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The Spruce / Leah Maroney
Fall is the time of year when the color of the leaves change and appetites shift towards warming spices and comfort foods. Between ingredients like maple, pumpkin, cinnamon, and pecans, these cookie recipes give you a tasty inspiration to find this fall's go-to treat.
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies
The Spruce / Anita Schecter
Pumpkin purée gives these cookies a soft texture and natural sweetness that’s complemented by the creaminess and slightly bitter flavor of tahini. Serve them with a pumpkin spice latte, and you're in the fall-time groove.
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Maple Flake Shortbread Cookies
The Spruce / Diana Rattray
This recipe is made from a shortbread dough, which thanks to its generous use of butter, results in a light, crispy crumb. Though what really makes this a great cookie for the fall is the maple flakes, which are made from freeze-dried maple syrup.
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Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
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If you know and love oatmeal raisin cookies, then what could be more apropos than fall-forward oatmeal cranberry cookies? If you’d like to convert this recipe to a breakfast cookie, it can stand about 1/3 less sugar than the directions call for.
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Creamy Pralines With Toasted Pecans
The Spruce / Diana Rattray
Pralines can be firm or soft, but American recipes tend toward the soft side. Pecans are a classic ingredient in pralines, and their buttery taste and texture lend themselves well to the butter and cream used in this creamy pralines recipe.
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Turkey Cookies
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These turkey cookies are a creative way to use any leftover Halloween candy. If there’s a peanut allergy or if you don’t want to use the peanut butter cups called for in this recipe, then you can nest your decorations in a thick chocolate ganache instead.
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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
The Spruce / Jessie Sheehan
The whoopie pie is a fixture in the bakeries of the Pennsylvania Amish, and for good reason—it’s a delicious treat, made with icing sandwiched between two cake-like cookies. This recipe calls for vegetable oil, but you can also use another neutral-tasting oil, like sunflower or safflower oil.
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Sugared Cookies With Almonds and Cinnamon
The Spruce / Lynn Livanos Athan
These shortbread sugared cookies are a Greek invention great for baking during the fall season. They require a heavy dusting of confectioner’s sugar, a process which kids are sure to love, so you can involve the whole family in this recipe.
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Classic Snickerdoodles
The Spruce / Diana Rattray
You may remember a snickerdoodle for its peculiar name, but you’ll make it over and over again for its delicious flavor. The original recipe simply uses cinnamon, but why not try swapping it for pumpkin spice?
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Vegan Pumpkin Cookies
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Not only are these pumpkin cookies vegan, but they're also low-fat thanks to the applesauce that binds the ingredients together. This recipe is delicious on its own, but you can also whip-up a vegan caramel sauce to drizzle over top.
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Apple Cookies With Vanilla Glaze
The Spruce / Diana Rattray
Apples are naturally high in pectin, which is the secret ingredient that allows foods like jams and jellies to gel and set. As a result, these apple cookies are naturally soft and gooey, making them a comforting cookie to enjoy during fall.
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Black Cat Chocolate-Dipped Cookies
The Spruce / Diana Chistruga
These cute, googly-eyed cookies channel Halloween perfectly. The best part is that you can take just about any cookie and use it in this recipe—just keep in mind that a crunchy cookie will be easier to work with.
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Simple Pecan Butterball Cookies
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These pecan butterball cookies require a minimal number of ingredients, so they're a great, fuss-free treat. If you'd like an aromatic boost, blend cocoa powder or cinnamon into the confectioner's sugar used for rolling these cookies.
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Pie Crust Cookies
The Spruce / Leah Maroney
Fall is the season for pie, so it's only natural to work these pie crust cookies into your regimen. If you want to make a cookie that nearly resembles a deconstructed pie, mix-in either apple butter, maple extract, or chopped pecans to your icing batter before drizzling it over top.
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Pumpkin Cookies With Caramel Icing
The Spruce / Diana Rattray
Simple and beautiful, these pumpkin cookies with caramel icing are equally great for a get-together as they are for making with kids. Make these even easier and more fun to decorate by using a piping bag for the icing.
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Apple Cookies With Raisins
The Spruce / Diana Rattray
This apple cookie recipe combines almost all of the quintessential fall-time ingredients, including raisins, apples, and vanilla. If you’d like to mix up your choice of dried fruit, swap the raisins for dates, prunes, or apricots.
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Pecan Pie Cookies
The Spruce / Julia Hartbeck
Pecan pie cookies make everyone’s favorite fall-time pie a personal-sized treat. If you’d like a more scrumptious result, buy your pecans whole and as fresh as possible before chopping them up to use for the topping.
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Molasses Crinkle Cookies
The Spruce / Diana Rattray
Molasses is a unique sweetener with a warm, complex flavor. You can experiment with what sort of molasses you use for this cookie recipe as some are stronger in flavor than others.
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Butterscotch Cookies
The Spruce / Kristina Vanni
Butterscotch may look and act like caramel, but its taste is distinct since it’s made with brown instead of white granulated sugar. These butterscotch cookies are great served with butterscotch schnapps for an after-meal treat.