8 Pumpkin Desserts That'll Put You in the Mood for Fall
Best Pumpkin Desserts to Get You in the Fall Mood
We’re feeling gourd thanks to the seasonal arrival of pumpkin desserts. Nothing gets us more pumped for fall than pumpkin desserts, pumpkin spice lattes, and PSL everything.
Every state in the United States produces these orange beauties. It’s not surprising pumpkin is one of our favorite fruits and fall flavors. Gourds are a type of squash that is native to North America.
Pumpkins are versatile and can be used to make pumpkin desserts like pumpkin pies and pumpkin cakes. Grab a fork and fall in love with the best fall desserts to get you in a festive fall mood.
What is the Most Popular Dessert Made from Pumpkins?
Pumpkin pie is the most popular dessert made from pumpkins. There are many types of pumpkins grown in the U.S. They fall into two categories: pumpkins used for decorating for holidays like Halloween and pumpkins used for pies.
Varieties of pumpkins used for decorating include, Connecticut Field, Howden, and Tandy F1 Hybrid pumpkins. Pumpkins for pies are smaller and sweeter. Pie pumpkin varieties include Long Island cheese and sugar pumpkins.
While pumpkin desserts are popular in the fall, they are delicious year-round. There are many pumpkin desserts that will get you in the fall mood, including:
Pumpkin pies
Pumpkin cakes
Pumpkin desserts
Pumpkin whoopie pies
Pumpkin ice cream
Pumpkin cheesecake
Pumpkin donuts
Pumpkin cookies
Pumpkin Pies
It would be fall — or Thanksgiving — without this pumpkin pie. This orange-hued custard pie is made from strained, cooked gourds. For centuries, the British, and then Americans, have used orange squash for baking pumpkin pies.
Sweetie Pies Bakery’s Pumpkin Pie
Mmm…pie, oh my! Toni Chiappetta has been making her famous pies since 1988. Sweetie Pies’ Pumpkin Pie is a cutie pie made with pumpkin purée, allspice, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. This classic American pie is baked in Napa Valley, California, and topped with pastry “leaves” before it’s shipped nationwide.
Wick’s Pies Pumpkin Spice Pie
Duane “Wick’’ Wickersham first made pies at an Indiana factory in the 1940s. The popularity of his pies led to the opening of Wick’s Pies in Winchester, Indiana. One of their most popular pies is Pumpkin Spice Pie. Each is made from a secret family recipe that includes sweet cream and extra spices, including cinnamon, clove, coriander, ginger, and nutmeg.
Pumpkin Cakes
Whether you want a pumpkin cake for your family, friends, or yourself, these cakes will give ’em pumpkin to talk about!
Chesapeake Bay Gourmet’s Pumpkin Spice Smith Island Cake
Smith Island Cake is the official state dessert of Maryland. One of the best bakers of this tall cake with thin layers is Chesapeake Bay Gourmet in Jessup, Maryland. Chesapeake Bay Gourmet’s Pumpkin Spice Smith Island Cake is a towering 12 layers of pumpkin cake frosted with creamy cream cheese frosting.
Miri Nadler Cakes’ Floral Decorated Pumpkin Cake
What started as a food blog and a passion for baking has turned into a celebrated cake company in Charlotte, North Carolina. Miri Nadler Cake Design bakes 6-inch layer cakes that are hand decorated with beautiful flowers.
Miri Nadler Cakes’ Floral Decorated Pumpkin Cake combines the top flavor of fall with elaborate cake design. Each cake features pumpkin spiced sponge cake, vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream, and signature frosting flowers. Each cake is decorated with two peach roses and a large coral peony.
Pumpkin Desserts
We love pumpkin spice and everything nice. America’s top food makers are creating cute and delicious pumpkin desserts and fabulous fall desserts that are pure perfection.
PieCaken Bakeshop’s Original PieCaken
Thanks to pastry chef Zac Young’s sense of humor, creativity, and culinary talent, the world has PieCaken. The PieCaken was created as an NYC hotel holiday dessert. It exploded in popularity after its debut, causing a pumpkin purée shortage in New York in 2015.
The Original PieCaken is a three-in-one pie-cake dessert. The monstrous dessert is a tri-level delight with cinnamon buttercream slathered between pecan pie, pumpkin pie, and spice cake.
Three Brothers Bakery’s Pumpecapple Piecake
Brothers Sigmund, Sol, and Max Jucker started baking in Poland in 1932. They carried on the tradition when they came to Houston, Texas in 1949. Seven decades on, their Polish bakery, Three Brothers Bakery, continues to bake their legendary treats like the 23.5 lbs Pumpecapple.
The Pumpecapple is the dessert answer to the turducken. It’s a 3-layer dessert with a pumpkin pie baked in a pumpkin spice cake, a pecan pie baked in a chocolate cake, and an apple pie baked in a traditional spice cake. Each layer is frosted in cream cheese frosting and the entire cake is showered in pecans and caramel drizzle.
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
Cookies and pumpkin…whoopie! Whoopie pies are soft, cake-like sandwich cookies with marshmallow cream centers. They are even more delicious in pumpkin, fall’s favorite flavor.
Tico’s Whoopies’ Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
One bite and you’ll shout “Whoopie!” for Tico’s Whoopies’ Pumpkin Whoopie Pies. Holly Holleran’s whimsical whoopie pies are handmade by Amish bakers in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania. Each whoopie pie is made with rich, fluffy, scratch-made butter cream. The cream is nestled between two cake rounds made with pumpkin, spices, eggs, and vanilla.
