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Fall: the season of warm flavors, delicious baked goods and cozy dinner parties with friends.
I love this season for so many reasons, but one the best things about it are all the delicious apple recipes to make. Any type of dessert with warm cinnamon apples is always a great treat to make for a dinner party with friends, because everyone will love them. Plus, if you’re someone who doesn’t like pumpkin-flavored treats, then cinnamon apples will become your ultimate autumn flavor profile.
If you’re looking for fall apple desserts to make for your next dinner party, girls night with friends, of just as a treat on a cozy fall day, we’ve got you covered.
Keep scrolling to find the season’s favorite apple recipes that are perfect for any occasion.
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24 Best Fall Apple Desserts for Any Occasion
1. Apple Crumb Cookies
How delicious do these apple crumb cookies look? Pretty much anything with crumble on top, we know we will immediately love. Plus the delicious apple filling in these cookies makes them seem like apple pie cookie bites.
2. Cinnamon Apple Crisp
Fruit crisp is delicious all year round, but one of our favorite times of year to make it is in the fall with delicious, fresh apples. It’s such a simple way to use ingredients you msot-likely already have in your pantry to create a yummy dessert.
3. Apple Fritter Cake
Searching for a spiced apple cake for a brunch or fall party dessert? Try this apple fritter cake!
4. Maple Glazed Apple Crisp Cookies
All of our favorite fall flavor combinations combine to create a magnificent cookie. These flavors include: cinnamon apples and maple. Our mouths are watering just thinking about how delicious these would be.
5. Maple Bourbon Apple Fritters
There’s nothing quite like a homemade apple fritter, and our homemade maple bourbon apple fritters are so delicious. They are the perfect breakfast treat for a cozy fall morning inside.
6. Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake
Carmel apples are one of those treats you only have once a year, but always look forward to it when you actually have a chance to make and eat one. Now, you can combine your love for the sweet treat and cake by making this beautiful caramel apple upside down cake.
7. Apple Cider Donut Bread
You had us at apple cider donut! It’s one of fall’s iconic flavors and treats, so creating a bread with the flavors of the donut are genius (and irresistible).
8. Mulled Apple Cider Chai French Crullers
Crullers have always seemed like such a fancy breakfast treat, but this recipe makes it seem super simple. We can just imagine how wonderful the mulled apple cider flavor is in these traditional German-American treat.
9. Caramel Apple Cider Cookies
You know those days when you’re craving a decadent cookie that’s sweet with a slight hint of salt? If you’re having one of those days today, you’re going to have to try these caramel apple cider cookies.
10. Brown Butter Apple Blondies
Blodies are what we refer to as the cousin of a brownie. It’s a caramel-y, vanilla dessert bar that can take on many different flavors. For the fall, we love the idea of making these brown butter apple blondies. They are great for making for a football game day or fall movie night with your friends.
11. Apple Cider Cupcakes
Calling all cupcake lovers! This one is for you!
These insanely decadent cupcakes will be your new fall addiction. It’s an apple cider cake, rolled in cinnamon suger and topped with a gorgeous whip of apple cider frosting and caramel drizzle. YUM!
12. Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal Cream Pies
One thing about us is that we LOVE an oatmeal cream pie. It doesn’t matter if it’s homemade or a Little Debbie treat, we can’t resist.
When we saw these cinnamon apple oatmeal cream pies, we immediately needed to make them. They are made of two oatmeal cookies filled with a layer of cream cheese filling and apple butter.
13. Baked Apples with Oats
Wanting to make a healthier dessert with apples? Try these baked apples with oats.
They’re a warm, baked apples filled with spiced, sweet oats and topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
14. Salted Apple Maple Munchkins
Make your fall morning a little bit sweeter with these salted apple maple munchkins. They are like the homemade version of a Dunkle Donuts classic.
15. Caramel Apple Dessert Bars
Caramel apples are always a fall favorite! But let’s be honest, they can also become quite a sticky mess to eat. So, we have reimagined the caramel apple and turned it into a dessert bar. Less mess, but with all the same flavors.
Each caramel apple shortbread bar has a shortbread crust, tart granny smith apple filling, spiced crumble topping and topped with a caramel drizzle. This the perfect dessert for apple season.
16. Apple Pie Stuffed Cinnamon Rolls
You can never go wrong with a massive, stuffed cinnamon roll and these apple pie stuffed cinnamon rolls are no different. They are quite literally the definition of fall. Plus, who says you can’t eat pie for breakfast?
17. Apple Cinnamon Babka
While there’s nothing quite like a classic chocolate babka, this apple cinnamon babka is a great recipe to try out this fall. Filled with swirled layers of apple cinnamon pilling, this babka bread will be a crowd favorite.
18. Cinnamon Apple Sheet Pan Nachos
Apple pie meets nachos! This sweet twist on sheet pan nachos starts with crispy cinnamon sugar pita chips, gets loaded with caramelized honeycrisp apples, and is finished off with dollops of creamy whipped cream cheese dip. If you’re a fan of apple pie and vanilla ice cream, you are going to love this sweet treat.
The best part? You can throw them together and in the oven in under 30 minutes. Way less prep and time than an apple pie!
19. Cinnamon Apple Cream Cheese Kolaches
These apple kolaches do take a little more time and effort than your average breakfast, but trust us, you’re going to be obsessed with the result! Each kolache is made with a pillowy, soft homemade kolache dough, filled with tangy cream cheese and warm spiced apples before it’s finished with a buttery, cinnamon crumble and a drizzle of glaze.
The contrast of the tart cream cheese and sweet, spiced apple filling makes them taste so good. Each bite of this fluffy dough is full of fall spices, tangy cream cheese, and a little crunch from the crumble.
20. Apple Pie Cheesecake Bites
Bite-size treats are so fun to serve for a fall dinner party, game day gathering or thanksgiving holiday.
An easy and delicious bite-size treat to make are these apple pie cheesecake bites. They are the perfect combination of apple pie flavor in a scrumptious mini cheesecake.
21. Cinnamon Sugar Apple Butter Pie
Swap your traditional apple pie this Thanksgiving with this gorgeous apple butter pie. Made with a butter crust, and apple butter filling and topped with a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar and leaf-shaped pie crust pieces.
22. Easy Apple Pie Bars
These apple pie bars are like the cool younger sister of the apple pie! They’re everything you love about a classic homemade apple pie – the cozy cinnamon-spiced charm, buttery crust – but they’re more laid back and fussier to make.
Each bar starts with a buttery cookie crust that tastes like the perfect cross between a flaky pie crust and a soft sugar cookie. These bars are layered with tart apples that sliced and spiced and cooked down to create a delicious apple pie filling. It’s finished with a lattice cookie topping for those classic apple pie vibes.
23. Apple Cider Caramel Rolls
Apple cider caramel rolls? YES PLEASE! We immediately added these to our fall baking bucket list this year. We may even make these for our family for Thanksgiving morning.
24. Halloween Monster Caramel Apples Coated in Chocolate
Whether you’re hosting a halloween party, a scary movie night or just wanting to get in the Halloween spirit, these monster caramel apples bring instant nostalgia for childhood halloween parties.
This cranberry apple pecan cake is a great dessert to make for a fall dinner party or to gift a neighbor sometime this season. It’s a moist, cinnamon cake filled with apples, cranberries and crunchy pecans.
