcorn
Enjoy your favorite fall beverage in snack form with this pumpkin spice latte popcorn snack mix.
Pecan Pumpkin Bars with Crumble Topping
Pumpkin pie in bar form! These bars have a pumpkin pie like filling, with a layer of pecans, between a crust and crumble topping.
S'mores Rice Krispie Treats
If you like s’mores, these Rice Krispie Treats are a must try. Get all the flavors of an autumn bonfire in an easy, make ahead treat
Pumpkin and Orange Doughnuts
These pumpkin and orange doughnuts, based on an Italian recipe, are bite-sized puffs of deliciousness. They’re perfect with tea, coffee or as an afternoon snack.
Pumpkin Spice Rice Krispie Treats
Crisp, soft, and chewy, these easy gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free Rice Krispie treats are perfect for fall or Halloween.
No marshmallows needed, nut-free, loaded with real pumpkin, and topped with a dairy-free white chocolate drizzle.
Apple Turnovers
This apple turnover recipe is so easy to make in your own kitchen! Only a few steps and you can enjoy hot apple turnovers whenever you like.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies
Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies are a fall upgrade to your favorite fudgy dessert.
A from-scratch treat combining a rich, chocolate brownie and creamy pumpkin cheesecake will satisfy all your seasonal cravings.
Easy Homemade Apple Fritters
These Easy Homemade Apple Fritters are packed full of fresh apples, easy to make with simple ingredients, and can be ready in just 30 minutes,
Tangerine Pumpkins
These adorable little pumpkins are made from tangerines and celery sticks.
They're not only cute, but they're also super easy to make and a healthier alternative to some of the sugary treats you might find this time of year.
Cinnamon Walnut Apple Bars
Cinnamon Walnut Apple Bars are a quick and easy, spiced fall apple dessert with a nutty spiced oatmeal streusel topping and simple glaze that’s irresistible.
Buttery, nutty and lightly sweet, they make a perfect afternoon pick me up.
Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream with Maple Syrup
This creamy pumpkin pie ice cream is made with real pumpkin, cream cheese, brown sugar, maple syrup, and pumpkin spice for a delicious, unique fall dessert.
Cinnamon Roll Muffins
Craving a cinnamon roll without all the work? Cue these cinnamon roll muffins!
Everything you love about a cinnamon roll is packed into these fluffy, tender muffins that are ready in under one hour.
Easy Maple Pumpkin Turnovers
These amazing maple pumpkin turnovers are a wonderful breakfast treat your entire family will enjoy.
Perfect for an on-the-go breakfast, packed in a lunchbox, or as a fabulous dessert, these pumpkin turnovers are a sweet and tasty delight.
Caramel Apple Cider Floats
It’s never too cold for ice cream, especially if it comes in the form of Apple Cider Floats!
With apple cider, fizzy ginger ale, and salty caramel sauce, these cider floats are the perfect excuse to eat ice cream in any season.
DIY Sliced Caramel Apple Bar
Learn how to make a DIY sliced caramel apple bar!
Served with all sorts of fun toppings, this make-your-own caramel apple bar is the perfect dessert station for Halloween or a Fall party!
Ready to make some fun Fall treats?
I hope this list of festive autumn desserts and treats has given you lots of fun ideas for snacks and sweets to make this season.
These recipes will really help you celebrate and enjoy Fall all the more!
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