Crisp air, cozy sweaters, and a warm oven—fall is officially here, and that means it’s time to bake!
Fall is the season for slowing down, gathering in the kitchen, and filling your home with the smell of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. There’s something about a batch of cookies that feels extra comforting when the leaves start to turn. Whether you’re craving the nostalgic flavor of pumpkin or want to try something new with apples or cinnamon, these recipes are made to be shared (or just enjoyed with a mug of tea by yourself).
This collection includes a mix of classics with a twist and cozy new favorites. You’ll find soft, frosted cookies like my carrot cake cookies perfect for a bake sale, spiced drop cookies like my brown butter pumpkin cookies that come together quickly on a weeknight, and indulgent stuffed cookies like my chocolate turtle cookies for when you want to go all out. Every recipe highlights those warm fall flavors we look forward to each year—apples, pumpkin, chai spices, and more.
So grab your mixing bowl and preheat the oven—it’s time to celebrate fall the sweetest way possible. These cookies are meant to be baked, shared, and savored all season long.
15+ Fall Cookie Recipes To Try
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Apple Cider Cookies
These soft and chewy Apple Cider Cookies are studded with apples and frosted with a delicious apple cider icing. Spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, this recipe makes the perfect easy fall cookie! Plus, they freeze beautifully so you can have a stash on hand for every craving.
Cookies that taste just like your favorite childhood breakfast treat! Soft brown sugar cookies with a brown sugar cinnamon filling, and topped with a cinnamon glaze.
These churro cookies are my new favorite cookie to make! The recipe starts with a brown sugar sugar cookie, thats filled with a chocolate ganache, and rolled in cinnamon sugar. These cookies taste just like classic churros. They are a perfect treat for for Cinco de Mayo!
Oatmeal cookie meets carrot cake. A big chewy oatmeal cookie loaded with carrots, spices, raisins, and pineapple! Top with cream cheese frosting for the perfect treat!
Your favorite breakfast treat is turned into a cookie that no one is going to be able to resist. Starting with a simple sugar cookie dough, cinnamon sugar gets sprinkled on before the dough is rolled up and sliced. Drizzle with a vanilla icing before serving and watch these cookies disappear.
Traditionally, chocolate turtle cookies are a chocolate thumbprint cookie, rolled in pecans and filled with caramel. I simplified things and put my own twist on the classic by stuffing each soft chocolate cookie with a chocolate caramel candy before baking. Now all this simple decadent cookie needs is a glass of milk to wash it down!
These butterscotch cookies are soft, chewy, and full of butterscotch flavor. They're the perfect treat for any occasion, but they're especially great for a rainy day or a cozy night in.The cookie dough doesn't need to be chilled so you can bake the cookies right away!
These Biscoff cookie butter chocolate chip cookies are thick, soft, and chewy – everything you love in a chocolate chip cookie but with the flavor of cookie butter! Made with white chocolate chips, these cookie butter cookies are irresistible!
Bake a delicious and warm snack with a touch of the holiday season with this recipe. Make molasses cookies with a few ingredients and 20 minutes of prep time.
Snickerdoodles might just seem like a sugar cookie rolled in cinnamon sugar. But a snickerdoodle is so much more than that. Unlike a sugar cookie, a snickerdoodle uses a unique ingredient- cream of tartar. Cream of tartar is what gives snickerdoodle their slight tangy flavor and soft chewy texture, so don’t skip it!
An oatmeal white chocolate cranberry cookie that is quick and easy to make. It uses melted butter so the dough is a cinch to throw together as well. You can make them with just a whisk and a mixing bowl.
These peanut butter oatmeal cookies are chock full of peanut flavor! An easy oatmeal cookie recipe made with peanut butter and peanut butter chips that gets mixed up in about 15 minutes or less, and baked. In 30 minutes or less, these peanut butter oatmeal cookies are ready to be dunked in a glass of milk!
Combine fudgy brownie and chocolate chip cookies in one dessert or snack! Introducing brookies! This delicious dessert is easy to make. If you know how to make brownies and cookies, you can make brookies.
My grandmother always had one cookie stocked at all times in her cupboard. A box of crispy gingersnaps. I decided to create a softer chewier version of those cookies that are simply irresistible. You’re going to want to keep these stocked at all times in your kitchen too.
