Oh-So-Pretty Pumpkin Cake Recipes for Fall

Recipe: Marbled Pumpkin Praline Cake

This cake is a gorgeous combination of pumpkin batter, cream cheese batter, pecan-praline filling, and spiced whipped cream. You're welcome.

Recipe: Pumpkin Cheesecake

One of the showstopping features of this cake is the crust. We used a combination of chocolate and cinnamon graham crackers to create the golden ombre effect. Plus, it tastes amazing. This is the easiest cheesecake recipe you'll make all year.

Recipe: Pumpkin Roll

This dessert is the best of both worlds, with a moist pumpkin cake rolled into an indulgent spiral alongside a smooth cream cheese-peanut butter filling. This is a fantastic make-ahead dessert, and it can feed a crowd. We like to garnish this autumnal roll with chocolate-dipped pecans for an extra special touch.

Recipe: Pumpkin Spice-Heath Cake

This might just be the most beloved of our pumpkin cake recipes. It's the ultimate cozy indulgence, with a perfect balance of sweetness and spice that is the season's calling card. The best part? The cake is built from a boxed spice cake mix, which gives you just enough of a shortcut so that you can focus on the embellishment, namely crumbling the toffee bits and blending the sweet, spiced cream cheese frosting.

Recipe: Cranberry-Apple-Pumpkin Bundt

Three favorite fall flavors combine in this beloved Bundt cake. Cranberry, apple, and pumpkin, all in a beautiful Bundt? It's a win-win-win for the dessert table.

Recipe: Pumpkin Crisp

This is the perfect dessert to feed a crowd at dinner. This seasonal crisp is the utterly irresistible combination of moist cake, sweet pumpkin, and crunchy pecans. With only eight essential ingredients, this recipe couldn't be easier to make—or more delicious after dinner, for a midday snack, or as a midnight nibble.

Recipe: Pumpkin-Pecan Cheesecake

Heading to a dinner party this fall? This is the dessert you should take with you. It's a pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and cheesecake hybrid that will intrigue and delight. Add the optional praline topping to make it a real showstopper.

Recipe: Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes

Instead of standing over the sideboard cutting slices for each family member, serve individual desserts for adorable presentation and easy serving.

Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Cake

You'll be amazed at how moist white cake and pumpkin pie meld into one dreamy dessert that's only missing a dollop of fresh whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Recipe: Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake

Is there anything your Instant Pot can't do? Free up valuable oven space this Thanksgiving and let your favorite mini appliance handle dessert.

Recipe: Pumpkin Cake

With this layer cake, you won't fuss over getting the frosting just right. It looks beautiful with spiced whipped cream spread between the layers and on top for a "naked" look. Sprinkle a little fresh nutmeg on top, and voila!

Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes

These "exceptionally soft" cupcakes are an easy way to make a portable fall treat everyone will love, and you'll be obsessed with the pumpkin-cream cheese frosting.

Recipe: Layered Pumpkin Cheesecake

With this dessert mashup recipe, you can satisfy the pumpkin pie and cheesecake lovers at your holiday feast.

Recipe: Pumpkin Dump Cake

The beauty of a dump cake is in the name—you literally dump a few simple ingredients into a pan, bake it, and you've got a decadent dessert. This fall dessert is one of our favorite ways to transform a box of cake mix.

Recipe: Praline-Pumpkin Torte

We first published this layered beauty in 2001, and there's a reason we keep going back to it almost 20 years later. Praline lovers will swoon over these cake layers with praline crusts.

Recipe: Pumpkin Crunch Cake

Instead of stressing out about decorating an extravagant layer cake, make this rich one-layer cake that's covered in a hefty slathering of pumpkin cream cheese frosting and sprinkled with a spiced cookie crumble with toasted pumpkin seeds.

Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Battenberg

This beautiful cake is like a present for your table, but the real surprise is the multi-colored sponge cake layers once you cut it open.

Recipe: Pumpkin Cheesecake Tart with Honey Swiss Meringue

A toasted pecan crust is a festive base for this multi-layer dessert that's definitely photo worthy. One of the best parts about this recipe is that you can prepare it up to Step 6 the night before to get a head start for Thanksgiving.

Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Magic Cake

If you love a baking project, you have to make this layered dessert this fall. Inspired by a Mexican dessert called "impossible flan," this luscious cake is beautiful on a sideboard.

Recipe: Pumpkin Layer Cake with Caramel-Cream Cheese Frosting

Not only is this pumpkin spice cake from New Orleans food blogger Joy Wilson delicious, but the ribbons of caramel in the frosting make it absolutely gorgeous.

Recipe: Pumpkin-Spice Bundt with Brown Sugar Icing and Candied Pecans

When in doubt, we can always rely on our Bundt pan for a pretty dessert that won't require intricate decorating. A drizzle of homemade brown sugar icing and a sprinkle of candied pecans take this pumpkin spice cake from everyday to special occasion.