Autumn Baking Recipes to Try This Season

With autumn in full swing and the air turning cooler, it’s no surprise that online searches for warming bakes have soared. According to Google Trends, the past 30 days have seen a surge of over 5,000% in terms such as autumn baking recipes, pumpkin recipes, apple cake recipe, Halloween baking, fall recipes, quick baking recipes, best cookie recipes, cinnamon bun recipe, cinnamon rolls, gingerbread recipes, and apple recipes.

From spiced pumpkin to sweet apple, the flavours of the season are front and centre. Premium appliance brand Miele’s Easy Pumpkin Cookies and cast iron specialist STAUB’s Pumpkin Pecan Cake both highlight pumpkin at its best, while Dualit’s Apple Crumble is the perfect pudding for a crisp evening.

For families, Dualit’s Gingerbread Halloween Cookies double as a fun baking activity with little ones, while Miele’s Toffee Apple Cake is the ultimate showstopper for impressing dinner guests. And if you’re craving an indulgent afternoon pick-me-up, STAUB’s Apple Cinnamon Rolls are just the thing to enjoy with a cup of tea.

Below, discover the recipes behind these autumnal favourites.

Miele’s Easy Pumpkin Cookies

Recipe: Miele | Image: Getty

Ingredients

• 300g Plain flour
• 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Mixed spice
• ½ tsp Sea salt
• 250g Caster sugar
• 125g Unsalted butter, softened
• 250g Pumpkin purée or steamed pumpkin
• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 150g Icing sugar
• 50g Pumpkin seeds, chopped

Method

1. Combine flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, spices and salt in a medium bowl.
2. Using an electric whisk, cream the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add the pumpkin, egg and vanilla, whisking until smooth.
3. Fold in the dry ingredients, mix well, and chill the dough for 3–4 hours.
4. Preheat oven to 180°C fan.
5. Roll tablespoon-sized portions of dough into balls, coat in icing sugar, and decorate with pumpkin seeds.
6. Place on a lined baking tray, leaving space between each cookie, and bake for 12–14 minutes.
7. Cool on a wire rack. Keeps in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

Dualit’s Apple Crumble

Recipe & Image: Dualit

Ingredients

• 2 tins (390g) Apples
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice
• 200g Plain flour
• 100g Butter or margarine
• 75g Caster sugar
• 25g Demerara sugar

Method

1. Heat oven to 200°C/180°C fan. Place apples in a 20cm pie dish, drizzle with lemon juice.
2. Sift flour into a bowl, rub in butter until it resembles breadcrumbs.
3. Stir in caster sugar.
4. Spoon crumble mix over apples and sprinkle with demerara sugar.
5. Bake for 45 minutes until golden and bubbling.

STAUB’s Pumpkin Pecan Cake

Recipe & Image: STAUB

Ingredients

• 130g Pecan nuts
• 200g Flour
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 2 tsp Baking powder
• 4 Eggs
• 100ml Rapeseed oil
• 200g Brown sugar
• 8g Vanilla sugar
• 1 tsp 5-Spice powder
• ½ tsp Salt
• ½ tsp Ground ginger
• 200g Sugar syrup
• 300g Pumpkin purée
• 150g Chocolate chips
• Butter and flour for greasing

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200°C/180°C fan. Grease and flour a loaf tin.
2. Chop pecans. Mix flour, baking soda and baking powder.
3. In a blender, combine eggs, oil, sugars, spices and pumpkin. Gradually add flour mix.
4. Fold in pecans and chocolate chips. Pour into prepared tin.
5. Bake for 50–60 minutes, then cool before serving.

Dualit’s Gingerbread Halloween Cookies

Recipe & Image: Dualit

A fun activity for families—decorate spooky shapes like bats, pumpkins and ghosts.

Ingredients

• 350g Plain flour
• 150g Soft brown sugar
• 125g Salted butter
• 1 Egg
• 4 tbsp Golden syrup
• 1 tsp Ground ginger
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Mixed spice
• 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda

For the icing

• 150–200g Icing sugar
• Juice of ½ Lemon
• 2 tsp Dried egg white
• Food colouring gels
• Liquorice laces or ribbon

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan.
2. Mix dry ingredients. In another bowl, melt butter with syrup, cool slightly, stir in egg. Combine with dry mix to form dough. Chill 20 minutes.
3. Roll out dough and cut into Halloween shapes.
4. Bake for 7–10 minutes. While still soft, make holes for hanging with liquorice laces.
5. Decorate with coloured icing.

STAUB’s Apple Cinnamon Rolls

Recipe & Image: STAUB

Ingredients

• 500g Flour
• 7g Dry yeast
• 1 tbsp Sugar
• 50g Soft butter
• 250ml Milk
• 1 Egg

Filling

• 3 Apples, sliced
• 30g Butter
• 100g Brown sugar
• 2 tsp Cinnamon

Caramel sauce

• 100g Sugar
• 50g Butter
• 200ml Cream

Method

1. Make dough and let rise for 1 hour.
2. Sauté apples with butter and sugar until soft. Cool.
3. Roll out dough, sprinkle cinnamon sugar, spread apples, roll up and cut slices. Place in greased pan.
4. Bake at 200°C/180°C fan for 25–30 minutes.
5. Make caramel sauce and drizzle over rolls.

Miele’s Toffee Apple Cake

Recipe & Image: Miele

This showstopper combines spiced sponge, sticky apple filling and dazzling toffee apples.

Ingredients (abridged)

• Dark brown sugar, eggs, oil, grated apples, flour, spices, oats, sultanas, spiced rum, yoghurt
• For filling: butter, brown sugar, diced apples
• For frosting: butter, icing sugar, cream cheese, lemon zest
• For topping: mini toffee apples, apple crisps, gold leaf

Method

1. Make apple crisps overnight in a warming drawer.
2. Bake spiced sponge layers.
3. Prepare apple filling and cream cheese frosting.
4. Make toffee apples by dipping mini apples in sugar syrup.
5. Assemble layers with frosting and filling. Decorate with crisps, toffee apples and gold leaf.

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