Healthy Recipes Healthy Seasonal Recipes Healthy Fall Recipes Healthy Fall Baking & Dessert Recipes 16 Vintage Fall Desserts Just Like Grandma Used to Make By EatingWell Editors EatingWell Editors Facebook Instagram Twitter Articles by "EatingWell Editors" are a collaborative effort from our in-house team. Sometimes, articles are updated by a number of writers and editors over time to keep the information as up-to-date and comprehensive as possible. The EatingWell team includes industry-leading food and nutrition editors, registered dietitians, expert Test Kitchen staffers and designers who produce award-winning journalism, delicious recipes and engaging content. Our work has earned more than 50 national and international awards for writing, editing, art direction, creative marketing and publishing excellence EatingWell's Editorial Guidelines Published on September 2, 2021 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos When the leaves change color and the air gets crisper, all we want to do is settle in with a cozy treat and a cup of coffee. These recipes are healthy takes on the autumn classics we love, from custardy pumpkin pies to apple crisps and seasonal cakes. Recipes like our Cinnamon Swirl Apple Pie and Sweet Potato Pie with Cream Cheese Swirl are delicious desserts that will satisfy your sweet tooth every time. 01 of 16 Sweet Potato Pie with Cream Cheese Swirl View Recipe This creamy sweet potato pie recipe is seasoned like a pumpkin pie with plenty of cinnamon and nutmeg and gets nice ginger flavor from the gingersnap crust. For the best results, roast sweet potatoes in the oven; in a pinch, microwave them instead. 02 of 16 Apple-Oatmeal Cookies View Recipe Brie Passano These healthy apple cookies made with oats, shredded apples and brown sugar make snack time enjoyable for everybody. 03 of 16 Deep-Dish Apple Pie View Recipe Ken Burris With all that delicious fruit an apple pie should be healthy, but the truth is a slice can have as much as 750 calories and 30 grams of fat. For the most part, the culprit is the crust. We use whole-wheat pastry flour to add fiber and lower the saturated fat by replacing some of the butter with canola oil. The brown sugar-sweetened filling in this pie is made with two kinds of apples for the perfect balance. A slice has half the calories of a typical version and only 10 grams of fat--sweet! 04 of 16 Frozen Pumpkin Mousse Pie View Recipe While pumpkin pie deserves respect as a Thanksgiving icon, it's fun to shake up tradition. Surprise your family and friends with a frozen pie this year--it just might become one of their holiday favorites. No need to let them know how easy it is. 05 of 16 Cider-Sweetened Apple Pie View Recipe The Voorhes Reducing already-sweet apple cider into a syrup adds concentrated flavor to this pie and sweetens it with less than half the added sugar of a typical apple pie recipe. 06 of 16 Cinnamon Swirl Apple Pie View Recipe Instead of topping your apple pie with a full crust, cover the dough in cinnamon sugar, roll it up and slice it like cinnamon rolls to make beautiful cinnamon swirls to top the pie. The fragrant cinnamon bun-like topping makes homemade apple pie even more special! 07 of 16 Baked Cinnamon Apple Slices View Recipe Caitlin Bensel These baked cinnamon apple slices have just the right level of tenderness and bite and a gooey apple caramel that forms at the bottom of the pan. Enjoy this healthy dessert spooned over ice cream, with biscuits or served over yogurt—the options with these are endless! 08 of 16 Pumpkin Roll Cake with Pecan-Cream Cheese Filling View Recipe Many pumpkin roll cakes have the starring ingredient only in the cake, which is a missed opportunity to enjoy all the flavor, plus you end up with leftover canned puree sitting in your fridge. Here, the remaining pumpkin is whipped with cream cheese, pecans and crystallized ginger for a tangy filling. 09 of 16 Cranberry Buttermilk Pie View Recipe This custard filling is what takes this buttermilk pie recipe to the next level. It tastes like a panna cotta with a bit of attitude from the tang of the buttermilk and a generous sprinkling of cranberries on top. 10 of 16 Carrot Cake with Candied Carrot Curls View Recipe Our 30th anniversary deserved a cake, and what cake better represents EatingWell than one with vegetables? While many homemade carrot cakes include pineapple in the batter, we made a jammy filling with it instead to tuck between the layers. 11 of 16 Pumpkin Dump Cake View Recipe This pudding-like pumpkin cake has a luscious cream cheese swirl amid the spiced pumpkin layer. Organic cake mix is "dumped" on top, then the cake is smothered with butter. Once baked and cooled, the mix forms a sweet and crispy topping. 12 of 16 Apple Pie Cake View Recipe This easy apple pie cake, with a layer of tender apples cooked with brown sugar and cinnamon and topped with a crunchy oat streusel, is perfect as a fall dessert, or for breakfast with a cup of coffee or tea. 13 of 16 Slow-Cooker Apple Crisp View Recipe Let your Crock-Pot do the work for this easy slow-cooker apple crisp. It tastes just like a classic apple crisp, with the apple combination adding a sweet and tart balance in each bite. It's sure to become a new fall favorite. 14 of 16 Apple-Crisp-Stuffed Baked Apples View Recipe This apple dessert marries the best parts of apple crisp with a baked apple to make an adorable and tasty sweet treat. Cooking an apple crisp inside an apple is a wonderful treat in summer with a scoop of ice cream, or in fall after an apple-picking trip. 15 of 16 Cream Cheese Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel View Recipe This riff on the Thanksgiving favorite combines a traditional pumpkin pie filling with swirls of sweetened cream cheese. And since it's only Thanksgiving once a year, we've topped it all off with a buttery spiced-pecan topping. This easy pie recipe will please anyone at your table this holiday. 16 of 16 Brown Butter Sweet Potato Pie View Recipe Some sweet potato pies call for boiling these root vegetables, but here they're roasted to concentrate their flavor. This helps the earthiness come through, which we enhance with the nuttiness of browned butter. The overall effect is a sweet potato pie that's more complex and a little less sweet. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit