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Autumn warmers: 25 of the best cosy cakes and bakes

(Cinnamon) sugar, (pumpkin) spice and all things nice, these seasonal fruit-forward recipes will keep you cosy, with their warming flavours of brown butter, whisky, honey, maple and more.

25 recipes
Helen Goh's honey cake gets better with age.

Honey cake with figs and whisky

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
This crostata recipe works with various fruity fillings.

Blood plum crostata

  • 2 hrs +
  • Andrew McConnell
Helen Goh's apple cake, icing and praline optional.

Apple cake with maple cream cheese icing and caramelised walnuts

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Quince, cinnamon and ginger cake. Styling by Hannah Meppem. Food preparation by Breesa Swann.
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Quince, cinnamon and ginger cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Plum, blackberry & hazelnut shortcake. Karen Martini PLUM recipes for Epicure and Good Food. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Styling by CAROLINE VELIK. Photographed March 5th, 2013. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Plum, blackberry and hazelnut shortcake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Leave the peel on the apples for this lattice-topped pie.

Earl grey apple pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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Jill Dupleix's take on Russian sharlotka with whisky toffee sauce.

Russian apple cake with whisky toffee sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Helen Goh's pumpkin spice loaf with optional icing (omit for dairy-free).

Spiced pumpkin loaf cake with brown-sugar cream cheese icing

  • Helen Goh
Danielle Alvarez's brown butter and cardamom pear tart.

Brown butter and cardamom pear tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Feel free to use any fruit in this dessert. Pouring cream to serve, however, is non-negotiable.

Apple and blackberry ‘slump’

  • Helen Goh
Katrina Meynink swaps dainty individual financier fingers for a slab.

Slab financier with pear and slightly fancy fennel sugar

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Helen Goh's autumnal cake.

Pear cake with rye and ginger

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Dark chocolate and pear are a classic combo.

Chocolate, pear and olive oil cake with cocoa crumble

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Tarte tatin meets upside-down cake.

Cake tatin (aka apple upside-down cake)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
This cake is like a tray-baked cinnamon doughnut.

Moravian sugar cake with walnuts and cinnamon

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
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If you are ready to tuck into wintry baking, this is the perfect cake to give you that cozy feeling.

Buckwheat apple cake with crumble topping

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Brownie pudding with poached pears.

Pear and ginger brownie pudding

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Saffron-infused milk adds a bright splash of colour to this cake and its icing.

Orange milk cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Dark chocolate, blackberry and vanilla tart.

Dark chocolate ganache and blackberry tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Hazelnut shortcakes sandwiched with brown sugar creme fraiche and plum compote.

Plum and hazelnut shortcakes with brown sugar creme fraiche

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Serve this apple cake with double cream.

Warm apple, brown butter and almond cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Served while still hot, this pudding is delicious paired with the cool, evergreen flavours of the rosemary-infused cream.
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Fig and chocolate pudding with rosemary cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh: "I do urge you to try the bay seasoning in this strudel."

Apple, blackberry and bay leaf strudel

  • Helen Goh
Pear crumble with pools of melted white chocolate.
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Pear, bay and fennel crumble with white chocolate

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Give sticky date a pumpkin spin.
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Sticky pumpkin pudding

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw

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