18 Must-Try Pumpkin Recipes for Fall

The evenings are getting cooler, the leaves are shedding, the markets are full of pumpkins and apples signaling the arrival of fall. Time to bring out those sweaters, boots, scarf. I’m looking forward to the occasional rain, warm evening soups and move nights under the blanket. This is the perfect time to enjoy the seasonal pumpkin. Here are 18 must-try pumpkin recipes for fall that I have shared with you. From comforting warm soups, cupcakes, muffins, desserts or indulgent cakes.

Learn to make delicious pumpkin recipes to try this fall season with fresh homemade pumpkin puree — 18 MUST-Try Pumpkin Recipes to try this fall

The great thing about pumpkin is how versatile it is. Use it to make a savory or sweet treat. Boiled, baked or roasted the pumpkin never fails to impress when it comes to flavors. I make a big batch of my homemade pumpkin puree so I can use it in every day cooking. A spoonful of pumpkin puree in an alfredo sauce with a dash of pumpkin spice is one of my favorite comfort foods.

Pumpkin Soups

Nothing beats warm homemade soup on a cold fall night. And while I have many hearty, healthy and homemade soups these two made with pumpkin are truly comforting and scrumptious.

Maple Pumpkin Soup with Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

An image optimized for social media share for these simple and easy maple pumpkin soup recipe with a step by step video tutorial. A perfect fall soup that hearty and healthy

Maple and pumpkin make a perfect combination. Try adding maple to your pumpkin soup, butternut squash or even to your roasted pumpkin puree, it really enhances the flavors. This creamy soup makes a perfect meal on its own as it’s so hearty and filling.

Total Time – 15 minutes

Homemade healthy soup with roasted veggies of pumpkin and sweet potato with no cream and no butter

This Roast Pumpkin Sweet Potato Soup is the simplest and easiest soup recipe that you can make. Roasting the veggies brings out the sweetness of the vegetables and adds to the velvet texture of the soup.

Total Time – 1 hour 20 minutes

Pumpkin Cupcakes and Muffins

When pumpkins are in season why not treat your muffins and cupcakes with some pumpkin love? Add a little pumpkin puree to your favorite muffin or cupcake for a wonderful fall-inspired treat.

Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Oat Streusel

These are the best pumpkin spice muffins topped with a buttery oat streusel

Celebrate the pumpkin season with these pumpkin spice muffins topped with a buttery oat streusel. A light and airy oil-based batter with pumpkin puree and warm pumpkin spices make these very addictive. Have it warm with a cup of tea or coffee instead of a coffee cake. This simple, easy and effortless recipe takes 10 minutes to mix and 20 minutes to bake which means last-minute entertaining is a breeze.

Total Time – 30 minutes

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Treat your guest to these delicious pumpkin cupcakes topped with my no-butter cream cheese frosting. A light and airy cupcake with a light and airy frosting that just melts in the mouth. My step-by-step video shows just how simple and easy these are to make. So delicious they can be enjoyed with or without frosting.

Total Time – 30 minutes

Donuts come to life in fall and winter. These comfort food baked or deep-fried rings are an addition. Of course, add a little bit of fall to these and everyone will be asking you the recipe.

Pumpkin Donuts

Mini Pumpkin Cake Donuts Recipe

Make easy mini pumpkin cake donuts with cinnamon sugar and chocolate glaze with this step by step video tutorial

These mini pumpkin cake donuts are bite-size treats that can be very addictive. A simple, easy and effortless recipe that gets done in 20 minutes. Packed with fall flavors of pumpkin and pumpkins spice these are great to give as gifts to family and friends or to make for kids Halloween party.

Total Time – 25 minutes

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Learn to make the perfect fried donuts with my two secret techniques and you will never want to buy store-bought donuts again. These cinnamon sugar pumpkin donuts are always a perfect way to welcome fall. They also make a great treat for Halloween or Thanksgiving. With pumpkin spice in the dough and dusted with cinnamon sugar these fried treats are irresistible.

Total Time – 20 minutes

Pumpkin Souffle and Creme Brulee

Who doesn’t love a good souffle and creme brulee? Bring these to life in fall with a taste of pumpkin and the warmth of pumpkin spice.

