Beyond Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Pound Cake with Buttermilk Glaze

Pound cake is perfect for tailgating and potluck sippers, and wih canned pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, and tangy–sweet buttermilk glaze, the flavor is perfect for fall.

Recipe: Pumpkin Pound Cake with Buttermilk Glaze

Pumpkin Ice Cream Torte with Ginger Crust

This frozen torte is a great make–ahead alternative to taditional pumpkin pie. Tasty gingersnap cookies form the crust, which is topped with pumpkin–flavored ice cream and drizzled with both caramel and hot fudge toppings. You may never return to pumpkin pie.

Recipe: Pumpkin Ice Cream Torte with Ginger Crust

Pumpkin Bread Pudding

If your two favorite desserts are bread pudding and pumpkin pie, you're in luck with this recipe that combines the best attributes of each one. Topping the warm bread pudding with maple syrup and toasted pecans is pure genius.

Recipe: Pumpkin Bread Pudding

Pumpkin Chai Pots de Créme

These creamy custards offer a double dose of pumpkin with canned pumpkin in the custard and a sweet, crunchy topping of pumpkin seed brittle. The chai tea added to the custard gives it a warm spiciness that's perfect for the holidays.

Recipe: Pumpkin Chai Pots de Créme

Pumpkin-Orange Cake

Canned pumpkin in the cake batter gives rich flavor and moistness, and a ring of mandarin oranges crown the top of this two–layer cake. Both of these orange–colored foods are high in disease–fighting antioxidants, as are the crimson pomegranate seeds that fill the ring of orange segments.

Recipe: Pumpkin-Orange Cake

Pumpkin Flan

Canned pumpkin adds both rich flavor and creaminess to this traditional Spanish custard, and toasted coconut adds even more sweetness.

Recipe: Pumpkin Flan

Pumpkin Pie Crunch

A crumble or a crisp is a fruit dessert topped with a crumbly, sweet pastry topping. This pumpkin version of a crumble features canned pumpkin and yellow cake mix for the topping. The crunch from toasted pecans. The dessert is baked in a baking pan, but you can scoop it out and serve in coffee cups for a unique presentation.

Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Crunch

Pumpkin-Chocolate Rice Pudding

Comforting rice pudding is even better with the rich color of canned pumpkin and the creamy sweetness of marshmallow créme and melted chocolate morsels.

Recipe: Pumpkin-Chocolate Rice Pudding

Pumpkin-Praline Custards

Top cool and creamy pumpkin custard with crumbled praline candies for a decadent dessert that's just the right combination of smooth and crunchy.

Recipe: Pumpkin-Praline Custards

Pumpkin Roll

Impress your guests with a spiced pumpkin cake roll that's filled with sweet cream cheese. Rolling up the cake is easy with these step–by–step instructions, plus, you can make it ahead of an refrigerate.

Recipe: Pumpkin Roll

Pumpkin–Cream Cheese Napoleons

A Napoleon is a dessert made with rectangular layers of puff pastry, filled with rich cream, and sprinkled with sugar. This cream in this impressive pumpkin version is pumpkin butter, pumpkin pie filling, sugar, and cream cheese.

Recipe: Pumpkin�Cream Cheese Napoleons

Pumpkin and Maple Ice-Cream Sandwiches

Both pumpkin puree and pumpkin piespice are used in the cake–like cookies that sandwich the maple–flavored ice cream. You can wrap these up individually and take one out of the freezer whenever you need a sweet treat.

Recipe: Pumpkin and Maple Ice-Cream Sandwiches

More Autumn Favorites

Enjoy savory dishes that bring out the best of autumn flavor.

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