Fall Dessert Recipes: 24 Delicious Options

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Get cozy and get baking! Homemade desserts with fall ingredients are the perfect final touch to a savory meal — or just a sweet snack whenever you please. Over the past few years on Eatwell 101, we’ve accumulated great recipes featuring all of these gorgeous fall fruits, pomegranate, apples, pears, nuts, persimmons and many more. Here’s a collection of 24 comforting fall desserts from our recipe index. Just click on the link of the recipes you would like to view for the directions.

Fall Dessert Recipes: 24 Delicious Options

1. Quick and Easy Apple Tart

This so-simple apple tart is the perfect pastry recipe to have up your sleeve when you have guests for tea or dinner.
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2. 5-Minute White Chocolate Coconut Truffles

If chocolate truffles are your idea of heaven, these quick and easy-to-make white chocolate truffles will transport you to chocolate nirvana!
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3. Orange & Chocolate Loaf Cake

This orange and chocolate loaf cake is warm and comforting. The citrus tang is so mellow it comes through like warm spices.
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4. Apple Tart with Applesauce & Walnuts

Here’s a nice tart that translates the fall season into our dessert plates. Nothing is simpler than this flavored, crumbly, crunchy and rustic pastry. A little apple sauce, apples, walnuts and voila.
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5. Mini Individual Apple Tarts

With crisp baked apples, cinnamon and toasted almonds, they simply are the perfect bite size snacks for a tea afternoon or a kid friendly dessert.
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6. Lemon Mousse

This light and lemony dessert is a perfect sweet ending after a hearty dinner.
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7. Dessert Cranberry Spiced Poached Pears

The poached pears are infused in a well-blended cranberry juice flavored with star anise, cinnamon and cloves for a bright red, appetizing color.
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8. Orange Pudding Cake

Moist and deliciously citrusy , this orange glazed pound cake will be the highlight of your fall Holiday dinners.
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9. Vanilla Caramel Custard

So delicate, beautiful, and sublime—this creamy egg custard is the perfect dessert to end a good dinner. With only five simple ingredients, this sweet treat favorite is a cinch to make at home!
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10. Almonds & Chocolate Crumble

Crumbles are perfect fall desserts, and this indulgent recipe should hit the spot for your cold nights and holiday dinner parties.
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11. Almond Stuffed Baked Apples

The aroma of these stuffed baked apples definitely speak the language of Autumn and melt the cool right out of you.
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12. Chocolate Pear Tart

Pear and chocolate are two ingredients that blend perfectly. You can use either fresh or poached pears or pears in syrup as well.
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13. Dark Chocolate Mousse with Salted Butter Caramel

Do you have eggs? Do you have chocolate? Just add salted butter and sugar and your can make this chocolate mousse as simple as that! Just give a shot at this easy recipe!
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14. Apple Cupcakes with Biscoff Spread Frosting

These Biscoff cupcakes smell heavenly and taste absolutely incredible. They’re a good everyday snack and pretty enough to serve for a fall brunch or for dessert with coffee.
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15. Orange Sponge Cake

With its texture, both incredibly compact and flexible, sweet, and extremely flavorful, this orange cake will make sensation among the most greedy gourmets around your home.
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16. Quetsch Plums Tartlets

Rustic and simple, this quetsch plum tart is flakey and its tender crust contains a rich and delicious spiced plum mixture, with hints of almond and hazelnut.
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17. Pecan Cupcakes with Maple Syrup

Delicate and with a nutty personality, these little maple pecan cupcakes are dangerously amazing.
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18. Mini Chocolate Banana Cakes

A nice recipe to recycle overripe bananas that you may have forgotten in the pantry!
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19. Butter-Free Chocolate Cake

With a rich, deep chocolatey flavor, it comes moist and fluffy without any added butter.
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20. Lime & Poppy Seed Cake

Just sweet enough, plenty of zing, light, with golden crust, and unbelievably moist, this lime and poppy seed cake is possibly the easiest and quickest thing ever to whip up when kids come back from school.
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21. Hazelnuts and Cocoa Quick Bread

This cake is a true hazelnut lover’s dream: a tender, nutty texture folded into a strong and fragrant cocoa layer.
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22. Baked Apple Shortbread

Perfect for a dessert or a fall brunch—These lovely apple tarts are an enticing combination of a shortbread crust, halved apple, caramel, topped with a cinnamon stick that will slowly release its fragrance.
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23. Persimmon Sauce

Persimmon sauce tastes light and refreshing, it completes many desserts like panacota, cake or ice cream, and can be frozen for future use. Serve chilled with an extra sprinkle of cinnamon.
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