Our Most Pinned Fall Desserts

Let your sweet tooth be your guide

Published Oct 31, 2015 1:15 AM

Chocolate Chess Pie with Cornbread Crumble

Photography by 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)

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

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)

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 »