15 Fall Desserts That Will Make You Question Your Loyalty to Pie

This tastes like all the good parts of pumpkin pie, and is totally customizable to assemble and serve.

While this delicious, simple cake bakes, a sweet, rich sauce forms in the bottom of the dish.

Easier than apple pie but just as delicious and customizable, baked apples are the perfect back-pocket, cold-weather dessert.

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Finally, a pumpkin dessert that isn’t dominated by spices — or, for that matter, pumpkin.

Easy and quick to make, these pears are delicious.

These gingersnaps are a warm winter hug in a cookie with big ginger flavor.

An easy recipe for orange glazed cranberry bread.

These unique cookies are made without jam. Instead, the thumbprints are filled with maple cream.

Earthy-sweet beet purée gives this gluten-free chocolate cake a beautiful red velvet hue.

Pumpkin-enriched, fall-spiced, cinnamon-swirled and cream cheese-frosted buns.

Move over, apples!

In this recipe from famed food writer Ruth Reichl, caramelized apples fragrant with cinnamon and nutmeg are used to fill boozy rolled pancakes.

These soft pumpkin-cranberry cookies filled with fresh cranberries and chopped walnuts are perfect for your holiday dessert table.

Sturdy yet tender with an irresistible savory twist, this miso-maple loaf is reminiscent of other crowd-pleasing cakes but with a flavor all its own.

These oatmeal fig bars are a homemade variation of store-bought fig bars. They’re wholesome and satisfying and keep wonderfully for snacks and lunches all week long.