October is such an orange month from the leaves turning, pumpkins everywhere, Halloween decorations, and all Thanksgiving preparations that are coming. Recipes in the fall tend to be heavily on the orange side, even the ones that don’t include pumpkin. You mean they exist? I even included some non-pumpkin orange recipes.
Savory
1.Baked Chipotle Sweet Potato and Zucchini Fritters with Homemade Spicy Mustard (GF with vegan option) – Sweet potatoes are great in any form, including in these baked fritters
2. Roasted Carrot and Red Pepper Peanut Soup (vegan, GF) – Roasting the vegetables gives the carrot soup a depth of flavor that’s intense and smoky, and combined with coconut milk, peanut butter, and peanuts, this soup is hearty and rich
3. Double Cheese and Red Pepper Dip – Five minutes to make in the microwave. Creamy cheesy goodness in warp speed and ridiculously easy and fast to toss together
4. Vegetable Lasagna Casserole (vegan, GF) – A noodle-less, non-traditional lasagna that’s made using a giant zucchini-carrot ‘noodle’ and lots of veggies and cheese
5. Roasted Sweet Potato Red Pepper and Coconut Milk Soup (vegan, GF) – If you’re short on time (or even if you’re not) the sweet potato soup is excellent and comes together from start to finish in 15 minutes in the microwave with just a few ingredients
6. Chips and Cheese Chili Casserole (vegan, GF) – I skipped the breadcrumbs and baked chips into the casserole instead. A perfect gameday, tailgating, or fall meal that makes planned leftovers
Breads & Cake
7. Pumpkin Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting – This bread is a mixture of both pumpkin and banana flavors whereas the cake below is more robustly pumpkin-flavored. Depending on the flavor profile you want, they’re both moist, dense, pumpkiny, and you can’t go wrong with either
8. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake with Chocolate Ganache – Takes five minutes to make the batter by hand and it’s one of the moistest cakes I’ve ever had and will be a favorite for years to come. The ganache can be made in the microwave and is a snap
9. Sweet Potato Graham Cracker “French Toast” Sticks – They won’t win a beauty contest but this recipe is how to turn potatoes into French toast sticks and they’re crazy good. The recipe was used in the cookbook I was a co-contributor on
Candy and Cookies
10. Butterfinger Bars (No Bake, Vegan & GF options) – 3 ingredients, make in the microwave in 5 minutes, and are eerily similar to the real thing
11. Candy Corn Cookie Dough Pretzel Bites (No-Bake) – Vegan cookie dough, stuffed with candy corn, perched on top of a pretzel, and they come together in minutes without even needing a mixer for the dough
12. Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Vanilla Buttercream – These grew on me so much that I made another batch a day after the first batch was made and are fast and easy to make. The cookies are incredibly moist and soft
13. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies – A soft and tender pumpkin cookie meets a chewy and classic chocolate chip cookie, rolled into one. Definitely chewy whereas the previous cookies are soft and squishy
Beverages
14. Caramel Maple Pumpkin Pie Smoothie (GF and use vegan caramel to keep vegan) – Pumpkin Pie in a Cup and a great use for that leftover pumpkin puree in the can that you don’t know what to do with
15. Orange PushUp Smoothie – Tied with these cookie dough balls and this pumpkin spice latte as the most popular recipe on my site. People love PushUps or apparently have as fond of childhood memories as them as I do
What are your favorite recipes this time of year?
Links welcome and appreciated.
The winner of the Pumpkin Whoopie Pies + Book Giveaway is Laura (Tutti Dolci)
I found out on Friday that I was nominated as one of the Top 25 Recipe Blogs and there’s voting here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click the the spacebar-looking thing with ‘See All Suggestions’ written on it to find my name and lots of other well deserving ladies whom I know as well.
Have a great weekend!
I have a particular soft spot for your red pepper/root veggie/coconut milk soups! They’re simple, delicious, and beautifully thick and rich looking. Nice round up!
I am all about soup at this time of year. I just roasted a butternut squash that I’m going to make into soup later today. And for some reason this year I’ve been craving muffins instead of cookies, which is really strange!
