When you think about fall baking, what do you imagine? We imagine cozying up on our screened porches on a weekend morning, wrapped under a plaid blanket, holding a cup of hot coffee, enjoying the steaming slice of coffee cake that we just pulled from the oven. Perhaps you imagine gathering around the family dinner table with a large pot of hearty chili and a basket of fresh, homemade dinner rolls. Whatever fall baking recipe you choose, these delicious bread recipes will suit the occasion. Coffee cakes coated in sugary glazes and smothered in rich caramel, icebox dinner rolls perfect for sopping up Thanksgiving gravy, classic poppy seed muffins, moist banana bread recipes, and countless of fluffy dinner rolls recipes – these bread recipes and baking recipes are the soul-soothing and heart-warming classic Southern comfort desserts, just like your grandma used to bake. That is, as long as your grandma baked Bananas Foster Coffee with warm Vanilla-Rum Sauce.
Caramelized Apple Toffee Muffins
Recipe: Caramelized Apple Toffee Muffins
These chewy, crunchy, oh-so-good apple muffins can be enjoyed from breakfast to dessert.
Apple Muffins
Recipe: Apple Muffins
Cozy up with warm apple cider and one of these tender apple muffins to kick off fall the right way.
Apple Crumb Muffins
Recipe: Apple Crumb Muffins
You’ll savor every last bit of the sweet crumb topping on these classic apple muffins.
Sugar-and-Spice Apple Muffins
Recipe: Sugar-and-Spice Apple Muffins
These sugar-and-spice apple muffins are soft, tasty, and remind us of an apple-cake donut or a fall churro.
Apple Cider Doughnuts
Recipe: Apple Cider Doughnuts
Crystal blue skies, cool breezes, and falling leaves are all definite signs that it is apple-picking time. For many, a trip to the orchard is an all day event, returning home with baskets of apples and plans for pies, cakes, and breads. Next time you visit an orchard or a local farmstand, save one or two apples and try this recipe. These lightly spiced doughnuts are extremely moist from the combination of apple butter, cider, and grated apples. Be sure and use apple cider, and not apple juice. Fresh cider is raw apple juice that has not undergone a filtration process to remove coarse particles of pulp or sediment, so you will need to shake the jug before measuring.
Caramel Apple Coffee Cake
Recipe: Caramel Apple Coffee Cake
This cake is down-home delicious and so easy you won't believe you started from scratch.
Gluten-Free Banana Bread
Recipe: Gluten-Free Banana Bread
Brown rice flour and sorghum flour (in the organic section of supermarkets) make a bread so tender, you won't believe it's gluten-free. For best results, use a light-colored pan. Or, turn your dark pan into a shiny one by wrapping the outside of it with heavy-duty aluminum foil.
New Orleans Calas
Recipe: New Orleans Calas
The Calas Women, as they were called, peddled these hot breakfast fritters—whose name comes from the African word "kárá"—each morning in the French Quarter. The street vendors have vanished, so we honor them here with a classic rice-dough recipe too delicious to ever disappear.
Icebox Dinner Rolls
Recipe: Icebox Dinner Rolls
You always need a good dinner roll recipe, and this is especially true on Thanksgiving when you know you can’t leave one single drop of gravy on your plate—it might be impolite. This recipe is traditionally Southern, so it uses shortening, which gives these biscuits their fluff, richness, and flavor. Brushed with melted butter before baking, these will emerge from your oven a gorgeous golden-brown. They will smel so delicious and look so divine they may not even make it to the table before being devoured. This coveted dinner roll recipe is one you'll want to keep in the family.
Cooking Video: Icebox Dinner Rolls
Caramel Apple Fantans
Recipe: Caramel Apple Fantans
Use any firm cooking apple, such as 'Jonagold' or 'Honeycrisp,' or a combo for extra flavor and texture.
Poppy Seed-Ginger Muffins
Recipe: Poppy Seed-Ginger Muffins
To thin the glaze, add more orange juice.
Rosemary Focaccia Bread
Recipe: Rosemary Focaccia Bread
Pair this flavorful herb bread with Turnip Green Pesto for a mouth-watering appetizer.
Sally Lunn
Recipe: Sally Lunn
The no-knead recipe came from England, but Southerners have been starry-eyed for the brioche-like loaf for decades.
Sorghum-Oat Bread
Recipe: Sorghum-Oat Bread
Be sure the oat mixture has cooled before mixing with the yeast.
Sweet Potato Coffee Cake with Caramel Glaze
Recipe: Sweet Potato Coffee Cake with Caramel Glaze
Sweet potato, orange zest, and ground cinnamon offer flavors of the season in this morning treat. Top it all off with a drizzle of Caramel Glaze.
Angel Biscuits
Recipe: Angel Biscuits
Nestle these yeast biscuits snug together in the pan and they'll rise even higher when baked. You don't have to use all the dough at once—refrigerate in an airtight container up to 5 days.
Ham-and-Swiss Sticky Buns
Recipe: Ham-and-Swiss Sticky Buns
Stuff the dough deep into the muffin cups so that the tops rise into a cheesy dome while baking.
Bananas Foster Coffee Cake with Vanilla-Rum Sauce
Recipe: Bananas Foster Coffee Cake with Vanilla-Rum Sauce
Substitute extra cream for rum in the sauce, if you prefer.
Blueberry-Lemon Muffins
Recipe: Blueberry-Lemon Muffins
Sprinkle the tops of the glazed muffins with coarse sugar to add texture and a little sparkle.
Cranberry-Orange Muffins
Recipe: Cranberry-Orange Muffins
Sprinkle the tops of the glazed muffins with coarse sugar to add texture and a little sparkle.
Our Favorite Buttermilk Biscuit
Recipe: Our Favorite Buttermilk Biscuit
Our Test Kitchen baked hundreds of biscuits until we landed on our all-time favorite, no-fail recipe that will impress new cooks and old pros alike.
Graham Cracker Rolls
Recipe: Graham Cracker Rolls
"This roll recipe was discovered by my wonderful mother, who was an amazing cook and loved to try new recipes. It's still a favorite with my family because of the flavor that the graham cracker crumbs give the rolls." —SL reader Allison Fogle
Grape Focaccia
Recipe: Grape Focaccia
Don't be intimidated by homemade bread; even a beginner can master this simple baking sheet focaccia. It's an effortlessly gorgeous dish for entertaining, and the unexpected combination of sweet and savory flavors will impress. As an appetizer, serve the warm slab of bread, sliced, on a large cutting board with a few wedges of your favorite cheese. Try muscadines or figs in place of the grapes. For leftovers, spread the focaccia with peanut butter for a fresh, sophisticated spin on PB&J.
Herbed Potato Flake Rolls
Recipe: Herbed Potato Flake Rolls
Like magic, packaged potato flakes give these fluffy beauties a lighter-than-air texture that makes them perfect for sopping up gravy. Trust us, they go fast.
Sweet Potato Biscuits
Recipe: Sweet Potato Biscuits
Serve these from-scratch biscuits warm with butter, honey, and jam, along with two platters—one with seared slices of country ham and pepper jelly and another with deli ham and pimiento cheese.
