60+ of The BEST Fall Cake Recipes!
Today I'm sharing a collection of the BEST Fall Cake recipes!
These flavorful go-to cakes are great options no matter what time of year- but we especially love them for fall celebrations!
Whether you're in search of a fall birthday cake recipe, potluck dessert, or something delicious for friends and family, you are sure to find something in this list!
We are featuring fall classic cakes, scratch cake recipes, cake mix recipes and more.
Some of our most popular cake recipes for fall are Pumpkin Spice Cake, easy Apple Bundt Cake, Maple Cake, and Gingerbread Cake. Enjoy scrolling through!
60+ of The Best Fall Cake Recipes!
Sharing the most delicious roundup of the BEST Fall Cake Recipes! Enjoy these for your fall birthdays, Thanksgiving gatherings, or just because!
Apple Bundt Cake (Cake Mix)
This ultra moist Apple Bundt Cake is so easy to make with a box of yellow cake mix! Apples, cinnamon, and nutmeg are the perfect flavor combination, and it is topped with a homemade caramel glaze. Perfect for fall birthdays, Thanksgiving, and more!
Maple Pound Cake
This decadent Maple Pound Cake is so rich and flavorful! This scratch recipe has amazing maple flavor and is topped with homemade caramel and pecans!
Sweet Potato Bundt Cake
This moist Sweet Potato Bundt Cake is so moist, flavorful, and perfect for fall! We have a great layered sweet potato cake and sweet potato cupcakes recipe as well!
Snickerdoodle Cupcakes
These moist Snickerdoodle Cupcakes are the best! Moist vanilla cupcakes are swirled with cinnamon and sugar, and frosted with cinnamon cream cheese frosting!
Maple Almond Cake
This moist and delicious cake has the perfect balance of maple and almond flavor!
Apple Upside Down Cake (cake mix)
This flavorful Apple Upside Down Cake is so moist and delicious with apples, spices, and brown sugar. This cake starts with a simple cake mix! Keep it in mind for your fall celebrations.
Pumpkin Gingersnap Cake
This moist Pumpkin Gingersnap cake is the perfect recipe for fall or winter gatherings! Gingersnap-speckled cake layers are filled with spiced cream cheese frosting and crushed gingersnaps, and frosted with spiced cream cheese frosting as well. It is a heavenly combination.
Sweet Potato Cupcakes
These moist homemade Sweet Potato Cupcakes are so soft and flavorful! They have amazing flavor from sweet potatoes, cinnamon, and nutmeg as well as cream cheese frosting! Keep this recipe in mind for fall celebrations!
Apple Pound Cake
This decadent pound cake is flavored with brown sugar, granny smith apples, spices and a homemade glaze! It is perfect for fall celebrations.
Butter Pecan Pound Cake
This moist, flavorful Butter Pecan Pound Cake has wonderful flavor from buttered pecans, brown sugar, and a homemade caramel glaze.
Brown Sugar Toffee Pound Cake
This moist and buttery Brown Sugar Toffee Pound Cake has amazing brown sugar and toffee flavor, and is topped with a luscious caramel icing glaze.
Chai Cake
This fantastic scratch Chai Cake was inspired by all of the warm spices of chai tea. It is frosted with cream cheese frosting- perfect dessert for fall and winter!
Sweet Potato Pound Cake
This decadent spiced Sweet Potato Pound Cake is flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, sweet potato puree and a caramel glaze!
Spice Cupcakes
These moist spice cupcakes are flavored with brown sugar, spices, orange zest, and orange cream cheese frosting!
Caramel Italian Cream Cake
This moist Caramel Italian Cream Cake is a delicious twist on an old favorite. Coconut pecan cake layers are flavored with brown sugar, glazed with caramel, and frosted with caramel cream cheese frosting.
Apple Pecan Bundt Cake with Caramel Glaze
This moist Apple Pecan Bundt Cake with Caramel Glaze has amazing flavor! This is the perfect fall cake recipe!
Apple Caramel Pecan Cake
This Apple Caramel Pecan Cake is so moist and flavorful! Homemade apple cake layers are glazed with caramel, sprinkled with pecans and filled and frosted with cream cheese frosting.
Pumpkin Toffee Pecan Pound Cake
This delicious Pumpkin Toffee Pound Cake is so moist and has amazing flavor from pumpkin, toffee, pecans, spices, and a caramel glaze!
Maple Carrot Cake
This moist Maple Carrot Cake is so delicious with carrots, spices, pecans, pineapple, coconut maple with maple cream cheese frosting!
Maple Pecan Layer Cake (Doctored Cake Mix)
Nobody would guess that this flavorful Maple Pecan Layer Cake starts with a simple cake mix! We love this delicious cake for fall and winter celebrations!
