Fall cookie recipes are all about warm spices, brown butter, pumpkin, maple, cranberry, and toffee. I rounded up seven of my best fall cookies in one place. No chocolate chip cookies sneaking onto the list. Every cookie here tastes like autumn.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are soft, cakey, and loaded with chocolate chips and warm pumpkin spice. Pumpkin puree keeps them moist without making them dense. These are the first cookies I bake when the temperature drops.
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies
Soft and chewy oatmeal cookies with diced Granny Smith apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a sweet vanilla icing drizzle. The apple pieces stay tender and the icing sets firm on top. These taste like an apple crisp in cookie form.
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
White chocolate cranberry cookies are buttery and sweet with bursts of tart dried cranberries and creamy white chocolate chips. The red and white is festive enough for holiday baking but I make them all fall.
Toffee Pecan Cookies
Toffee pecan cookies are crisp at the edges and chewy in the middle, with crunchy toffee bits and toasted pecans throughout. Brown butter takes them over the top.
Brown Butter Toffee Cookies
Brown butter toffee cookies are rich and nutty from browned butter, loaded with toffee bits that caramelize in the oven. No nuts, just toffee.
Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Pumpkin sugar cookies are soft, pillowy sugar cookies with pumpkin spice baked right into the dough and rolled in cinnamon sugar. No frosting needed. The cinnamon sugar crust does the work.
Peanut Butter Maple Cookies
Peanut butter maple cookies are thick and chewy with real maple syrup in the dough and a crosshatch pattern pressed into the top. Maple and peanut butter are not the obvious pair, but they work.
Browse all my cookie recipes for more. For fall baking beyond cookies, try my pumpkin and chocolate chip bread or my pumpkin spice latte cupcakes.
Dana is an experienced recipe creator who crafts easy and delicious recipes for all levels of home cooks.
Her recipes range from classic comfort foods to healthy and nutritious meals, and she is always on the lookout for new and exciting ways to bring flavor and variety to the table.
Yummy! These cookies look super delicious, especially the Mama’s Monster cookie recipe! I must try these!
They all sound so good! I’m a sucker for a chewy oatmeal raisin though!
I have been living your week of cookies! My favorite is still Chocolate Chip!
Those Oatmeal Butterscotch cookies!! All of these looks so yummy. Fall baking is my favorite. ?
I love cookies! All types of cookies! I’ll have to make some of these today