15 Popular Fall Cakes for the Season
As much as we love all of the fruity cakes for spring and summer, I think that Fall Cakes are our favorite!
There are so many fantastic options from pumpkin spice cake to sweet potato cake, apple cakes, spice cakes, and so many more.
Make sure to keep these delicious favorites in mind for your fall baking this season! We hope that you find something that you would like to try. Any of these would make the perfect fall birthday cake, Thanksgiving cake, or cake "just because"!
If you've tried any of these recipes, make sure to leave a comment below- we would love to hear from you. Enjoy scrolling through!
Also, if you are looking for cake decorating ideas for fall, as well as Halloween Cakes, we have lots of great tutorials for you!
15 Popular Fall Cakes for the Season
Need Ideas for Cakes to make this fall? Here are some of our favorites!
This easy Banana Rum Cake always gets rave reviews! It is ultra moist and so flavorful with bananas, brown sugar, cinnamon, pecans, and a buttery rum glaze. This is one of many rum cakes on our site, and a perfect dessert for fall gatherings!
I have to include Carrot Cake on every roundup of favorites, because no matter what the season- Carrot Cake deserves to be on the dessert menu! This is one of our most popular recipes on the site, with fantastic flavor from carrots, cinnamon, pecans, coconut, crushed pineapple, and cream cheese frosting!
We love this moist Toffee Pecan Caramel Cakes and always receive great feedback! The flavors of brown sugar, caramel, and toffee along with pecans make it a great choice for fall!
This buttery Maple Pound Cake is so flavorful with maple, brown sugar, and a topping of caramel and pecans. You will come back to this recipe again and again!
Nobody would guess this this Carrot Cake recipe starts with a cake mix! All of the add-ins give it the flavor of a scratch recipe.
Gingerbread Pound Cake is a great choice for fall and winter gatherings! It is a simple recipe with brown sugar, warm spices, and molasses. So rich and flavorful!
Italian Cream Cake is always a favorite, with a flavorful combination of pecans, coconut, and cream cheese frosting.
This Apple Snack Cake is an old fashioned favorite with apples, spices, and cream cheese frosting!
We love maple cakes in the fall! This Maple Walnut Cake is a buttermilk cake recipe with a tender crumb and fabulous flavor from maple, walnuts, and a hint of brown sugar.
This delicious Pecan Spice Pound Cake recipe has richness from butter and sour cream, and fantastic flavor from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and chopped pecans. It is topped with a caramel glaze.
This delicious Chai Cake is inspired by the spiced flavor of Chai Tea. It is moist and soft with just the right amount of spice. It has all of the cozy flavor that you would expect in a fall dessert! We've frosted it with cream cheese frosting.
This Apple Pecan Bundt Cake is one of our favorites for fall! SO ultra moist and delicious with pecans, caramel, apples, and spices.
Nobody would guess that this moist German Chocolate Cake starts with a cake mix! It is such a delicious recipe, with German Chocolate Cake layers and a rich homemade coconut pecan frosting. We have a delicious scratch version of German Chocolate Cake as well!
This Sweet Potato Pecan Pound Cake is another favorite! We have several Sweet Potato Cakes that we love on our site, but the swirl of brown sugar and pecans takes this one to another level. I this of it as the cake version of sweet potato casserole ;0)
No fall roundup would be complete without Pumpkin Spice Cake! This homemade layer cake is rich and delicious with great pumpkin spice flavor and spiced cream cheese frosting- yum!