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Fall Is The Season For Baking. These 18 Recipes Prove It.

Tis the season to bake.
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Taste Senior Editor, HuffPost

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Fall foods are the best foods. It’s during this season that our favorite comfort foods start to take the place of summer salads. Soups and stews become lunch. And even ice cream flavors get a seasonal makeover. But what fall is really best for ― when it comes to eats ― is all the baked goods.

Not only is fall a great time of year to crank up the oven ― there’s nothing like working by a warm oven on a crisp, cool day as you bake up something making your whole house smell amazing ― but the flavors that grace fall sweets are unparalleled. Apple, pumpkin and so much caramel, if that won’t get you baking we don’t know if anything will.

Here are the best baked goods recipes that’ll help fully enjoy the fall season:

1
Ombre Spice Cupcakes
Sally's Baking Addiction
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2
Harvest Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies With Salted Toasted Pepitas
Half Baked Harvest
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3
Pumpkin Crumb Cake Muffins
Sally's Baking Addiction
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4
Apple Slab Pie With Crumb Topping
Two Peas and their Pod
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5
Easy Chai Spiced Donut
Sally's Baking Addiction
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6
Sweet Potato Pie Cinnamon Rolls with Butter Whipped Meringue Frosting
Half Baked Harvest
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7
Vegan Apple Pie Crumble Bars
Minimalist Baker
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8
Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies
Two Peas and their Pod
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9
Super Moist Pumpkin Bread
Pinch of Yum
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10
Toasted Marshmallow, Quinoa And Cashew Butter Rice Krispie Treats
How Sweet It Is
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11
Salted Maple Apple Tarte Tatin With Vanilla Cream
Half Baked Harvest
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12
Salted Caramel Pretzel Crunch Bars
Sally's Baking Addiction
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13
Deep Dish Chocolate Chip Cookie With Caramel And Sea Salt
Pinch of Yum
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14
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies
Sally's Baking Addiction
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15
Salted Caramel Apple Cider Donuts
Half Baked Harvest
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16
Chocolate Stuffed Oatmeal Bars
How Sweet It Is
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17
Caramelized Pear And Hazelnut Crumble Tart
Half Baked Harvest
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18
Pumpkin S'mores Cupcakes
Something Swanky
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Before You Go

The Best Meal Prep Cookbooks
Vegan Meal Prep: A 5-Week Plan with 125 Ready-To-Go Recipes by Robin Asbell(01 of09)
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Prolific cookbook author Robin Asbell makes a good point in her introduction to this book: If you’ve ever eaten in a restaurant, you’ve eaten food that’s been prepped — it’s all been sliced, peeled, precooked and parcooked in advance, just waiting for your order to come in. Her point is that you can start eating like you’re at a restaurant every day, except you’ll be the chef in charge now. This all-vegan lineup of more than 125 recipes will be a handy reference for everyone from hesitant flexitarians to hardcore plant-based eaters. Check out lots of make-ahead items like wraps, smoothies and bowls, as well as plant-only “mac and cheese” with nutty crunch topping, tempeh banh mi and sweet potato chickpea cakes.

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The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook: One Grocery List. A Week of Meals. No Waste. by America’s Test Kitchen(02 of09)
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When the venerable American’s Test Kitchen decides that a trend has enough staying power to warrant a new cookbook, then you know meal prepping is the real deal. You’ll find 25 weekly plans that promise to minimize shopping and kitchen time. Consider making fast work of vegetables and grains during what they call a weekend “power hour” or prepping bulk pantry ingredients in a “pantry power hour.” Recipes include meatballs and lemon orzo with mint and dill, teriyaki stir-fried beef with green beans, herb-poached salmon with cucumber-dill salad and sun-dried tomato and white bean soup with parmesan crisps.

