Capture the Best of the Season With These 14 Showstopping Desserts
Desserts deserve the center stage. With these showstopping fall desserts, you can enjoy fall’s bounty on your dinner table. Make sure to add these desserts to your fall celebrations because you can’t go wrong with any of these recipes!
Pecan Upside Down Cake
This exceptional pecan upside down cake is a perfect dessert for Fall or Thanksgiving. It’s an excellent harmony of moist yogurt cake as the base and caramelized pecan topping! The cake can be made in any pan you have, even in a Bundt pan, to turn it into a festive Pecan Upside-down Bundt cake for Thanksgiving!
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Apple Roses with Puff Pastry
If you have been looking for an elegant treat to add to your dessert table, these easy apple roses with puff pastry are just what you have been looking for! Made with fresh apples, cinnamon, sugar, and a light and flaky puff pastry crust, this dessert is not just eye-catching but mouthwateringly delicious. This super simple puff pastry apple rose recipe requires no unique ingredients or equipment.
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Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting
This incredible, moist, easy pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting is the perfect fall cake for the pumpkin season. It’s a fluffy pumpkin loaf infused with aromatic fall spices you love, frosted with an easy, three-ingredient cream cheese icing that is very well-balanced in sweetness. It’s also made without butter!
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Ferrero Rocher Cake
This Ferrero Rocher cake is the ultimate celebration cake with moist chocolate hazelnut sponges, silky Nutella mousseline cream (cooked chocolate pastry cream enriched with Nutella and butter), lots of crunchy hazelnuts, and crushed Ferrero Rocher chocolates. My foolproof recipe perfectly delivers on the Ferrero Rocher candies you love; it is crazy chocolatey, with deep hazelnut notes, crunchy and silky at the same time, rich but not overly sweet.
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Butterscotch Pumpkin Bundt Cake
This butterscotch pumpkin bundt cake recipe features an airy and super moist pumpkin bundt cake loaded with pumpkin and your favorite fall spices. It is topped with the most delicious butterscotch sauce, which has a lovely buttery, brown sugar flavor profile. Easy and quick candied pecans are added for some extra crunchiness. This is the best thing that can happen this pumpkin season!
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No Bake Chocolate Pie
Move over chocolate pudding pie! This no-bake chocolate pie recipe is the ultimate combination of convenience and elegance! Featuring a rich and velvety chocolate ganache filling nestled within a heavenly Oreo cookie crust and crowned with fluffy Chantilly whipped cream, this delightful dessert is a true masterpiece perfect for any occasion and sure to impress any crowd!
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Chocolate Hazelnut Macarons
Chocolate hazelnut macarons are a dream for chocolate and hazelnut lovers. They are in a lovely, bite-sized French macaron format. The macarons are filled with silky chocolate ganache and hazelnut paste, with the most delicious natural nutty flavor. These creamy, crunchy, chewy chocolate hazelnut macarons are the ultimate afternoon tea snack that will impress everyone!
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Apple Pie Cupcakes
This apple pie cupcake recipe is so easy to make that you might just skip making apple pie this Thanksgiving! The apple pie cupcake features a brown sugar cupcake base enhanced with fall spices, apple pie filling, and a delicate whipped mascarpone frosting! These are the ultimate, easy, from-scratch cupcakes with apples to try for Thanksgiving or any time over the fall!
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Chocolate Nutella Cake
This chocolate Nutella cake is a perfect dessert for chocolate and hazelnut lovers! It’s a gorgeous combination of moist chocolate sponge cakes, luxurious Nutella mousseline cream (German buttercream) as filling and frosting, and chopped hazelnut as decoration! This lovely layered cake is sure to impress your guests at any dinner or birthday celebration!
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Pumpkin Brownies
These gooey pumpkin brownies take the season’s best flavors and combine them to create an unforgettable combination! Made with creamy pumpkin puree sandwiched between fudgy brownie layers, they are the perfect fall treat for all ages.
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Apple Pie Choux Au Craquelin
This apple pie choux au craquelin (crispy cream puff) perfectly combines American apple pie and French choux pastry. A showstopper dessert that will be the star of this fall! I love how the crispy choux au craquelin bonds with the creamy homemade apple pie filling while the whipped mascarpone on top balances the flavors.
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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie
Pie season is here, and this easy pumpkin cream cheese pie is a dessert mashup of dreams – rich and smooth pumpkin cheesecake mixed with traditional pumpkin pie. The fall flavors in this foolproof pumpkin pie with cream cheese recipe are so delicious, but the contrasting textures make it an extra special and indulgent Fall or winter dessert.
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Brownie Pie
This fudgy brownie pie is a dream come true for brownie and pie lovers! It has a fudgy, gooey brownie set on top of a buttery, flaky pie crust, providing the best of both worlds. Serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for the perfect after-dinner dessert!
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Apple Pie Cookies
These irresistible apple pie cookies will be the talk of the table this holiday season! Made with fresh apples and a sweet, delicious apple pie filling, they will make you feel like you are eating mini apple pies (without all the hassle)! Their warm, comforting flavor makes them the perfect dessert to sweeten holiday gatherings.
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