25 Fall Cakes To Try
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When the air turns crisp and the leaves start to fall, it’s officially cake season. From pumpkin to apple and every cozy spice in between, these Fall cake recipes are here to make your kitchen smell amazing and your dessert table extra inviting. Whether you’re baking for a cozy weekend treat or planning your Thanksgiving dessert lineup, there’s a cake here for every fall craving.
You’ll find classics like my Pumpkin Layer Cake — packed with warm spices and topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting — and cozy favorites like Apple Crumb Cake, perfect for pairing with your morning coffee. Don’t miss my Apple Cider Cupcakes for a fun twist on fall flavors, or try something rich and indulgent like a caramel layer cake!
This roundup has 25 Fall cake recipes to inspire your next bake — from sheet cakes (like the easiest one bowl apple sheet cake) to single-layer beauties (hello Honey bun cake!), spice-filled loaves (yes carrot cake loaf), and show-stopping holiday desserts (cannoli cake all the way!!) So grab your mixing bowl, turn on the oven, and let’s bake our way through fall, one cozy cake at a time.
25 Fall Cakes To Bake
1
Apple Crumb Cake
This apple crumb cake is bursting with chunks of fresh apple, warm spices, and topped with a buttery brown sugar streusel and icing!
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2
Mississippi Mud Cake
If you’re looking for the ultimate chocolate dessert, this Mississippi Mud Cake is it. This recipe starts with an easy to mix up chocolate layer cake, then topped with mini marshmallows, and a quick chocolate icing poured over the top. The best part? No electric mixer is needed!
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3
Apple Sheet Cake
Easy, one bowl apple sheet cake that's topped with a stovetop caramel icing!
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4
Nutella Cake
A chocolate cake frosted with Nutella buttercream frosting and topped with a Nutella ganache.
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5
Turtle Cheesecake
This creamy turtle cheesecake recipe is the perfect dessert to make for the holidays! A creamy cheesecake filling swirled and topped with chocolate ganache and caramel sauce. Toasted, chopped pecans are sprinkled on top after baking so it's just like biting into a homemade turtle candy.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Sheet Cake
An easy chocolate sheet cake topped with peanut butter cream cheese frosting.
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8
Pistachio Cake
This pistachio cake recipe is fluffy, moist and made in a sheet pan. Topped with a cream cheese frosting, it’s quick and easy to decorate.
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9
Butter Cake
This delicious butter cake is quick to mix up and made in a square pan for ease. Made with sour cream and butter for a wonderfully moist simple cake that is the for last minute guests.
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10
Caramel Apple Upside-Down Cake
This Caramel Apple Upside-Down Cake is soft, buttery, and perfectly spiced with a gooey layer of tender cinnamon apples baked right into the top.
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11
Cannoli Cake
This cannoli cake is made with a tender, fluffy cake with mini chocolate chips! And then frosted with a mascarpone ricotta frosting that tastes just like a cannoli filling.
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12
Honey Bun Cake
If you love honey buns, then you are going to love this delicious honey bun cake! A homemade yellow cake made with a brown sugar cinnamon filling. After it's baked, the cake is topped with a sweet glaze made of vanilla and honey!
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13
Caramel Cake
This is the best caramel cake recipe made with a moist yellow cake, and topped with a homemade caramel icing. If you're looking for an old fashioned caramel cake, look no further!
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14
Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe
This old fashioned sour cream pound cake is wonderfully buttery, with a crunchy exterior, and tender crumb on the inside! I love serving this pound cake with some fresh berries and whipped cream. You can bake this pound cake in a bundt pan or loaf pans for an easy impressive dessert everyone will love.
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15
Carrot Sheet Cake
Easy carrot sheet cake that is perfect for Easter or all year round!
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16
Irish Apple Cake With Custard Sauce
Celebrate St. Patrick's day with Irish apple cake with custard sauce! Baked in a square pan, this simple apple cake gets drizzled with a vanilla custard sauce before serving.
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17
Carrot Cake Loaf
This carrot raisin loaf is like a carrot cake in bread form. It’s a moist bread with a tender crumb, and lots of warm spices, like cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. Normally this might be called a dessert, but since it’s a quick bread you can enjoy it as breakfast without any judgment!
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18
Tornado cake
This cake is the easiest cake ever! Tornado cake, also called the do nothing cake but it's simple measure and stir it all together. The coconut pecan topping gets made on the stovetop and poured over the top.
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19
Apple Dapple Cake
This old fashioned Apple Dapple Cake is a must-try fall dessert! It’s an easy bundt cake studded with apples and pecans, baked until golden, then drizzled with a delicious brown sugar sauce to make it extra moist. Every bite is bursting with apples, pecans, and amazing caramel flavors! *Adapted from Bake From Scratch Magazine
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20
Pumpkin Coffee Cake
This pumpkin coffee cake recipe is made with lots of warm spices, pumpkin puree for maximum pumpkin flavor! Topped with a cinnamon brown sugar streusel topping, and an easy vanilla glaze. This pumpkin spice coffee cake is the perfect dessert for the Fall and holiday season! And this cake is egg free too! No electric mixer is needed for this recipe!
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21
Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake
This pumpkin spice bundt cake is an easy dessert to mix up for the Fall. Made with sour cream to make it moist, pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice for flavor, and topped with an easy cream cheese glaze after it’s baked. This easy pumpkin bundt cake recipe takes about 15 minutes to prepare, and requires no mixer!
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22
Pumpkin cupcakes
These pumpkin cupcakes are wonderfully moist and tender and SO easy Mix up. I’m using oil in the recipe which will not only keep these moist but it also means we don’t need a mixer to make these so they come together easily. I’m frosting these with an easy cream cheese frosting.
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23
Pumpkin Layer Cake
A spiced pumpkin cake with a funfetti vanilla buttercream
24
Apple Cider Cupcakes
These easy cupcakes are made with apple cider, warm spices, and then topped with an apple cider buttercream, and pie crumbs!
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25
Salted Caramel Apple Cupcakes
A caramel apple cupcake filled with a chunks of cinnamon apples topped with a salted caramel buttercream frosting and drizzled with more salted caramel sauce
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