Apple Cinnamon Layer Cake
This moist Apple Cinnamon Layer Cake is so flavorful and perfect for fall celebrations! We've filled and frosted it with homemade cream cheese frosting.
Italian Cream Bundt Cake- Doctored Cake Mix
This moist Italian Cream Bundt Cake has amazing flavor from a combination coconut, pecans, and cream cheese frosting! Nobody would guess that it starts with a cake mix!
Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cake
This moist, soft Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cake has an amazing flavor combination of pumpkin, spices, and a hint of brown sugar. If you are looking for a flavorful fall cake, you will love this recipe!
Applesauce Cake
This decadent Applesauce Cake is ultra moist and has wonderful apple spiced flavor with a homemade caramel glaze!
Pumpkin Cheesecake Cake
A layer of delicious cinnamon cheesecake is sandwiched between two moist homemade pumpkin spice cake layers in this amazing fall recipe! So moist and delicious!
Applesauce Spice Cake
This delicious Applesauce Spice Cake is perfect for fall with wonderful apple spice flavor. We've frosted it with a heavenly, easy-to-make spiced cream cheese frosting!
Maple Toffee Cake
This moist and delicious Maple Toffee Layer Cake recipe is so flavorful and perfect for fall entertaining!
Pumpkin Gingerbread Cake
This moist Pumpkin Gingerbread Cake is amazingly flavorful and perfect for fall! A delicious combination of two fall favorites.
Snickerdoodle Cake
This delicious Snickerdoodle Cake has wonderful vanilla flavor with a swirl of cinnamon and sugar. It is super moist, buttery, and has amazing flavor- we've frosted it with cinnamon cream cheese frosting and drizzled with homemade caramel- yum!
Cherry Spice Cake
This moist, flavorful spice cake is speckled with bits of cherries and is frosted in a heavenly spiced cream cheese frosting.
Apple Toffee Caramel Cake {A Scratch Recipe}
This moist Apple Toffee Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting has an amazing combination of flavors- It is the perfect fall dessert!
Sweet Potato Layer Cake
This moist, scratch Sweet Potato Layer Cake is perfect for fall and a wonderful alternative to the traditional spice cake! We love it with spiced cream cheese frosting!
Orange Spice Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This fantastic Orange Spice Cake mix with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting starts with a cake mix! It's a new favorite of ours for fall!
Lemon Orange Pound Cake
Moist, flavorful Lemon Orange Pound Cake! This buttery, moist pound cake has wonderful citrus flavor.
Cannoli Cake
A delicious scratch Cannoli Cake recipe! Three moist vanilla cake layers with chocolate chip mascarpone filling!
Pumpkin Spice Latte Cake
This Pumpkin Spice cake recipe has the perfect balance of pumpkin, spices, and espresso!
Chocolate Turtle Cake Recipe
This decadent Chocolate Turtle Cake with chocolate cake layers, ganache, caramel sauce, toasted pecans, and chocolate buttercream is sure to please a crowd!
Cinnamon Roll Cake
This Cinnamon Roll Cake has wonderful cinnamon flavor combined with a dreamy cinnamon cream cheese frosting!
Apple Spice Cream Cheese Frosting
This amazing and easy-to-make Apple Spice Cream Cheese Frosting is so flavorful and is the perfect complement to spice cakes!
Chocolate Sour Cream Cake- Scratch Recipe
This moist, decadent Chocolate Sour Cream Cake is the perfect scratch chocolate layer cake!
Vanilla Buttermilk Cake Recipe
This Vanilla Buttermilk Layer Cake is so moist and flavorful! It is one of our go-to recipes for Vanilla Cake.
Apple Spice Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This moist and delicious Apple Spice Cake all starts with a simple cake mix! This is such a wonderful, easy recipe for fall, or whenever you're in the mood for apple spiced goodness.
Hummingbird Cake
With flavors of banana, pineapple, pecans, and cinnamon, this amazing Hummingbird Cake recipe is sure to become an instant favorite!
Carrot Cake from Scratch
This scratch Carrot Cake is my FAVORITE cake, and one of our most popular recipes on the site! Carrot cake with crushed pineapple, pecans, coconut, and spices!
Pineapple Cake Recipe
This Pineapple Cake is fantastic! Yellow cake layers are filled with flavorful pineapple and cream.
Pecan Spice Layer Cake
Moist and flavorful spice cake with a pecan streusel topping! So delicious any time of year but I love it for fall gatherings!
Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting
This moist and flavorful Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake has such a wonderful combination of flavors!
Chocolate Pecan Pie Cake
This cake is a decadent, flavorful homemade chocolate cake recipe paired with a heavenly pecan pie filling! This recipe is sure to become an instant favorite!
Caramel Vanilla Latte Cake Recipe
This Caramel Vanilla Latte Cake recipe has the perfect balance of caramel, vanilla, and espresso!