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Baby and Toddler Meal Prep Plan: Batch Cook a Week’s Nutritious Meals in Under 2 Hours by Keda Black(03 of09)
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The most visually inviting cookbook of the bunch, this book clearly has been written for stressed-out, sleep-deprived parents. The photography evokes a long, soothing Tasty video, all shot from above and all taking mise en place to new levels of organization. This cookbook thinks it all through for you, including shopping lists that have photos of each item, in case all you can manage is to bring the book to the market along with you and point. Black, a French food writer, offers up much more sophisticated choices than the strained beets of typical baby fare. This is more like “bébé” food, with recipes including baba ganoush, ratatouille, sea bream, lamb tagine and tuna niçoise.

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The Healthy Meal Prep Instant Pot Cookbook: No-Fuss Recipes for Nutritious, Ready-to-Go Meals by Carrie Forrest(04 of09)
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If you’ve already gone ahead and bought yourself that kitchen darling known by fans just as “the IP,” then you may have quickly run out of things to do with it after that first batch of chili. This book offers a number of recipe ideas that will allow you to batch prep in advance. There are tips for getting the most from the appliance, but there are no weekly plans, shopping lists or step-by-step instructions. That makes this book a good choice for someone who is experienced at prepping but new to the world of IP, as they’re sure to appreciate the super-speedy recipes for things like cooking a whole chicken, grains and beans in record time.

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Damn Delicious Meal Prep: 115 Easy Recipes for Low-Calorie, High-Energy Living by Chungah Rhee(05 of09)
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The woman behind the Damn Delicious blog found that meal prepping helped her get healthier, save time and lose weight — all while enjoying foods like pumpkin doughnuts, burrito bowls, breakfast croissant sandwiches and Mason jar lasagna. She offers up shopping lists and brief meal plans around the themes of kale, rainbow veggies, Mexican and Asian, and she swears by the way the built-in portion control of prepped meals can make it easier to eat more nutritiously. She also suggests getting friends in on your new meal planning commitment by setting up regular Sunday prep sessions as a group activity (she mentions mimosas).

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The Visual Guide to Easy Meal Prep: Save Time and Eat Healthy with over 75 Recipes by Erin Romeo(06 of09)
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Sharp may be the Meal Prep Queen, but Erin Romeo is known as @foodprepprincess on Instagram, so let the royal prep-jousting commence. This book offers up four different menu plans to follow: low-carb, gluten-free, vegetarian and dairy-free. Recipes include chicken and bacon club wraps, falafel bowls and fish tacos. She touts meal planning as a way to regain hours in your day, eliminate the need to multitask as you prepare meals and to be more present with the people around you.

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The Everything Plant-Based Meal Prep Cookbook by Diane K. Smith(07 of09)
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This book promises to help you create a plant-based diet that fills all your nutritional needs, with ways to mix and match ingredients so that food waste is reduced. There’s a two-week meal plan that includes breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snack and desserts, and recipes include black bean meatloaf, sheet pan ratatouille with creamy polenta, jackfruit enchiladas with green sauce and avocado brownies.

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Meal Prep In An Instant by Becca Ludlum(08 of09)
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Beautifully designed and loaded with tons of helpful photos, this book would be a great first-step choice for someone with an Instant Pot, a desire to prep meals and the need for some gentle hand-holding. Written by the creator of the My Crazy Good Life blog, this informative book includes seven weekly meal plans, each with four primary recipes, three alternate recipes and one dessert. There are quick swaps for dairy-free and vegetarian options, too. Recipes include IP takes on carne asada street taco bowls, easy lava cake bites, southwest egg roll in a bowl and spicy white chicken chili.

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Plant-Based Meal Prep: Simple, Make-ahead Recipes for Vegan, Gluten-free, Comfort Food by Stephanie Tornatore and Adam Bannon(09 of09)
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The wife-and-husband duo behind this book have a YouTube channel devoted to plant-based eating and meal prep, and they bring that experience to bear in this colorful, well-designed book. Not only are all the recipes vegan, they’re also gluten-free. There are options for soy-free, grain-free and nut-free variations throughout. Recipes include loaded baked potatoes, yellow fried rice, creamy pasta with broccoli, fettuccine alfredo and raw healing pesto.

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