Easy Fall cookie recipes! These festive and fun autumn cookie recipes make for easy Fall baking – and everyone loves cookies!
Looking to do some Fall baking this year?
Consider making some cookies!
They’re easy to take on the go, simple to make, and are fun to share with others.
You can take them to work, a Fall party or tailgate, sell them at a bake sale, or share them at any autumn gathering.
Or just whip up a batch to snack on throughout the week!
I put together a list of unique and fun Fall cookie ideas, so you have tons of inspiration for your autumn baking.
Starring all our favorite Fall flavors, like maple, cinnamon, apple, and pumpkin, there’s truly something for everyone!
🍂 After making a Fall comfort food dinner, you can turn on your favorite show or watch a Fall movie, andnestle in under a blanket with some delicious autumn cookies and create your Fall bucket list.
And if you’re looking for even more Fall baking and entertaining inspiration, you can also explore more irresistible Fall sweet treats or delicious autumn charcuterie board ideas.
Okay, let’s check out these fun Fall cookies!
The Best Autumn Cookie Recipes
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Fall Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
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These autumn sour cream sugar cookies are the perfect comfort food! Dye the cream cheese frosting in fall colors, and cut into leaves and other autumn shapes.
It’s a great fall activity for kids to do when it’s too cool to be outside.
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Maple Cookies
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These maple cookies have it all - chewy cookie centers, buttery pecans, and perfectly balanced maple sweetness!
Baked to golden perfection and topped with an irresistible maple glaze, these cookies offer a cozy taste of fall.
3
Apple Crisp Cookies
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Apple crisp cookies are chewy, crispy apple spice cookies that taste like brown sugar apple crisp topping in cookie form.
4
Maple Snickerdoodles
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These Maple Snickerdoodles have the great cinnamon flavor that everyone loves, with the yummy added bonus of maple syrup.
Take a beloved, classic cookie and kick it up a notch with this autumn twist on snickerdoodles.
5
Brown Butter Iced Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
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Chewy, tender and filled with pumpkin flavor, these brown butter-iced pumpkin oatmeal cookies are going to be a new family favorite!
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Dutch Apple Pie Cookies
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These Apple Cookies have a buttery pie crust bottom, filled with a sweet caramelized apple filling with plenty of cinnamon, and topped with a melt-in-your-mouth brown sugar and oat streusel.
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Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies
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The perfect soft chewy spiced pumpkin oatmeal cookies with sweet white chocolate chips.
This is such a simple recipe because the dough is made in one saucepan. You don’t even need to bring out the hand mixer or KitchenAid.
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Maple Leaf Cookies
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Maple Leaf Cookies are like a direct flight to Canada.
Bursting with maple flavor, these iconic Canadian Maple Cream Cookies are gorgeous with their leaf shape, appealing, and addictive.
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Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
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Pumpkin snickerdoodles are soft, chewy, delicious cookies, full of flavors and perfect for any time. Take a bite and be transported stragith to Fall!
10
Cinnamon Brown Sugar Cookies with Salted Buttercream
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These cinnamon brown sugar cookies with buttercream frosting will give you all the fall feels.
Using brown sugar in a cut out cookie gives you a fun, crispier cookie.
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Soft Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
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These easy-to-make, spiced-to-perfection, soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting pumpkins are about to be your new favorite fall cookie!
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Pumpkin Cookies with Cheesecake Frosting
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A perfectly spiced pumpkin cookie topped with a thick layer of cheesecake frosting, these Pumpkin Cheesecake cookies will have you ready for fall and all the deliciousness it has to offer!
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Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy, with the warm spice of cinnamon throughout.
White chocolate chips add a pleasant vanilla taste and beautiful pop of color. Perfect for dipping in a glass of milk!
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Cheesecake Stuffed Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Cookies
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Indulge in the irresistible combination of warm Fall flavors with our Cheesecake Stuffed Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Cookies!
They are made with yellow box cake mix and cooked to perfection in the air fryer.
