25 Best Fall Cookie Recipes
Discover your new favorite fall cookie with this collection of our best recipes: pumpkin, maple, apple, festive Halloween treats, and more!
The best part of the fall season is cozy kitchen filled with the incredible smells of freshly baked cookies. This collection of fall cookie recipes celebrates everything we love about autumn, from the spicy sweetness of pumpkin cookies to the rich, earthy flavors of maple and apple.
Whether you’re planning a Halloween party, preparing for a festive fall gathering, or just craving a delicious homemade treat for the season, you’ll find the perfect cookie recipe here!
Pumpkin Cookie Recipes
Pumpkin lovers rejoice! I’ve got lots of yummy pumpkin cookie recipes for every palate! From the easiest of cake mix cookies, to from-scratch chocolate chip pumpkin cookies, your pumpkin season is going to be full of the best fall cookies! So grab your pumpkin spice latte and a whisk and let’s get baking!
3-Ingredient Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies – You’ve never made a pumpkin cookie this easy! These thick, fluffy cookies bake up like muffin tops and are made with just three ingredients: real pumpkin, cake mix, and chocolate chips. The perfect pumpkin spice treat!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies – Get ready for your new favorite fall cookie! With real pumpkin baked right into the batter, these chocolate chip cookies are irresistibly soft, moist, and chewy. It’s the perfect texture for a chocolate chip cookie, with a delicious hint of pumpkin and warm spices.
Iced Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies – Two fall favorites in one cookie! This simple recipe perfectly combines real pumpkin with a classic oatmeal cookie for a dessert that’s perfect for fall! Cozy fall spices, pumpkin, oats and molasses, topped with a sweet and spicy cinnamon glaze.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies – It’s a cookie and a cheesecake all in one! These incredible pumpkin cheesecake cookies feature a chewy pumpkin spice cookie dough wrapped around a creamy cheesecake filling and rolled in cinnamon sugar.
Pumpkin Cake Mix Cookies – You won’t believe how easy these are to make! Just two ingredients—a box of cake mix and a can of pumpkin puree—are all you need to bake up a batch of these soft and flavorful pumpkin cookies. The perfect no-fuss fall treat!
Soft Baked Pumpkin Cookies – Is there a more perfect fall flavor duo than pumpkin and cream cheese? These scratch-made fluffy pumpkin cookies are topped with a decadent cream cheese frosting that makes every bite pure fall bliss.
Pumpkin Spice Peanut Butter Cookies – Ready to be amazed? These pumpkin spice peanut butter cookies are a flavor combination you never knew you needed! This unique recipe adds a hint of warm cinnamon and pumpkin spice to create a chewy, flavorful treat.
Chocolate Avocado Pumpkin Cookies – Fudgy avocado cookies are studded with pumpkin spice morsels, for a healthier spin on fall cookies! You can’t even taste the avocado!
Halloween Cookie Recipes
Blood Splatter Cookies – This recipe is a guilty pleasure to make! Flinging frosting is highly encouraged to create these terrifyingly fun Halloween cookies. They’re a delicious and creative baking project perfect for spooky season and sure to stand out at any Halloween party!
Nutter Butter Ghosts & Mummies – Dip Nutter Butter cookies in white chocolate to make spooky little ghosts and mummies!
Halloween Sprinkle Cookies – If you love all things Halloween then you’ve got to try these colorful Halloween cookies! This simple butter cookie recipe is jazzed up with Halloween colors, sprinkles, and white chocolate chips for a treat that’s spooky, festive, and absolutely delicious!
“Hocus Pocus” Halloween Cookies – Get ready for a spooky surprise! These rich and fudge-y chocolate Halloween cookies are filled with M&Ms and a gooey “witches brew” ooze (frosting). They’re the perfect treat for your next Halloween celebration!
Pillsbury Halloween Cookies – All you need are two types of store-bought cookie dough to make these festive Halloween chocolate chip cookies! This was THE viral TikTok Halloween recipe of 2024!
Halloween Monster Cookie Bars – Buttery blondies meet monster cookies in this one-of-a-kind Halloween treat! These cookie bars are loaded with colorful candy, topped with spooky candy eyeballs, and are a great way to use up all that leftover Halloween candy!
Spooky Slime Cookies – Bright green meringue cookies are decorated to look like Halloween monsters!
Spiderweb Cookies – We took a family favorite – chocolate covered peanut butter crackers – and decorated them with white chocolate spiderwebs for Halloween. No oven needed!
Jack Skellington OREOs – Dip Oreo cookies in white chocolate and decorate with dark chocolate to look like Jack Skellington.
Halloween Nutter Butters – Looking for a fun, no-bake Halloween treat? These Nutter Butter ghosts and bats are super cute, incredibly easy to make, and a great way to get the kids involved in the kitchen!
Cute & Easy Halloween Spider Cookies – Transform easy sugar cookies into a cute and spooky Halloween treat by topping them with candy spider decorations!
More Thanksgiving & Fall Cookie Recipes
If you’re looking for fall cookies that AREN’T pumpkin flavored, we’ve got you covered with apple, maple, and more!
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies – Your house is about to smell heavenly while these cookies are baking! These apple cinnamon oatmeal cookies combine two of the coziest fall flavors, creating a sweet and spicy treat that will remind you of a classic apple pie.
Maple Brown Sugar Cookies – These chewy brown sugar cookies are made with real maple syrup and topped with a sweet, three-ingredient maple icing. It’s the perfect combination of classic fall flavors.
2-Ingredient Thanksgiving Cookies – These 2-ingredient Thanksgiving chocolate chip cookies are made with refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough and Pillsbury Turkey Shapes Sugar Cookie Dough. All you have to do is assemble and bake!
Snickerdoodle Cookies – A soft and pillowy cinnamon spiced cookie, with a crunchy cinnamon sugar coating. A fall staple!
Keto Pumpkin Cookies – Pumpkin season is here, and now you can enjoy it guilt-free! These thick, fluffy pumpkin cookies are sugar-free and keto-friendly, topped with a rich cream cheese icing for a decadent, low-carb treat.
Keto Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies – A low-carb fall cookie that tastes like a total splurge! These delicious Keto Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies are full of fall flavor and the perfect soft and chewy texture.
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