Caramel Apple Spice Cake
This Caramel Apple Spice Cake has so much flavor from apples, cinnamon, caramel, and nuts! It's always a favorite but I especially love it in the fall!
Banana Cake with Butter Pecan Cream Cheese Filling
This super moist and flavorful homemade banana cake is sure to be a crowd pleaser!
Mocha Toffee Crunch Cake Recipe
This fantastic Mocha Toffee Crunch Layer Cake with Mocha Buttercream is so moist! It has the perfect balance of chocolate, espresso, and toffee flavors!
German Chocolate Cake Recipe! {Scratch}
This German Chocolate Cake tastes amazing! Moist German chocolate cake layers with a flavorful coconut and pecan filling. This recipe is always a crowd pleaser!
Snickerdoodle Bundt Cake
This Snickerdoodle bundt cake consists of moist vanilla cake swirled with cinnamon and brown sugar! It is a delicious scratch recipe and perfect for all sorts of occasions! The cinnamon and brown sugar flavor make it especially nice for fall birthdays, potlucks, Thanksgiving, and more!
Chocolate Italian Cream Cake
This Chocolate Italian Cream Cake recipe is a delicious twist on a beloved classic!
Italian Cream Cake Recipe
This amazing Italian Cream Cake recipe has so much flavor from chopped pecans, coconut, cream cheese frosting and more!
Banana Pudding Cake Recipe
All the wonderful flavor of banana pudding in cake form! We love this amazing recipe!
Caramel Mousse Filling for Cakes & Cupcakes
This light and delicious Caramel Mousse Filling is amazing for your cakes and cupcakes! We love it with chocolate cakes as well as caramel! Enjoy!
Caramel Cake with Caramel Frosting {A Scratch Recipe}
Moist and Delicious Caramel Cake old fashioned Caramel Frosting!
Easy Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting
This Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting is so easy to make and tastes amazing with everything from spice cakes to pumpkin cakes and more!
Maple Pecan Cake with Maple Buttercream {A Scratch Recipe}
We love this deliciously flavorful Maple Pecan Layer Cake - It is the perfect fall recipe!
Apple Walnut Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
Apples, walnuts, maple, and spices- This amazing cake is bursting with flavor! We especially love this layer cake recipe for fall gatherings!
Pumpkin Spice Cake~ {Scratch Recipe}
This scratch Pumpkin Spice Layer Cake is the BEST! It is ultra moist and has wonderful pumpkin flavor.
Pumpkin Spice Cake~Doctored Cake Mix
This is the perfect doctored cake mix recipe for Pumpkin Spice Cake! So delicious!
Butter Pecan & Pumpkin Ice Cream Cake-YUM!~ Blog
This easy ice cream cake is a delicious combination of pumpkin and butter pecan!
Gingerbread Cake {Scratch} with Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting
Oh how we love this moist gingerbread cake recipe!
Gingerbread Cake ~ A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This Gingerbread Cake is one of our favorites for fall and it all starts with a simple cake mix! This is a fantastic choice for fall birthdays and gatherings!
Gingerbread Latte Cake Recipe
This moist and delicious Gingerbread Latte Cake has the perfect balance of gingerbread and espresso flavor! This is the perfect choice for fall and winter holidays & entertaining!
Favorite Fall Cake Decorating Designs
We've made lots of cake decorating tutorials over the years! Make sure to check out our full collection of fall and Thanksgiving Cake Designs as well.
A very delicious Roundup :-) I Love Fall too!
this selection of recipies look wonderful, each recipie I print out, I think "No, I'll make this one first"...however I think the Gingerbread Latte cake recipie is calling my name today.
Thanks ladies!
@Claire- I'm glad that you are finding so many you'd like to try! I do love the Gingerbread Latte Cake! ;0) Happy baking!
thank you for your wonderful recipies. this is one of the few schools I actually trust the quality of the recipies.
Thank you for the wonderful cake recipes. I cannot wait to make them, I have tried a few already and my family love them!
@Claire & Carole- Thank you all so much for your kind words! xoxo
These recipes look just plain wonderful!
Cannot wait to float out some of the ideas in our bakery and definitely will give credit to this blog for such amazing ideas :)
I am always looking to bake something different and I am sure finding many new recipes to try here! Thank you for all the great ideas!
Thank you for posting the fall roundup of cakes, several are on my list.
However, really want to thank you for Peanut Butter Cake (doctored cake). I’ve made twice now and of all the cakes I’ve made over the years the men have decided new favorite! My husband has already requested for his birthday.
Thank you so much!
Hi Karen, thanks so. much for your feedback on the Peanut Butter Cake! I'm so glad that you all liked it!! xoxo
All the cakes look delicious 😋. Nice selection of recipes.