Cape Whoopies’ Fall Whoopie Pie Dozen
Cape Elizabeth, Maine’s Cape Whoopies are wicked good whoopie pies. Marcia Wiggins’ MAINE-IAC whoopie pies are delicious anytime of year, but one bite and you’ll fall in love with their Fall Whoopie Pie Dozen. This delicious pack includes 3 each of Granny’s Gone Wild (Granny Smith apple spiced cake with caramel cream), Life Is Gourd (pumpkin cakes with cream cheese cream), Maple Sunday (vanilla cakes with maple cream), and Salted Caramel (chocolate cakes with sea salt and caramel cream).
Pumpkin Ice Cream
Ever since the Chinese invented ice cream in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), the world has been a more delicious place. Move over vanilla and chocolate and get the scoop on pumpkin ice cream.
Tipsy Scoop Boozy Ice Cream’s Mozart Chocolate Pumpkin Mudslide
Nothing screams fall like pumpkin ice cream. Tipsy Scoop makes it up a notch with its boozy Mozart Chocolate Pumpkin Mudslide. These thick and creamy milkshakes are a collaboration between New York’s Tipsy Scoop Boozy Ice Cream and Mozart Chocolate Liqueur. The combo of chocolate pumpkin spice ice cream and chocolate pumpkin liqueur and coffee liqueur makes us melt.
Cream + Sugar’s Pumpkin Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches
Cream + Sugar’s ice cream is so good it went from making appearances on dessert menus at Fine Dining Restaurant Group’s Jackson, Wyoming, restaurants to having its own brick-and-mortar shop in Jackson Hole.
These Pumpkin Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches are almost too cute to eat. Each artisanal ice cream sandwich is made with small-batch pumpkin spiced ice cream infused with allspice cinnamon, clove, ginger, and nutmeg. The ice cream is sandwiched between baked-fresh-daily chocolate chip cookies and rolled in orange and chocolate sprinkles.
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Restaurateur Arnold Reuben may have invented New York-style cheesecake in the 1930s, but America’s top chefs and bakeries have added their creative touches to the world’s best cheesecake styles, from New York to Chicago to Japanese.
The Cheesecake Girl’s Pumpkin Cheesecake
Samantha Strange, The Cheesecake Girl, has been whipping up rich, creamy, and dreamy cheesecakes since 2016. We have fallen in love with her creative cheesecake flavors.
Her 9-inch Pumpkin Cheesecake with a buttery graham crust weighs 6 lbs. It’s topped with pumpkin pie cheesecake, a generous layer of buttercream, and a delightful dusting of cinnamon sugar.
Cootie Brown’s Seasonal Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake
It wouldn’t be fall without Cootie Brown’s Seasonal Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake. This 4-lbs beauty from Johnson City, Tennessee, is made with cream cheese, pumpkin, spices, and everything nice. The top is adorned with a festive cinnamon flecked gourd. One bite and you’ll enjoy gourd vibes only this fall!
Pumpkin Donuts
This fall, put a ring on it. We love donuts, ringed sweet dough fried or baked to perfection and served hot and fresh. We have the most a-dough-able pumpkin donuts in America.
Primo’s Donuts’ Thanksgiving Pumpkin Cake Donuts
Since 1956, Los Angeles’ Primo’s Donuts has delighted donut lovers in California and beyond. This old-school donut shop gets in the fall mood with their Thanksgiving Pumpkin Cake Donuts. Indulge in plain pumpkin donuts, pumpkin donuts topped with cinnamon sugar, or pumpkin donuts topped with pumpkin icing — or all three!
Stan’s Donuts’ Pumpkin Spice Old Fashioned Donuts
When Stan Berman opened his eponymous donut shop in Los Angeles in 1963, his classic donuts became a near-instant hit. His friend Rich Labriola opened an outpost of Stan’s Donuts in Chicago in 2014 and the rest is delicious history.
Stan’s Donuts handmakes their gourd-geous donuts the old school way. Stan’s Pumpkin Spice Old Fashioned Donuts are a glazed cake donut made with pumpkin purée, and ground cinnamon, cloves, and ginger.
Pumpkin Cookies
When there are freshly baked cookies around, we don’t mind getting our hands caught in the cookie jar. Grab some milk and enjoy the best pumpkin cookies ever this fall.
Monica’s Gourmet Cookies’ Pumpkin Cookie Sampler
It took years for Monica Mitidieri to perfect her hand-crafted cookies. Each nut, chip, or raisin is placed by hand on each cookie. SInce 1991, Monica’s Gourmet Cookies has been baking 45+ flavors of cookies, including fun fall flavors, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Monica’s Gourmet Cookies’ Pumpkin Cookie Sampler is a delicious taste of fall. It’s also a Goldbelly exclusive mix of 6 Iced Pumpkin Cookies and 6 Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Shortbread Society’s Pumpkin Pie Shortbread Tray
Shortbread Society’s Pumpkin Pie Shortbread is a sensational tri-level shortbread. The layers include Original Granny Pearl shortbread on the bottom (the recipe was Legge’s Granny Pearl’s), pumpkin pie filling in the middle, and pumpkin pie shortbread on top. These shortbread trays come in regular, gluten-free, and vegan.
This article originally appeared on Goldbelly.com and was syndicated by MediaFeed.org.