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Honey Cookies
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Made with bread flour, these honey cookies are the chewiest out there.
Soft, with slightly crunchy edges, a chewy middle, and a mind-blowing honey flavor combined with brown sugar and speckles of salt.
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Soft, thick and perfectly chewy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe, filled with loads of Pumpkin Flavor and fall spices!
Blot your pumpkin puree, prepare the dough, quickly chill for 10 minutes in the freezer and bake!
Yes, these cookies are ready in under 30 minutes from start to finish!
17
Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
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These Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies are the perfect combination of chewy, sweet, and tangy for a hearty cookie with lots of flavor and texture to love.
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Pumpkin Pie Sandwich Cookie
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Sweetly spiced whole-wheat snickerdoodles sandwich a dreamy pumpkin filling in these delightful Pumpkin Pie Cookies.
Get your fall-flavored dessert fix with just 11 easy-to-find ingredients and 25 minutes of kitchen time!
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Caramel Apple Cookies
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Caramel Apple Cookies are soft, chewy cookies with brown sugar, buttery caramel, and sweet-tart apple. All of the delicious flavors of caramel apples, in cookie form.
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Pumpkin S'mores Cookies
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For a fun twist on traditional s'mores, you can’t go wrong with pumpkin s’mores cookies. They’re soft, sweet and the combo of pumpkin and s’mores flavors is a magical one!
21
Hot Chocolate Cookies
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Hot Chocolate Cookies with Marshmallows are the ultimate cold weather cookie.
Crisp on the outside, soft on the inside, and filled with the cozy flavors of your favorite cup of cocoa!
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Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
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These Pumpkin Sugar Cookies are sweet, super soft and chewy eggless sugar cookies with a mild pumpkin flavor throughout.
Topped with a maple glaze drizzle, they’re also gluten free, nut free, easily vegan and only require 30 minutes of chilling.
23
Soft Apple Cookies
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If you love fall desserts, you will love these sweet delicious Apple Cookies.
These cakey cookies are loaded with bits of soft apples and flavored with warm autumn spices.
A drizzle of apple flavored icing adds the perfect touch of sweetness to each bite.
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Cheesecake Filled Pumpkin Cookies
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Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies are so easy to make and super delicious! Light, fluffy, and with a cheesecake center- these will be a hit every time you make them!
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Brown Butter Pecan Spice Cookies
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These cute little brown butter pecan spice cookies are packed with pecan pieces, the nutty flavor of browned butter and just a hint of cinnamon and cloves.
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Pumpkin Caramel Cookies With Toffee
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These Pumpkin Caramel Cookies with Toffee are the perfect cookies this fall season!
With a creamy pumpkin flavor and sweet bits of goodness, they’re sure to be a huge hit.
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Salted Caramel Heart Center Snickerdoodles
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These salted caramel heart center snickerdoodles are so cute! Each little cookie boasts a heart shaped brown butter caramel filling and delicious cinnamon flavor.
28
Ginger Molasses Cookies
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Soft, chewy molasses cookies with a hint of tangy ginger, these are a copycat for the Roadhouse in Talkeetna, Alaska.
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Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies with Cinnamon Buttercream
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Tis the season for pumpkin spice sugar cookies!
Both the cookie and the buttercream frosting in this recipe have real, canned pumpkin, which gives it just the right amount of festive flavor.
30
Crunchy Chocolate Chip & Hazelnut Cookies
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These crunchy chocolate chip and hazelnut oat cookies are the ultimate delight for those seeking intense flavors and textures in every mouthful.
Using only the finest ingredients like decadent dark chocolate, wholesome oats, crunchy toasted hazelnuts, and coconut sugar as sweetener, these cookies pack a flavor punch.
31
Apple Butter Snickerdoodles
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Two fall favorites – apple butter and homemade snickerdoodle cookies – come together for the ultimate fall cookie recipe: Apple Butter Snickerdoodles!
