Fall is all about warm and cozy flavors like cinnamon, brown sugar, maple, pumpkin, and everything in between! In celebration of this beautiful and colorful time of year, here are 20 fall cake recipes to welcome the season.
Moist Spice Cake
You can't let an autumn pass without making this classic! This spice cake is so unbelievably MOIST and full of toasty spice flavor in every bite. It's super quick and easy to whip up and comes out perfect every time. Topped with a silky smooth cream cheese frosting and some chopped nuts, it's the ULTIMATE warm and cozy cake!
Maple Cake
One of my favorite cakes to make during the fall! This maple cake tastes like a richer and more indulgent pancake. The cake is super moist and spongy and topped with a light and fluffy maple frosting. Using maple syrup in both the cake layers and frosting, this cake packs some serious cozy flavor in every bite!
Apple Crumble Cheesecake
Apple crisp meets cheesecake. This apple crumble cheesecake features 4 delicious layers combining 2 classic desserts: a crispy graham cracker crust, creamy cheesecake filling, tart apple layer, and crumbly oat topping! It's rich and decadent and full of texture and flavor.
Pumpkin Spice Latte Cupcakes
These deliciously moist pumpkin spice latte cupcakes are bursting with autumn flavor! They feature all the classic flavors and ingredients you'd find in a PSL topped off with a pillowy whipped cream frosting.
Mini No Bake Cinnamon Roll Cheesecakes
These mini no bake cinnamon roll cheesecakes are full of cinnamon flavor in every bite! They feature a crispy cinnamon spiced crust, creamy and smooth cheesecake filling, and a cinnamon icing swirled on top. They're the perfect year round treat for whenever you're craving cinnamon rolls!
Cinnamon Roll Gooey Butter Cake
A timeless dessert with a modern twist! This cinnamon roll gooey butter cake is super rich and decadent, and tastes JUST like a gooey cinnamon roll without all of the work! Made without cake mix (100% from scratch!) this recipe features a silky and gooey cinnamon cream cheese topping and an easy to make bottom cake layer - all baked together into silky and rich perfection. This is a slightly smaller batch for more manageable portions!
Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake
This moist chocolate caramel poke cake is a chocolate lover's dream come true! Using the BEST chocolate cake recipe as the starting point, this sheet cake is poked and filled with rich and creamy caramel sauce and topped with caramel swirled buttercream frosting. As the cake sits, the sauce soaks into it - making it even MORE moist and giving it a beautiful caramelly flavor in each bite.
Apple Coffee Cake
This apple coffee cake tastes like apple pie and fall coziness all wrapped up in a delicious package. It has a soft and spongy brown sugar cake bottom that features fresh apple pieces and apple sauce for plenty of flavor. The cake is topped with a layer of sweet cinnamon apples and a final topping of crispy crumble. It's FULL of texture and flavor in every bite!
Chai Spice Maple Cupcakes
Chai spice in maple cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting is a dreamy combination of warm and cozy flavors! The cupcakes are so incredibly moist and spongy and FULL of flavor. They're topped with a silky smooth cinnamon spiced cream cheese frosting that holds its shape well enough to pipe sharp designs on top!
Chocolate Mousse Cake
A dessert that never goes out of season. This rich and decadent chocolate mousse cake is as delicious as it is impressive. The cake is so SO soft and moist (even after sitting in the fridge!) and is adapted from this reader favorite chocolate cake recipe. The mousse is made without raw eggs and without gelatin - but still sets up to a perfectly sliceable and airy texture!
Brown Butter Maple Crumb Cake
The ULTIMATE warm and cozy coffee cake! This brown butter maple crumb cake is full of texture and deliciously toasty flavor. It's rich and buttery and packs the perfect amount of sweetness. The topping is crispy and crumbly while the cake base is dense enough to hold up to the THICK crumb layer while still being so very moist and spongy.
Black Velvet Cake
A little something in honor of Halloween! This is not your ordinary chocolate cake! Black cocoa powder gives this cake and frosting their rich black color and uniquely chocolaty flavor. The cake has the same texture as a classic red velvet cake - fluffy, pillowy, and soft - but with a bolder and richer chocolate flavor.
Pumpkin Cheesecake
This is truly the BEST pumpkin cheesecake recipe! Using my favorite classic cheesecake as the starting point, this recipe uses a FULL can of pumpkin puree in the filling so you don't have to worry about any leftovers. It's creamy, dense, and spiced to perfection.
Apple Fritter Cake
Warm and cozy apple fritter cake is just the dessert for apple season! It has all the flavor of an apple fritter but without all the effort of frying individual donuts. The cinnamon brown sugar cake is SO soft and moist with sweet spiced apples swirled throughout and a thin, sticky glaze to finish it off. It's truly a slice of warm and cozy on your plate!
Caramel Brûlée Latte Cake
The classic warm and cozy holiday drink transformed into a soft and spongy cake! This caramel brûlée latte cake is as delicious as it is beautiful. It's made up of a spongy espresso cake that's soaked in a caramel espresso milk and topped with whipped cream, MORE caramel, and burnt sugar pieces! It's truly a timeless holiday cake and such a unique recipe to make!
Date Syrup Cake
Like a lot of the recipes in this countdown, this flavor is truly timeless - but it's especially cozy on a chilly autumn day! This date syrup cake is almost identical in taste to classic English sticky toffee pudding, but using date syrup instead of whole dates makes for an all around quicker and easier recipe. caramel
Cinnamon Roll Cheesecake
Sweet cinnamon rolls meet creamy cheesecake in this cinnamon roll cheesecake recipe! Using my favorite base cheesecake batter as the starting point, you have 2 layers of plain and cinnamon cheesecake swirled together and baked into decadent perfection. A topping of cream cheese icing and mini cinnamon rolls brings the whole dessert together!
Apple Cider Donut Cake
A rustic style cake inspired by an autumn classic. This Bundt cake looks and tastes like a giant apple cider donut but is SO much easier to make. Whipping up the batter just involves whisking together the wet and dry ingredients and then combining. The cake is then brushed with melted butter and topped with a generous sprinkle of crispy, sparkly cinnamon sugar. It's basically warm and coziness in every bite!
Perfect Pumpkin Cake
This is the BEST, most perfect pumpkin cake!! It has layers of soft and moist spiced pumpkin cake stacked with layers of silky brown butter cream cheese frosting for PLENTY of warm and toasty flavor. To complete the package, it's decorated with the cutest little frosting pumpkins!
Gooey Giant Cinnamon Roll Cake
Whether or not this technically counts as a cake is up for debate, but this is the cake for the person who loves cinnamon rolls! This giant cinnamon roll cake is warm, fluffy, and EXTRA GOOEY. It's like a cozy batch of homemade cinnamon rolls but giant.
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