My Favorite Fall Baking Recipes

Fall is the best time of year for baking! Here is a collection of my favorite cozy baking recipes for the season.

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Sweet Potato and Rye Coffee Cake

If someone asked my to choose my favorite blog recipe, this just might be it. This cake is soft and moist, a buttermilk cake batter filled with sweet potatoes and warming spices. The cake bakes up into giant, thick squares, topped with a crunchy ginger oat topping and browned butter glaze. If you only make one recipe this season—this should be it.

Banana Muffins with Cinnamon Oat Crumble

Simple banana muffins are a quick and easy way to use up leftover bananas in a way that isn’t banana bread. They are topped with a spiced, cinnamon oat crumble and are best served warm with lots of salted butter.

Coffee and Cardamom Crumb Cake

This is a throwback recipe from the early days of the blog. It is a very classic sour cream coffee cake, with a crumb topping almost as thick as the cake itself. Half of the batter is swirled with strong coffee and cocoa powder and layered in for a pretty two-toned vibe. It’s great to have as breakfast dessert for the week or for sharing with friends.

Buttermilk Spelt Biscuits

A simple, savory biscuit recipe worthy of your Thanksgiving dinner table. It’s a base biscuit recipe that can be fancied up with the addition of herbs or cheeses, but does just as well with a slather of butter or a spoonful of jam. The addition of spelt flour gives a nutty flavor and keeps things interesting. Plus, this recipe includes lots of tips for making great biscuits.

Einkorn Pecan Sticky Buns

My fancy take on my mom’s sticky buns. There is nothing more comforting than a pan of warm sticky buns, straight out of the oven, dripping with gooey caramel. This recipe features a sweet dough made with einkorn flour, a simple cinnamon sugar filling, and a brown sugar caramel glaze studded with pecans.

Chocolate Tahini Brioche Babka

One of my very favorite project bakes! If you are looking for a more in-depth activity for a cold, gloomy weekend at home, this is it. Rich, buttery brioche dough is swirled and shaped with a chocolate tahini filling and you’re left with the prettiest, tastiest, dessert you’ve ever made.

Grapefruit and Ricotta Flan

A fun spin on my mother-in-law’s famous flan. Creamy ricotta cheese and grapefruit (or any citrus zest) create a rich, smooth custard that gets baked with a caramel topping. This is a great make-ahead recipe that is perfect for showing off at dinner parties and potlucks.

Caramel Almond Snack Cake

This cake was inspired by a breakfast cake I had at a coffee shop in Bordeaux so you know it is good. And it is so simple. A yogurt and olive oil cake batter that can be mixed together in one bowl is poured over a caramelized almond topping before baking. Once baked, the whole cake is inverted to reveal a very photogenic, crunchy almond sugar topping.

Fall Apple Cake

Another one of my mom’s recipes that I adapted and tweaked to fit my vibe. This is a THICK cake, filled with so many apples is basically apples bound together with a little bit of cake. It’s frosted with a classic cream cheese frosting and swirled and drizzled with homemade salted caramel to finish.

French Apple Torte

Another apple cake with a very different feel. This is cake is super light, thanks to whipped egg whites, and fresh apple slices are tucked into the batter just before baking. It’s served with a simple, maple tahini cream and the whole thing just embodies fall.