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Amaretti Cookies
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These classic Italian Amaretti cookies have a delicious almond flavor! Featuring a soft baked cookie rolled in powdered sugar.
They’re so fun and festive, and made with only a few ingredients.
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Brownie Cookies
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Enjoy the rich fudgy goodness of brownies combined with the ease of cookies when you make a batch of these Brownie Cookies.
34
Lace Cookies With Pumpkin Spice
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Lace cookies are butter and brown sugar caramelized with old-fashioned oats to form delicate, golden wafers – with a delicious touch of pumpkin spice.
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Easy Apple Oatmeal Cookies
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Easy Apple Oatmeal Cookies are fragrant with cinnamon and incredibly frugal, making them the perfect fall treat for any budget-conscious foodie.
36
Gingersnaps
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These gluten-free gingersnap cookies are chewy, soft, and all you could ever want in a ginger cookie.
Your gluten-eating guests will never suspect they are eating anything other than the best traditional gingersnap cookie they have ever tasted!
37
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
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Thick and hearty, with light sweetness and spice, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies just scream homemade and Fall.
38
Cannoli Cookies
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Love cannoli, but can’t be bothered to make them from scratch?
Make the lazy version with these cannoli sandwich cookies - they use supermarket shortcuts to make it super easy.
39
Chai Frosted Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
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Chai Frosted Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies, a tasty fall treat loaded with great flavors. Tender cookies and a chai tea infused frosting make a delicious dessert.
40
Cinnamon Bun Cookies
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A fun and easy twist on homemade cinnamon buns that kids can help make, these Cinnamon Bun Cookies are delicious and tender sugar cookies with a cinnamon sugar swirl and optional candy melt “frosting.”
41
Honey Spelt Cookies
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If you are in need of an afternoon snack, these honey spelt cookies are such a fun sweet treat! With hints of spice from the cardamom and sweetness from the honey.
They come together in around 30 minutes and are very easy to make.
42
Cinnamon Walnut Cookies
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As the weather turns cool, stay warm and cozy with a plate of these Cinnamon Walnut Cookies dipped in your favorite warm beverage.
Best of all, the warming spices will fill your home with the most irresistible aromas.
43
Maple Glazed Pumpkin Spice Cookies
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Maple Glazed Pumpkin Spice Cookies are a light and delicious cookie topped with a mouth-watering maple glaze.
44
3 Ingredient Brown Sugar Cookies
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These delicious 3 Ingredient Brown Sugar Cookies are so easy to make and require no special ingredients!
They’re the perfect treat for any sweet tooth and are sure to be a crowd-pleaser.
45
Acorn No Bake Cookies
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These Acorn Cookies are not only super cute, but they are so easy to make. No baking required, and you only need 3 ingredients to make them!
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Pumpkin-Filled Cheesecake Cookies
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These soft cream cheese cookies have a creamy pumpkin cheesecake filling and buttery graham cracker topping. They're basically pumpkin cheesecakes in cookie form!
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Pantry Cookies
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These Pantry Cookies are made with a variety of ingredients from your cupboard. They're hearty, full of flavor and will be great with a glass of milk.
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Cinnamon Bread Cookies
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Cinnamon Bread Cookies combine 2 of your favorites into one amazing treat. Easy to make, you’ll love these cookies for Fall and straight through the holiday season.
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Butterscotch Chip Cookies
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Pecans, butterscotch chips, coconut, and a secret ingredient give these cookies so much texture, and the right balance of sweetness.
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Apple Cider Shortbread Cookies
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Melt-in-your-mouth Apple Cider Shortbread cookies feature a super simple 5-ingredient apple cider shortbread glazed with a 2-ingredient apple cider glaze.
Ready to bake some of these easy Fall cookie recipes?
I hope this list of autumn cookie ideas has given you lots of inspiration for fun Fall baking.
With all these delicious autumn flavors and spices, your house will smell amazing, and you’ll get rewarded with comforting Fall treats.
You can’t go wrong!
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