Light and Fluffy Pumpkin Souffle Recipe

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If you won’t have a pumpkin pie then you must have a pumpkin souffle this Thanksgivings. A perfect dessert for a small family on a gloomy fall day or cold Christmas day. Nothing beat the light and fluffy yet custardy dessert with all the flavors of fall in a spoon full. Pumpkin, ground ginger and the warmth of pumpkin spice shines thru this dessert wonderfully.

Total Time – 45 minutes

Perfect fall dessert for Thanksgiving Pumpkin Creme Brûlée Recipe with step by step video tutorial

If you don't already love Creme Brulee, you will now with this pumpkin creme brulee. Rich, creamy, decadent and irresistible. Everyone will think you worked so hard to create this dessert, but actually, it's surprisingly easy. There is no better pumpkin dessert for Thanksgiving or Christmas than a pumpkin creme brulee.

Total Time – 35 minutes

Pumpkin spiced cakes

Whether it’s a coffee cake or a layered cake, celebrations in fall become extra special when you add a seasonal element to your desserts.

Moist Coconut Pumpkin Cake with Coconut Cream Caramel Frosting

Make a delicious coconut pumpkin cake with coconut caramel to celebrate the season of all this Thanksgiving.

It’s the flavor of fall all over this moist coconut pumpkin cake drizzles with golden coconut cream caramel. The cake is a light and fully moist batter with the flavor of molasses from the brown sugar then enriched with pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and coconut cream before baking to perfection.

Total Time – 57 minutes

Celebrate the season of fall with pumpkin spice latte cake and maple buttercream frosting.

The rich flavor of pumpkin spice latte beverage in a cake makes it a pumpkin spice-latte cake. Combine with a maple buttercream frosting this cake is a perfect fall dessert you’ve been craving for. Oil-based cake batter makes for a light and airy cake infused with warm spices, coffee, and maple syrup. Rich decadent and perfect for a celebration or festive dessert. Topped with fondant pumpkins this cake is ready to be placed as the centerpiece for your next festive family dinner.

Total Time – 1 hour 5 minutes

Celebrate Thanksgiving this fall with a pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting topped with fondant pumpkins

Celebrate the season of fall with warm pumpkin spice and a delicious cream cheese frosting that just melts in your mouth. This pumpkin spice cake is a rich butter-based cake batter infused with pumpkin puree and warm fall spices. Perfect to celebrate a festive dinner with family and friends. Top with fondant pumpkins and make this the center of your next celebration event.

Total Time – 1 hour 35 minutes

A pumpkin cream cake made with fresh cream in the cake batter as well as whipped cream in the frosting. Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas

This pumpkin cream cake is a pure luxury and a great way to celebrate. Made with fresh cream in the batter which is why we call it cream cake, as well as whipped cream in the buttercream. A decadent cake that’s wonderfully balanced with a rich yet light and airy cake as well as frosting which makes it perfect to enjoy after a big meal such as Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Total Time – 45 minutes

Pumpkin Pies, tarts and tartlets

Pumpkins can truly bring pies, tarts, and tartlets to life this time of the year. Whether you make one a large tart for the family or a few mini tartlets for all your guest I have just the right flavors for you.

Triple Chocolate Pumpkin Tart

Celebrate the season of fall with something different for Thanksgiving with this triple chocolate pumpkin tart. Three layers of chocolate, a whipped white chocolate pumpkin layer in a buttery crust baked to perfection. Whether you bake it from scratch or semi-homemade, this is going to be your favorite dessert this year.

Total Time – 1 hour 10 minutes

These pumpkin pie chocolate tarts make an exotic dessert table in fall or any time of the year. With rich flavors like cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger these are bound to warm you up while you indulge in the heavenly chocolate filling that just melts in the mouth.

Total Time – 6 minutes

If you looking for a tart that's pumpkin inspired but not over loaded with pumpkin try these white chocolate pumpkin caramel tarts. A little bit of pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice combined with caramel and white chocolate blended to make a wonderful filing before being set in a ready to use buttery shortcrust pastry. These mini pumpkin caramel tartlets are perfect bite size make ahead treats to celebrate the festive season.

