It's your favorite time of year to cuddle up in a cozy sweater and relish a little fall baking.
I have filled this round up with my best gluten-free fall dessert recipes to satisfy your sweet tooth, and then added even more fall treats from online food blogger friends.
Choosing just a few sweet treats from this mouthwatering collection will be a challenge!
On this list, you'll find... Simple ingredients. Fall harvest fruits and vegetables. Warm, autumn seasonings. No gluten.
Questions about gluten-free ingredients? I address those in more detail at the end of this post.
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Scroll through these gluten-free fall recipes and choose one. Or two. Or three.
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Desserts
These are the best gluten-free pumpkin desserts, from traditional Pumpkin Pie to Pumpkin Spice Tiramisu. Pumpkin, not turkey, will be the true star of your Thanksgiving dinner.
Gluten-Free Apple Desserts
Apple is the quintessential fall fruit. Share a rustic Apple Galette or Apple Ricotta Cake with friends. Make Apple-Cobbler-for-One. And bring your own Apple Cider Donuts when you visit the apple orchard.
Gluten-Free Spiced Fall Desserts
You will love the warm flavors of these gluten-free dessert recipes packed with seasonal spices, including ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Chewy cookies and the best gluten-free cinnamon rolls ever are on this list!
Gluten-Free Pear Desserts
Another fall favorite fruit, pear is fabulous when combined with chocolate, cinnamon, or made into a beautiful tart. These simple recipes will give you that cozy fall feeling.
Gluten-Free Orange & Cranberry Desserts
Cranberries, oranges, and spices will carry you all the way through late autumn and into early winter. These desserts are lovely at any holiday table from Thanksgiving to Christmas.
Gluten-Free Sweet Potato Desserts
I'm a huge fan of vitamin-A-rich sweet potatoes in any form, even more so in a dessert! Even the beautiful rustic-orange color says fall.
Gluten-Free Maple Desserts
Sweet, golden maple syrup isn't just for pancakes. It adds a distinct fall flavor to these desserts. Bake a showstopping cake and creme brulee, enjoy more casual cookies and donuts, or top off your favorite seasonal dessert with a simple Maple Whipped Cream.
Gluten-Free Ingredients
A word about gluten. There are no gluten ingredients in any of these recipes. Whether you have celiac disease (like me), gluten intolerance, or otherwise need a gluten-free diet, these desserts are for you.
But as always, you need to vet your ingredients when you purchase them to make sure that the brands you buy have no hidden gluten.
Here are a few ingredients that pop up frequently in these recipes and deserve a little gluten-free discussion:
Flour
My favorite one-to-one replacement flour is King Arthur Gluten-Free Measure for Measure Flour. I recommend it whenever the recipes simply call for gluten-free flour.
In other cases, when the recipe specifies a type of flour, such as almond flour or rice flour, use the flour listed in the recipe.
Oats
Oats are a hot topic in the gluten-free space. I cover the oats issue in detail in my Apple Crisp Recipe.
Discuss with your doctor. I have celiac disease, can tolerate gluten-free oats, and have been advised by my gastroenterologist to eat oats that are labeled gluten-free.
As an extra precaution, I personally use Gluten-Free Prarie Oats, which are purity protocol oats, grown and processed separately from gluten-containing grains.
There are two recipes on this list with oats. The Apple Crisp Recipe includes an oat-free variation. The Sweet Potato Oat Cookies do not, so skip that one if you cannot tolerate gluten-free oats.
Spices
Spices are naturally gluten-free but can have cross-contact with gluten. Additionally, gluten-containing ingredients are sometimes added to spice blends. I generally stick to spices that are labeled gluten-free or McCormick's single spices (not blends). Learn more about gluten in spices.
Fall Harvest Ingredients
Most of the other ingredients are real foods that are naturally gluten-free and abundant during the fall season, like apples, pumpkin puree, pears, oranges, cranberries, and sweet potatoes.
Happy Baking!
Related Recipes:
- Maple Whipped Cream
- Easy Gluten-Free Pie Crust
- How to Make a Gluten-Free Dessert Charcuterie Board
- 50 Festive Gluten-Free Christmas Dessert Recipes
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