Our Most Pinned Fall Desserts

Let your sweet tooth be your guide

October 31, 2015

Chocolate Chess Pie with Cornbread Crumble
Joseph De Leo

Brown sugar, warm spices, and baked fruit—fall may be the best season for dessert. And if our handy analytics tools have anything to say about it, you feel the same way. Here’s a collection of our most popular fall desserts you’ve shared on Pinterest. For even more recipe inspiration, follow us: pinterest.com/saveur.

Persimmon Pudding

Eva Powell, a former elementary-school librarian in Mitchell, Indiana, has won the town’s pudding contest five times with her recipe for persimmon pudding with a crispy, cake-like crust.

Apple Pandowdy

At Boston’s Durgin-Park, squares of buttery crust are pressed into a simmering apple filling partway through cooking to soak up the spiced sauce in this old-school dessert. Get the recipe for Apple Pandowdy »

Cardamom Cream Puffs (Semlor)

Cardamom Cream Puffs (Semlor)

Gingersnaps

Claudia Fleming shared this recipe with us. She likes to serve these wafer-thin cookies alongside fresh apples or pears.

Layered Strudel Cake (Prekmurska Gibanica)

Able to be assembled up to 2 days prior to baking, this multilayered pastry cake is stuffed with poppy seed, walnut, cottage cheese, and tart apple fillings. Get the recipe for Layered Strudel Cake (Prekmurska Gibanica) »
This traditional cardamom-scented Indian rice pudding owes its particular richness to the inclusion of whole milk, which has been reduced by half during the cooking process to produce a thick, creamy base. Get the recipe for Indian Rice Pudding (Kheer) »

Chocolate Chess Pie with Cornbread Crumble

Chocolate Chess Pie with Cornbread Crumble

Shortbread Cookies (Punitions)

Traditional French shortbread cookies taste best using a good salted butter with a high butterfat content, such as Kerrygold.

Mexican Bread Pudding (Capirotada)

This satisfying dessert uses piloncillo, a type of brown sugar used in Mexican cooking. Get the recipe for Mexican Bread Pudding (Capirotada) »

Yellow Man (Irish Honeycomb Candy)

We adapted this recipe from the Irish food authority Darina Allen’s book The Complete Book of Irish Country Cooking (Penguin Studio, 1996). Get the recipe for Yellow Man »

Salted Caramel Apple Pie

Salted Caramel Apple Pie

Brûléed Italian Plums with Armagnac Custard

Brûléed Italian Plums with Armagnac Custard

Treacle Tart

In Britain, treacle is a word applied to everything from sticky molasses to golden syrup, which is lighter in character and in color, and an essential component of our beloved treacle tart. Inside a buttery shortbread crust, a molten goo of golden syrup drowns bread crumbs and lemon zest. With little more to it than warming ginger and an egg whisked with cream to set the center, its very simplicity is its ultimate strength. —Tamasin Day-Lewis

Spiced Persimmon Frozen Yogurt

Classic frozen yogurt gets a boost from floral persimmon and toasted spices.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Tart with Gingersnap Crust

Creamy pumpkin filling over a ginger cookie crust provides a comforting balance of sweetness and spice.

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