Total Time – 1 hour 12 minutes

Pumpkin Spice Treats

If you don’t like pumpkin puree in your treats you can try some pumpkin spice treats instead

Homemade Pumpkin Spice Mix

What better way to welcome fall than a sprinkle of the fresh homemade pumpkin spice mix. Did you know that pumpkins spice is as easy as five basic powders you probably already have in your spice cabinet? The next time you need pumpkin spice look in your own cabinet before you look at the supermarket spice rack.

Total Time – 2 minutes

This is comfort food, pumpkin spiced caramel apple dessert perfect for this winter.

Winter is almost upon us and apples are in abundance why not make some spiced up warm caramel apple dessert? Top it with a delicious scoop of vanilla ice cream for that ultimate comfort food. Serve this on a cold weekend or entertain with family and friends. With or without ice cream this dessert is an absolute treat that gets ready in 20 minutes or less.

Total Time – 12 minutes

Perfect for the season these pumpkin spiced apple cupcakes with the warm pumpkin spice, velvet buttercream that melts in your mouth and end with the sweetness of the caramel.

These are the most delicious pumpkin spice apple cupcakes. Made with fresh apples and warm pumpkin spice flavor. These cupcakes will have you craving for more. Frosted with Swiss meringue buttercream and a caramel drizzle makes these cupcakes perfect for the fall season. A surprisingly simple and easy recipe that gets done in no time at all. They are also great on their own, without any frosting.

Total Time – 30 minutes

How to Carve a Pumpkin Cake

How to make a pumpkin cake -perfect gift for a fall inspired cake. Made with Chocolate Cake American buttercream and covered in fondant then airbrushed to perfection.

These pumpkin cupcakes are perfect treats to give as gifts to anyone big or small during the season of fall or Halloween. I've used my Pumpkin spiced apple cupcakes recipe and decorated them to look like pumpkins. They are simple easy and adorable as you can see in the video tutorial.

How to Decorate Pumpkin Cupcakes – 5 different Pumpkins

These pumpkin cupcakes make perfect gifts to anyone big or small during the season of fall or Halloween. I’ve used my pumpkin spiced apple cupcakes recipe and frosted them with delicious vanilla buttercream then decorated them to look like pumpkins. These are surprisingly easy to make with my step by step video tutorial.

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Comments

Pam Greer
October 08, 2019 at 2:14 am
What an amazing round up!!! I don’t know where to begin, I think with the donuts!
- Veena Azmanov
  October 08, 2019 at 11:19 pm
  Thank you. Pam
Cathleen
October 08, 2019 at 1:37 am
SO EXCITED to start baking with pumpkin. You are making me want to try all of these recipes. So perfect for the fall 🙂
- Veena Azmanov
  October 08, 2019 at 11:19 pm
  Thank you, Cathleen. Yes, these are wonderful. You must try some
Danielle
October 05, 2019 at 3:15 pm
It’s that time of the year again, huh? Can’t wait to try ALL of your recipes – they all look great. Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is my favorite so far! 🙂
- Veena Azmanov
  October 06, 2019 at 8:02 am
  Thank you Danielle. I do love that pumpkin spice cake very much
- Veena Azmanov
  October 06, 2019 at 8:02 am
  Thank you, Danielle. I do love the Pumpkin Spice Cake with cream cheese frosting very much
Tisha
October 05, 2019 at 1:53 pm
Can’t wait to get busy trying these Pumpkin recipes! So great for fall!
- Veena Azmanov
  October 06, 2019 at 8:03 am
  Thanks, Tisha
Sylvie
October 05, 2019 at 1:27 pm
So many delicious recipes, I wouldn’t know where to start… well actually, these chocolate pumpkin tartlets are screaming my name, so thats where I’ll start! Thanks for all the delicious ideas
- Veena Azmanov
  October 06, 2019 at 8:04 am
  Thanks, Sylvie. I love those mini tartlets very much. So easy to serve when you have guests
Beth
October 05, 2019 at 8:16 am

Thank you for putting this together!! So many delicious options! Enough to get me though the Fall season!
- Veena Azmanov
  October 06, 2019 at 8:10 am
  Thank you, Beth
Sapana
October 05, 2019 at 8:01 am
What a wonderful collection of recipes to try – can’t wait to use a few this upcoming weekend!
- Veena Azmanov
  October 06, 2019 at 8:10 am
  Thanks, Sapana.

18 Must-Try Pumpkin Recipes for Fall