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The minute the air turns crisp, we start reaching for the pumpkin. These easy pumpkin recipes cover every craving the season brings, from soft pumpkin bread and cheesecake to cookies, muffins, cozy lattes, and the pumpkin pie that anchors the Thanksgiving table. Most use simple pantry ingredients and real pumpkin, and plenty of them come together with almost no effort. Pull out the pumpkin spice and let’s fill the house with that autumn smell.
Pumpkin Cakes & Cupcakes
Easy Pumpkin Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting
Soft pumpkin spice cake under a thick layer of brown sugar frosting. It is everything you want the first cool week of fall to taste like. Get the recipe →
Easy Pumpkin Cake Recipe (Snack Cake with Praline Frosting)
A simple pumpkin snack cake topped with a buttery praline frosting. Easy enough for a Tuesday, good enough for company. Get the recipe →
Caramel Pumpkin Sheet Cake
A big pan of pumpkin cake drizzled with pumpkin spice caramel, made to feed a crowd. Cut it into squares and bring it to every fall party. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Cake with Bourbon Praline Frosting
Moist pumpkin cake with a grown up bourbon praline frosting on top. It tastes like fall got dressed up for a night out. Get the recipe →
Maple Glazed Pumpkin Bundt Cakes
Little pumpkin bundt cakes finished with a sweet maple glaze. They look bakery fancy and take almost no effort. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Mini Chocolate Chips
Fluffy pumpkin cupcakes studded with mini chocolate chips and topped with a tall swirl of frosting. A lunchbox and bake sale favorite all season. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Cookies
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft, cakey pumpkin cookies loaded with chocolate chips. This is the one people ask you to bring back every single fall. Get the recipe →
Easy Pumpkin Cookies (Frosted Oatmeal)
Chewy oatmeal pumpkin cookies under a swipe of frosting and a dusting of pumpkin spice. Cozy, soft, and impossible to eat just one. Get the recipe →
Easy Pumpkin Cookies (Chocolate Kiss Blossoms)
Soft pumpkin cookies with a chocolate kiss pressed right in the middle. They are as cute as they are good. Get the recipe →
Soft Pumpkin Snickerdoodles with White Chocolate Chips
Pillowy pumpkin snickerdoodles rolled in cinnamon sugar with white chocolate chips throughout. A fall twist on the cookie everyone already loves. Get the recipe →
Iced Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
Soft pumpkin oatmeal cookies finished with a sweet vanilla icing. Grab one with a glass of milk and call it a good afternoon. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Cheesecakes & Bars
Pumpkin Cheesecake
A tall, creamy pumpkin cheesecake swirled with spice and topped with cinnamon whipped cream. This is the showstopper for your Thanksgiving table. Get the recipe →
Easy Mini Pumpkin Cheesecake
Individual pumpkin cheesecakes topped with whipped cream and a dusting of spice. Everybody gets their own, no slicing required. Get the recipe →
Easy Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars with Biscoff Crust
Layers of pumpkin cheesecake over a Biscoff crust with a walnut crumble on top. Sweet, spiced, and worth every bite. Get the recipe →
Easy No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake
Creamy pumpkin cheesecake that skips the oven entirely. Make it ahead and let the fridge do the work before the big meal. Get the recipe →
Easy Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
Soft pumpkin bars under a thick layer of cream cheese frosting. Bake them in one pan and watch the whole thing disappear. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Breads, Muffins & Rolls
Easy Pumpkin Bread with Streusel
A moist pumpkin loaf topped with cinnamon streusel that bakes up crackly and sweet. It slices like a dream with your morning coffee. Get the recipe →
Caramel Swirl Pumpkin Bread
Pumpkin bread with ribbons of caramel swirled right through the batter. Every slice is a little gooey in the best way. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Spice Monkey Bread
Gooey pull apart monkey bread coated in pumpkin spice and cinnamon glaze. Set it out and watch hands reach in from every direction. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Muffins with Cream Cheese (Starbucks Copycat)
Bakery style pumpkin muffins with a cream cheese center, just like the coffee shop. Skip the drive through and make a dozen at home. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Cornbread Muffins
Tender cornbread muffins with a pumpkin twist, a little sweet and a little savory. They belong right next to a big bowl of chili. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Muffins with Oats
One bowl pumpkin oat muffins from my friend Rachel over at Galley Bites. They freeze beautifully, so you bake once and pull them out all month. Get the recipe →
30 Minute Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
Soft pumpkin cinnamon rolls with sweet frosting, ready in half an hour. No yeast and no waiting on a cozy weekend morning. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Pies & Pastries
Easy Pumpkin Slab Pie (Sheet Pan Pumpkin Pie)
Pumpkin pie baked on a sheet pan so there is a slice for everyone. The go to when you are feeding a whole crowd on Thanksgiving. Get the recipe →
Mini Pumpkin Pies in a Muffin Tin
All the pumpkin pie flavor baked into cute personal size portions. Great for parties, with no messy slicing. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Hand Pies with Cinnamon Sugar
Flaky hand pies filled with spiced pumpkin and rolled in cinnamon sugar. Pumpkin pie you can hold in one hand. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Marshmallow Filling
Two soft pumpkin cookies sandwiched around a fluffy marshmallow filling. A lunchbox treat that grownups sneak too. Get the recipe →
Easy Pumpkin Danish with Cream Cheese
Flaky danish with a pumpkin cream cheese center, made with easy shortcuts. They look like the bakery and taste even better warm. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Drinks
Copycat Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte
The famous fall latte made right in your own kitchen, topped with whipped cream and spice. Save yourself the line and the receipt. Get the recipe →
Copycat Iced Pumpkin Spice Latte
A cold, creamy pumpkin spice latte over ice for the warmer fall afternoons. All the cozy flavor without the coffee shop price. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew (Starbucks Copycat)
Smooth cold brew topped with a fluffy pumpkin cream layer. It tastes like the coffee shop and costs a whole lot less. Get the recipe →
Pumpkin Dips & No-Bake Treats
Pumpkin Cheese Ball (Sweet Dessert Cheese Ball)
A sweet dessert cheese ball shaped and drizzled to look like a little pumpkin. Serve it with vanilla wafers and graham crackers and let people scoop. Get the recipe →
Easy Pumpkin Dip with Cream Cheese
A creamy pumpkin dip that comes together in minutes for apple slices, pretzels, and cookies. The easiest thing to bring to a fall get together. Get the recipe →
Save These Pumpkin Recipes
Pin this roundup so every pumpkin recipe is one tap away all season long, and if you make one for your family, leave a comment on the recipe and tell us which one earned a permanent spot in your fall rotation. From our kitchen to your table!
