13 Fall Cakes Every Southerner Should Know How to Make

Recipe: Apple-Spice Bundt Cake with Caramel Frosting

Celebrate our favorite autumn spices with this fragrant and super moist apple cake. Ideal for festive parties and tailgate events, this is also a great cake to keep around when your family just wants a slice of something sweet.

Recipe: Butter Toffee-Pecan Layer Cake

If it is your turn to host the supper club, surprise your guests with this showstopper of a dessert. The brown butter frosting elevates this cake from good to great.

Recipe: Triple-Layer Chocolate-Caramel Cake

If there was ever a cake that could be described as masculine, this is it. The creamy, chocolate-y ganache is further enhanced with a nip of bourbon, and the flavors of the cake layers are deepened by the addition of strong coffee.

Recipe: Vanilla Bean-Brownie Ripple Pound Cake

It is always the right time to enjoy a slice of pound cake. This humble looking loaf cake reveals a delicious secret once it is sliced.

Recipe: Praline Layer Cake

The buttercream frosting in this recipe uses an old-fashioned method that yields delicious results. If you are a fan of pralines, this just might become your favorite cake.

Recipe: Caramel Cake

Every southern baker has a lineup of favorite fall cake recipes. We are betting most of them include a classic Caramel.

Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Battenberg

The first Battenberg cake was made to celebrate the marriage of Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, Princess Victoria, to husband Prince Louis of Battenberg. A Battenberg cake has two flavors of sponge cake with a layer of jam wrapped up in a thin layer of marzipan, like a present. When cut, the layers look like a two-colored checkered pattern

Recipe: Cinnamon Roulade with Roasted Apple-Cream Cheese Filling

This roulade will be a stunning and delicious finish to your meal. For a beautiful presentation, carefully follow the instructions for rolling the cake.

Recipe: Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Buttercream

Your favorite childhood sandwich finds new life as a banana cream-filled cupcake topped with peanut butter buttercream.

Recipe: Apple-Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

This cake is packed with all the fall flavors we love so well: cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, apples, and pecans.

Recipe: Caramel Apple Cake

This stunning fall cake looks elaborate but requires just 20 minutes of hands-on prep time.

Recipe: Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

Even if you don’t like mayonnaise, go ahead and give this recipe a try. We guarantee you will love this ultra-moist chocolate cake.

Recipe: Apple-Pecan Carrot Cake

We sandwiched a creamy caramel sauce between the layers of the cake, then topped it with an eye-catching crown of Mascarpone Frosting, swirls of Apple Cider Caramel Sauce, and a scattering of salty-sweet Spiced Pecans.