Fall isn’t only for pies! These 30+ fall cake concepts function all of your favourite flavors of the season—from pumpkin cake and glazed apple Bundt cake to snickerdoodle cake and simple spice cake. Whether or not you favor easy one-layer desserts or like to go all out with layered masterpieces, this listing options scrumptious fall cake recipes for bakers of all ability ranges.
Favourite Fall Cake Recipe Concepts
The autumn season is right here, and for many people meaning: deliver on the baking! Whereas I really like this time of 12 months for baking limitless Thanksgiving pies (I’ve a Sally’s Pie Week celebration yearly!), fall baking has a lot extra to supply past the pie dish.
Under you’ll discover 30+ fall cake concepts, with hyperlinks to the cake recipes that readers get pleasure from most this time of 12 months. My group and I put this listing collectively, and embody many alternative cake varieties like sheet desserts, layer desserts, breakfast desserts, and extra!
Together with this spice cake:
Possibly the considered adorning a cake sends you working for the hills, otherwise you merely don’t have the time. I get it! This simple apple cake has shortly turn out to be a favourite. You can also make it in a 9×13-inch baking pan, and it requires minimal (if any!) adorning.
Or bust out your 9×5-inch loaf pan for marble loaf cake or carrot cake loaf. Straightforward to slice and serve!
Cake for breakfast? Let’s do it. This pumpkin espresso cake is splendidly moist and completely filled with pumpkin spice flavors. Not a fan of pumpkin? Basic espresso cake will nonetheless offer you all the autumn feels, with its heat cinnamon and vanilla flavors.
Make a Smaller 6-inch Cake
Do you know that just about any cupcake recipe that yields between 12 and 15 cupcakes converts completely to a 3-layer 6-inch cake? That’s nearly all of my cupcake recipes. For those who want a smaller cake for an intimate gathering—and even should you simply wish to follow along with your cake baking and adorning instruments—think about a 6-inch cake. My recipes for apple spice cupcakes and pumpkin cupcakes are two favorites this time of 12 months. Observe these directions for making 6-inch desserts.
Query: Is fall your favourite season for dessert recipes? What fall flavors do you most stay up for?
30+ Fall Cake Recipes
Recent Apple Cake
Mushy and tender with a stick-to-your-fork moist crumb and juicy apples in each chunk, this simple apple cake is scrumptious plain, topped with buttery brown sugar glaze, or perhaps a fast dusting of confectioners’ sugar.
Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake
This fall favourite combines a smooth cinnamon-spiced cake with buttery caramelized apples. No fancy ornament required—the beautiful garnish is actually baked into the cake!
Big Cinnamon Roll Cake
You’ll end up making this 7-ingredient big cinnamon roll cake repeatedly. It’s enjoyable to make and much more enjoyable to eat—for bakers of all ages!
Snickerdoodle Cake
This mouthwatering snickerdoodle cake is stuffed with buttery cinnamon swirls and topped with creamy brown sugar cinnamon buttercream frosting. Everybody all the time raves about this one!
Glazed Apple Bundt Cake
This tender and moist home made apple Bundt cake is filled with apples and smothered in a buttery brown sugar glaze. Simply wait till you odor it baking!
Burnt Sugar Caramel Cake
Burnt sugar caramel cake will get its taste from burnt sugar syrup that’s utilized in each the cake and frosting, creating a very distinctive fall taste. Each chunk is smooth, buttery, and pure bliss.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bundt Cake
Every little thing you like about pumpkin cake plus a decadent cream cheese layer hiding inside. Easy to organize and completely spiced, this fall cake all the time impresses a crowd.
Chai Spiced Cinnamon Swirl Bundt Cake
This chai spiced cinnamon swirl Bundt cake is deliciously moist, smooth, and buttery—and excellent for brunch, dessert, or along with your afternoon cup of espresso!
The Finest Pumpkin Cake I’ve Ever Had
Having a go-to pumpkin cake recipe is simply as vital as having a traditional pumpkin pie recipe. This one is supremely moist, smooth, wealthy, and filled with pumpkin spice taste.
Upside Down Pear Gingerbread Cake
Gingerbread isn’t only for the vacations. This boldly spiced gingerbread cake with buttery brown sugar-soaked pears is a welcome addition to any fall dessert lineup!
Pumpkin Bundt Cake
That is my go-to pumpkin Bundt cake recipe as a result of it’s extremely moist, completely spiced, and is scrumptious topped with salted caramel or maple icing. Readers LOVE this one.
Tremendous Moist Spice Cake
My home made spice cake is brimming with fall taste, topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting, and extremely easy to organize in a primary 9×13-inch baking pan.
The Finest Banana Cake I’ve Ever Had
Boasting tons of banana, brown sugar, and cinnamon taste, each bit of my best-ever banana cake is complemented with a clean layer of cream cheese frosting.
Bitter Cream Espresso Cake with Crumb Topping
Easy and traditional, this buttery bitter cream espresso cake is an distinctive strategy to kick off any day. It has double—sure, double—the brown sugar cinnamon crumb streusel!
Pumpkin Espresso Cake with Crumb Topping
A fall tackle a traditional espresso cake! A deal with welcome at brunch or after dinner, this moist pumpkin crumb cake all the time will get rave opinions.
Apple Crumb Cake
That is scrumptious New York-style crumb cake with heat cinnamon apples and double the buttery crumb topping in each chunk. Seize a slice earlier than it’s gone!
Pumpkin Roll Recipe
This home made pumpkin roll recipe yields a spiced pumpkin cake with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting inside. My recipe contains loads of useful success ideas to make sure pumpkin roll perfection each time!
Chocolate Marble Banana Bundt Cake
This recipe relies off of my common banana sheet cake. Right here we’re baking it in a Bundt pan and swirling it with actual chocolate ganache so every chunk has a scrumptious fudge-like ripple!
Triple Chocolate Cake (In style Recipe!)
My traditional chocolate cake is an apparent reader favourite, with its smooth crumb, deep chocolate taste, and decadent chocolate buttercream to complete. It may be made as a sheet cake, too.
Carrot Cake Loaf (Fast Bread)
I took my favourite carrot cake recipe and turned it into an easier-to-assemble—however equally scrumptious—carrot cake loaf. It’s dense, but extremely smooth, and topped with a tangy cinnamon cream cheese frosting.
Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake
Seize a slice of this deliciously flavorful cranberry orange Bundt cake and be handled to brilliant pops of cranberry and a candy cinnamon swirl in each chunk.
Tiramisu Crepe Cake
Although it appears to be like and sounds fancy, tiramisu crepe cake is definitely no-bake and excellent for making forward of time. Simply wait till you slice into these limitless layers of crepes and creamy tiramisu mascarpone filling!
Marble Loaf Cake
Take pleasure in 2 desserts in 1 with this buttery wealthy marble loaf cake. Baking a cake in a loaf pan means simple prep, and the 2-ingredient ganache topping makes for minimal adorning. Win!
Espresso Chocolate Chip Cake
Have your espresso—and eat it, too! Espresso chocolate chip cake is flavored with espresso powder, robust espresso, and chocolate chips, then topped with a creamy espresso espresso buttercream.
Chocolate Cake Roll
This chocolate cake roll combines gentle chocolate sponge cake with candy vanilla whipped cream and chocolate ganache. Wealthy and completely irresistible, this dessert is for chocolate lovers in every single place.
Pumpkin Cake Cheesecake
When pumpkin cake and cheesecake mix forces, we’ve pumpkin cake cheesecake! Every forkful of this 2-in-1 dessert delivers each creamy cheesecake AND completely spiced pumpkin cake.
Chai Latte Cupcakes
Welcome to fall in a cupcake—or as a 6-inch cake! These chai latte cupcakes function heat chai spices like cinnamon, cardamom, and ginger, packed into smooth and fluffy cupcakes.
Banana Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
My banana cupcakes are dense, but nonetheless supremely moist and smooth, and are all the time a crowd-pleasing deal with. Seal the deal on these cupcakes or 6-inch cake with clean cinnamon cream cheese frosting.
Apple Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Frosting
Whether or not you utilize the batter for cupcakes or a 6-inch cake, a clean salted caramel frosting and a drizzle of salted caramel sauce function the proper topping for this apple-dotted deal with.
Pumpkin Cupcakes
My pumpkin cupcakes are smooth, spiced, and the sweetest little deal with topped with cream cheese frosting and a sweet pumpkin garnish. Pumpkin followers with a fall birthday would completely love these as a 6-inch cake!
Fall Cake Recipe: Cranberry Apple Upside Down Cake
And I’ve yet another for you! A gorgeous addition to your fall unfold, this straightforward cranberry apple upside-down cake is stuffed with brilliant flavors. Impressed by my pineapple the wrong way up cake recipe, this model is full with a buttery brown sugar glaze, tart cranberries, candy apples, and a moist cinnamon spice cake. It’s like my apple the wrong way up cake, however with a little bit further pizazz!
