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Pumpkin Recipes to try this Fall

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Must-Try Pumpkin Recipes for Fall

The great thing about pumpkin is that it is a very versatile fruit. You can make amazing sweet or savory pumpkin recipes. While it makes the most amazing pumpkin cake or pumpkin bread it can also make a comforting pumpkin soup or curry.

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Pumpkin Recipes to try this 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, and scarf.

I'm looking forward to the occasional rain, warm evening soups and movie nights under the blanket. This is the perfect time to enjoy the seasonal pumpkin.

Did you know that the pumpkin is actually a fruit not a vegetable? Yes, but it has to be cooked. While you can boil or steam it one of my favorite ways to use it is to roast it. Roasting helps bring out its natural flavors and makes it more sweeter.

Two basics for all your pumpkin recipes

At the beginning of fall I do two things. I make a big batch of my homemade pumpkin puree and freeze it so I can use it whenever I need. And I make my homemade pumpkin spice.

Homemade Pumpkin Puree

Making your own homemade pumpkin puree is surprisingly simple and easy. There are many methods to make this puree but my favorite is roasting the pumpkin as it brings out the natural sweetness fo the fruit.
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Learn to make pumpkin puree at home from scratch without any special equipment.

Homemade Pumpkin Spice Mix

What better way to welcome fall than a sprinkle of the fresh homemade pumpkin spice mix over your baked goods and drinks? Did you know that this spice mix needs only five basic spices you probably already have in your pantry?
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Pumpkin lattes are a must in fall

These two are some of the first few things we make at the beginning of fall when the days are still warm for an ice latte but the evenings are cold and begging for a hot latte

Pumpkin Spice Latte

This pumpkin spice latte takes just 5 minutes and a few pantry staples. No more standing in long coffee shop lines. And, best of all, it's delicious made with coffee, milk, pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and honey.
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How to make your own homemade latter with pumpkin spice

Iced Pumpkin Spice Latte

This pumpkin spice latte takes just 5 minutes and a few pantry staples. No more standing in long coffee shop lines. And, best of all, it's delicious made with coffee, milk, pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and honey.
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How to make a iced latte with pumpkin spice and pumpkin puree

Pumpkin recipes - cakes, bundts, loafs.

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.

Pumpkin Spice Latte Cake with Maple Buttercream Frosting

The rich flavor of pumpkin spice latte beverage in a cake makes it a pumpkin spice-latte cake. Combined with a maple buttercream frosting this cake is a perfect fall dessert. Oil-based cake batter makes for a light and airy cake infused with pumpkin spice mix, coffee, and maple syrup. 
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Celebrate the season of fall with pumpkin spice latte cake and maple buttercream frosting.

Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Celebrate this holiday season with this pumpkin spice cake and a delicious no-butter cream cheese frosting that just melts in your mouth. A rich butter-based cake infused with pumpkin puree and pumpkin spice. Perfect to celebrate a festive dinner with family and friends. Top it with fondant pumpkins and make this the center of your next celebration event.
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Celebrate Thanksgiving this fall with a pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting topped with fondant pumpkins

Pumpkin Cream Cake with Whipped Cream Buttercream

This pumpkin cake is a pure luxury made with whipping cream in the batter as well as in the buttercream. A light and airy butter-based cake with brown sugar and pumpkin spice mix. Perfect layer cake to adorn a festive dinner table and impress family and friends.
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How to make a pumpkin layer cake with whipped cream buttercream

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cake Recipe

This pumpkin cake recipe is topped with a beautiful glaze that looks very impressive. A moist, light, and airy cake with pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and loaded with chocolate chips.
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how to make a bundt cake with pumpkin and chocolate chips

Moist Coconut Pumpkin Cake with Coconut Cream Caramel Frosting

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

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

This chocolate chip pumpkin bread is light and airy; it's an oil-based bread made in a loaf pan with pumpkin puree, and pumpkin spice. A simple and easy recipe that takes just 10 minutes to mix and 50 minutes to bake.
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How to make a homemade pumpkin cake with lots of chocolate chips

Pumpkin recipes - 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

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

Easy Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Treat your guest to these delicious pumpkin cupcakes topped with 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.
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Pumpkin Spice Apple Cupcakes with SMBC and 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.
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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.

Pumpkin Donuts

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.

Mini Pumpkin Cake Donuts Recipe

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

Cinnamon Sugar Fried Pumpkin Donuts

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.
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Pumpkin recipes for Soufflé and Creme Brûlée

Who doesn't love a good soufflé and creme brûlée? Bring these to life in fall with a taste of pumpkin and the warmth of pumpkin spice.

Light and Fluffy Pumpkin Souffle Recipe

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. 
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Pumpkin Creme Brûlée Recipe

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

Pumpkin recipes - 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. 
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Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Tarts Recipe

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. 
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These pumpkin pie chocolate tarts make an exotic dessert table in fall or anytime 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. 

Chocolate Pumpkin Caramel Tarts

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.
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Pumpkin Soups

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

Easy pumpkin soup

This has got to be the easiest pumpkin soup to make. It's made with fresh pumpkins, sautéed with onions and garlic. And, a touch of maple syrup gives this soup the warmth of fall.
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Roast Pumpkin Sweet Potato Soup

This roast pumpkin sweet potato soup is the simplest and easiest soup recipe that you can make. Also, roasting the veggies brings out the sweetness of the vegetables and adds to the velvet texture of the soup.
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Homemade healthy soup with roasted veggies of pumpkin and sweet potato with no cream and no butter

Pumpkin Decorating Ideas

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.
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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Veena Azmanov

Veena is the author of three blogs - Veena Azmanov, Cake Decorating Tutorials, and East Indian Recipes.
She writes about cooking, baking, desserts, and cake decorating. Being a professional cake decorator and food blogger for over ten years she has been featured in many online magazines and publications around the world. On her blogs, you will find delicious, easy and practical recipes often with instructional videos and tutorials for the home cook.

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  1. Pam Greer

    What an amazing round up!!! I don't know where to begin, I think with the donuts!

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    • Veena Azmanov

      Thank you. Pam

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  2. Cathleen

    SO EXCITED to start baking with pumpkin. You are making me want to try all of these recipes. So perfect for the fall 🙂

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    • Veena Azmanov

      Thank you, Cathleen. Yes, these are wonderful. You must try some

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  3. Danielle

    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! 🙂

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    • Veena Azmanov

      Thank you Danielle. I do love that pumpkin spice cake very much

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    • Veena Azmanov

      Thank you, Danielle. I do love the Pumpkin Spice Cake with cream cheese frosting very much

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  4. Tisha

    Can't wait to get busy trying these Pumpkin recipes! So great for fall!

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    • Veena Azmanov

      Thanks, Tisha

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  5. Sylvie

    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

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    • Veena Azmanov

      Thanks, Sylvie. I love those mini tartlets very much. So easy to serve when you have guests

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  6. Beth

    Thank you for putting this together!! So many delicious options! Enough to get me though the Fall season!

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    • Veena Azmanov

      Thank you, Beth

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  7. Sapana

    What a wonderful collection of recipes to try - can't wait to use a few this upcoming weekend!

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    • Veena Azmanov

      Thanks, Sapana.

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