Sounds like you’re ready for fall w/ the roasted squash, soup, and muffins. And yes, can’t wait to hear about your muffin adventures rather than cookies!
I’ll have two of everything, please! The sweet potato graham cracker french toast sticks are lovely! (If I had a band, that’s the name I would use.) :D
That would make a great band name, wouldn’t it! And thanks for the pin. I am drooling over your cake board BTW!
Those butterfinger bars look a little TOO good. I love the idea of the sweet potato french toast sticks too!
And they’re so easy – yes a little too good and easy :)
But of course you are one of the top 25 blogs!! You are getting so famous and it is WELL deserved! Yay for you! (Don’t forget about us little peeps with no blogs whatsoever!) :-)
Nice roundup of orange recipes. I love the pumpkin chocolate chip bundt cake with the the chocolate ganache. It’s such a festive and cozy looking dessert and doesn’t disappoint once it is on a plate, either! I think I told you I was going to make that for a harvest party and I did so. It was oohed and ahhed over and every single piece was eaten. It would be a great autumn table centerpiece, if it could remain whole and last for a while! :-)
My favorite recipes this time of year are the apple, cinnamon, pumpkin, cherry desserts and breads and butters. Anything fall that has to bake or bubble is just fine by me for making a happy family and the house smell fantastic!
Well after almost 4 years at this, and really finding my clearer voice the past couple, finally things are starting to click and it’s been so fun! And thank you, Michele, for reading 99% of all those posts and commenting on them all over the years! Seriously, I heart you :) And all the glowing, supportive, wonderful comments you leave and our friendship! xoxo
I am so happy to hear you made that cake and that you loved it and that everyone else oohed and ahhed! That makes me so happy! :)
Way to go!!! Love the orange!
A list of recipes by color – I love it! What a gorgeous array of recipes. I’m especially loving the looks of those sweet potato french toast sticks. I dunno … I actually think they’re pretty beautiful. :)
I think they’re pretty beautiful too! But I have gotten some nose-turned-up-at-them kind of comments. Sometimes comfort food isn’t always pretty, even though I love the way they look. Lol
It all looks sooo good! I could seriosly eat all of it! :)
There are a lot of orange foods in the fall. And I love them all
yay beta carotene!! all these recipes look fabulous!
And congrats on the nomination! Sorry I got so excited about pumpkin I forgot to write that first, hehe
Wow, I did not have very many non-pumpkin orange recipes! I did have this spicy pimiento cheese, which is a fave: https://scrumptiousgruel.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/spicy-hot-pimiento-cheese-spread/
And this melon ball cocktail was super duper orange:
For pumpkin orange, savory pumpkin soup:
I so want to make your butterfingers spinoff but I am afraid I’d way the whole thing. I’m a girl with candy corn issues;)
They’re just corn syrup that’s been colored. Just look at it that way :) You know, refined sugar! lol
Your pimento dip looking amazing. I am editing cheese-based photos for a recipe going out this week as I type this!
AAhhh cheese. I look forward to this.
Wednesday :)
I haven’t had a butterfinger in years. I used to LOVE them!
This recipe looks so fun to make…I can’t wait to give it a try!
Congrats on the nomination! That’s fantastic!
This time of year, I’m totally craving chili and any type of winter squash. Acorn, delicata, sweet dumpling . . . I love it.
And that butterfinger bar recipe looks sinfully good! And way too easy! Genius idea–how the heck did you ever think of that?!? :)
There weren’t that many recipes floating around for it a few years ago and I sort of pieced together what I knew would work. Now there’s a lot more people who’ve gotten hip to the Homemade Butterfinger game!
Wonderful news on your nomination, congrats!!! Great collection of recipes here, I have a gew raw orange salad dressing recipes I adore for dressing up a simple salad.
the dressing sounds lovely!
Congratulations on your nomination!! I gave you a thumbs up. It appears you are becoming well known in the food/recipe blogging community and your efforts deserve to be recognized! This time of year I start craving dried cranberries on my salads, thick soups, roasted winter squash, and those homemade butterfingers bars!!
Thanks for the thumbs up :) After almost 4 years at this, it seems some things are all hitting all at once which has been fun!