The topping is baked proper into the cake. No stacking, assembling, or fancy adorning required. Merely invert the cake out of your 9-inch pie dish onto a cake stand or serving platter, and watch every slice magically disappear. Scrumptious!
Description
A gorgeous addition to your fall unfold, this straightforward cranberry apple the wrong way up cake is stuffed with taste, that includes a brown sugar-butter glaze, tart cranberries, candy apples, and an additional moist spice cake.
Topping
- 6 Tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup (100g) packed gentle or darkish brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon floor cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 medium apple, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced (1/4-inch-thick slices)*
- 1 heaping cup (130g) contemporary or frozen cranberries
Cake
- 1 and 1/2 cups (188g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons floor cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon floor nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon floor ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (8 Tbsp; 113g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup (100g) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (100g) packed gentle or darkish brown sugar
- 2 massive eggs, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 6 Tablespoons (90ml) complete milk, at room temperature*
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C).
- Put together topping first: Mix butter and brown sugar in a small saucepan over medium warmth. Whisk sometimes till butter has melted. Cook dinner, whisking continually, for 1 minute as combination thickens. Take away from warmth and whisk within the cinnamon and vanilla extract. Pour into an ungreased 9-inch pie dish or spherical cake pan. (Be certain that the pan is 2 inches deep. I like to recommend this pie dish, which is 1.8 inches deep however I by no means have an overflow challenge.) Organize the apple slices neatly on prime, overlapping the place vital, and place the cranberries within the heart and anyplace there’s house. See picture above. Place pan within the fridge for a couple of minutes as you put together the cake batter. This helps solidify or “set” the topping’s association.
- Make the cake batter: Whisk collectively the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt. Put aside.
- Utilizing a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on excessive velocity till clean and creamy, about 1 minute. Add each sugars and beat on medium-high velocity till creamed collectively, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the edges and backside of the bowl with a spatula as wanted. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat on excessive velocity till mixed. Pour the dry components into the moist components. Combine on low velocity and, because the mixer runs, slowly pour within the milk. Beat on low velocity simply till all the components are mixed. Don’t over-mix. You could have to whisk all of it by hand to ensure there are not any lumps on the backside of the bowl. The batter can be barely thick.
- Take away topping from the fridge. Pour and unfold cake batter evenly over topping.
- Bake for 40–46 minutes, tenting foil on prime of the cake midway by bake time to forestall the highest from over-browning earlier than the middle has an opportunity to completely cook dinner. The cake is finished when a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out principally clear—a pair moist crumbs are OK. Don’t be alarmed in case your cake takes longer or if the cake rises up and sticks to the foil. (We serve the cake the wrong way up anyway!)
- Take away cake from the oven and funky on a wire rack for simply quarter-hour. Invert the marginally cooled cake onto a cake stand or serving plate. A few of the juices from the topping will seep over the edges—that’s okay. You possibly can slice and serve the cake heat, however the slices can be messy. I discover it’s finest to chill the cake utterly at room temperature earlier than slicing and serving. Don’t refrigerate the cake to hurry up the cooling course of as a result of it may find yourself tasting overly dense.
- Cowl leftover slices and retailer for as much as 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. Thaw at room temperature. I don’t suggest freezing the cake as a complete as a result of the topping association doesn’t thaw very properly. See make-ahead directions under.
Notes
- Make Forward Directions: You possibly can refrigerate the topping in step 2 for as much as 1 day. If refrigerating for longer than 1 hour, cowl it tightly. Apart from that, this isn’t one of the best cake to make forward of time or freeze as a result of the topping will cool down into the cake—whereas nonetheless tasty, the presentation gained’t be as pleasing. You possibly can, nonetheless, put together the cake batter’s moist components (cowl and refrigerate) and dry components (cowl at room temperature) individually as much as 1 day forward of time, then proceed with the recipe the following day. Let the moist components come to room temperature earlier than mixing.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Saucepan | Whisk | 9-inch Pie Dish | Glass Mixing Bowl | Electrical Mixer (Handheld or Stand) | Cooling Rack
- Apples: Use your favourite number of apple. I usually use Granny Smith, Fuji, or Honeycrisp. Right here’s extra on the finest apples to make use of for baking.
- Milk: Complete milk is finest, however you should utilize decrease fats or nondairy milk if wanted.
- Why is every thing at room temperature? All refrigerated objects needs to be at room temperature so the batter mixes collectively simply and evenly. Learn extra concerning the significance of room temperature components.
