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Now, These Are Some Festively Delicious Muffins!

My sister cannot stand pumpkin. For her, fall is such an awful recipe season – everything you see online and in the magazines seem to be pumpkin this, pumpkin that.

So during fall I won’t even try to make her taste anything with pumpkin in it! I know she would hate it, just thinking about it – even if she liked the taste. But I like to save some of my pumpkin harvest to keep trying new recipes later on in the winter. And this is one of the recipes I used to completely surprise my sister. She loved the muffins so much she almost didn’t believe there was pumpkin involved!

These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins come with a delicious Walnut Streusel and will do nicely for most any occasion. Change things up by trying different frostings or glazes. These bite-sized sweet treats can be prepped and baked in just 45 minutes! How’s that for a perfect dessert for your next special dinner!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Oh Sweet Day

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Quick tip: Instead of the streusel topping, you could use your favorite frosting.

This Toffee Apple Cheesecake recipe puts that classic caramel apple flavor in creamy, delicious cheesecake form. It’s easy enough to make for yourself at home, and with the optional garnishes it looks (and tastes) wonderful enough to serve even at formal gatherings. It shouldn’t be much of a secret, at this point: I love cheesecakes of all flavors. And I love the smell and flavor of apples and caramel, particularly in autumn. This cheesecake really isn’t all that difficult to put together, either.

My favorite cheesecake used to be strawberry. It’s a classic, it’s fresh, and I don’t think I could ever get tired of it. But sometimes you just come across another interesting recipe that you want to try – in this case it was a huge success! This recipe will definitely be stored in my box of favorites.

Recipe and photo courtesy of Recipe.com

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Quick tip: Use any nuts for this delicious cheesecake.

If you like apple, nuts, and cream cheese filling, you’ll love this Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake! You could probably have the cake without it, but I think that that praline frosting really puts this cake over the top. And all of that cinnamon and apple really smelled lovely while I was baking this – the perfect flavors for the holiday season!

For having such a rich flavor, this cake certainly is rather moist and buttery – and rather well balanced. Sure, a little of this cake goes a long way, unless you have brought a really hungry sweet tooth with you, but nothing is out of place here. It has a really great flavor for autumn and the holidays. Do use a 14-cup bundt pan if you have one; it will fit into a 12-cup one but only barely so. And while you’re at it, why not make two and save the other one for later (just make sure you hide it well…)

Recipe and photo courtesy of Baked By Rachel

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Quick tip: Use store-bought frosting to make this cake even faster – it will taste amazing even if you don’t use frosting at all!

If you are in a pumpkin dessert sort of mood but want to go in something other than the pumpkin pie direction, this Pumpkin Spice Cake recipe is a good option. It’s moist, buttery, and not too difficult to put together, despite being entirely from scratch. I do enjoy the flavor of pumpkin now and then, but there’s only so much in the way of pumpkin pie and pumpkin soup that I can handle in any short period of time. Throwing it into a cake, especially such a moist and spicy cake, makes for a nice alternative.

There have been times when I’ve been pulling my hair, trying to find a great cake recipe to make a nice dessert for a family dinner. I’ve tried them all – chocolate, yellow cake, with and without frosting… All very nice and tasty, but it wasn’t until I tried this cake that I knew I had hit the jackpot!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Divas Can Cook

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Quick tip: This cake tastes even better the next day!

If you like tropical flavors, such as pineapple and coconut, you’ll love this Coconut Preacher Cake. For something with such flavor and such a nice blend of textures, it’s amazingly simple to throw together. I have made this several times since I found the recipe – and it never fails!

The story I’ve heard is, the preacher cake got its name because it was something that you could whip up in a jiffy with ingredients on hand when you found out at the last minute that the preacher was coming over to visit. (Your well-meaning but absent-minded spouse forgot to tell you until the last minute, I’m guessing). In any event, I can see how this would be a harried homemaker’s go-to dessert: it’s moist and sweet, it has a nice mix of textures – and seriously, is there anything you can’t do with a simple cream cheese frosting? I call it a quick, easy, yummy win!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Nutmeg and Koko

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Quick tip: If you’re in a hurry, use store-bought frosting to save time.

This Pumpkin Gingersnap Icebox Cake is an easy-t0-make dessert with just the right balance of creaminess, sweetness, and spiciness for fall and winter – and you don’t even have to turn your oven on! I do love my rich and decadent cake recipes, but sometimes, those lighter, simpler creations really hit the spot. This icebox cake is soft-textured, moist, and full of those aromatic “pie spice” flavors that everyone loves so much about the colder seasons.

This cake has quickly become our family favorite. Whenever we’re having a family gathering, I’m asked to bring “that amazing pumpkin cake” – and no matter how much I make, it will always be gone in a matter of minutes! I have learned to save a piece for myself before serving it to others… Otherwise I wouldn’t even stand a chance!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Five Heart Home

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Quick tip: If using a very thin gingersnap, you might consider using a double-layer of cookies for each layer of this cake.

If you like cheesecake and like red velvet cake, you will love this beautiful marriage of the two: the Red Velvet Cheesecake. It’s a decadent blend of textures and flavors that is sure to make your sweet tooth really happy. Wow, this looks so festive and tastes even better! Many people probably would save this treat for the holidays, but with the weather already turning cooler, I just couldn’t resist giving this recipe a try. And boy, am I glad that I did! It’s two of my favorite types of cake, beautifully layered into one.

The mid layer can be deceiving – for someone taking a quick look at this cake, it may look like cream cheese frosting. But it isn’t! It’s the delicious baked cheesecake in between the gorgeous red velvet layers that makes this cake so extra special. Once you have a taste, you will keep going for one more bite!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

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Quick tip: The cheesecake layer can be baked and frozen up to several weeks in advance.