Easy Fall Dessert Recipes: Quick Treats Like Cinnamon Roll Cake and Pear Tart

Every year, the arrival of autumn brings with it a nip in the air, hot piping coffee, a change in the scenery around you, and warm pumpkin spice and cinnamon-flavoured sweet treats.

With these age-old scrumptious, heartwarming and incredibly easy fall dessert recipes, you will find it in yourself to enjoy the season with comfort delicacies. These rich and decadent dishes will perfume your home and serenade your palates with baked spices, caramelized fruit, and flaky pastry.

Cinnamon Roll Cake

Ingredients:

• 500 gm plain flour
• 320 gm caster sugar
• 13 gm yeast
• 254 ml milk
• 105 gm butter
• 3 eggs
• 7 gm cinnamon
• A pinch of salt
• 100 gm cream cheese

Method:

1. In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, yeast and salt together. Simultaneously, preheat your oven to 190°C.
2. Next, you are going to mix warm milk and melted butter gradually, mixing well until it becomes a smooth batter.
3. After that, beat the eggs in a bowl until it becomes slightly foamy.
4. Then, you have to knead the dough for 10 min until you see elasticity in it.
5. You need to then roll out the dough in a fairly rectangular shape.
6. Now, sift cinnamon powder and sugar into a bowl, and sprinkle the mixture evenly on the dough.
7. After that, you have to roll it tightly, and cut it into 12 equal pieces.
8. You have to place these rolls in a greased cake pan, and bake for 35-40 minutes.
9. Then, you have to let it cool for 10 minutes before serving.
10. While serving, you can top the rolls with cream cheese frosting.

To balance out the sweetness of the decadent cinnamon cake, sprinkle a few flakes of sea salt Experimenting with other spices like nutmeg or cardamom will give even more depth to this sweet and spicy symphony.

You can make this cake in a big batch and bundle a few pieces to give out as party favors in any holiday party that you may host. The cake can be stored in a cool space for about a week.

Pear Tart

Ingredients:

• 320 gm plain flour
• 122 gm confectioners’ sugar
• 103 gm butter (cubed)
• 200 gm sugar
• 3 pears
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 eggs

Method:

1. Begin by preheating the oven to 375°C.
2. Then, you have to whisk together flour and confectioners' sugar.
3. After that, slowly add cubes of cold butter to the mixture and combine everything until the mixture is sandy and crumbly. You have to take care to not overmix the dough.
4. Now, grease a tart pan with butter and press the mixture into the tart pan, making sure to make the mix stick to the sides and the bottom.
5. Then, you are going to bake it for 20-25 minutes, till the sides become brownish but not too dark.
6. Toss together granulated sugar, sliced pears, cinnamon, and vanilla extract in a large bowl.
7. Then, spread the pear mixture on top of the baked crust.
8. Brush the sides with a beaten egg for the glaze.
9. After that, you need to bake it for another 25-30 minutes.
10. You can take it out of the oven once the pears have caramelized.
11. Finally, you can let this cool down completely before serving with fresh cream.

You can easily make this tart with other fall fruits like peaches, plums or apples. You can also make a cherry sauce to go on top, just to complement the tart notes of the fruit. You can zhuzz the dish up more by grating lemon zest into the fresh cream, or decorating it with slices of fresh pear.

These desserts, especially during fall, can work well with hot and spiced drinks. For the cinnamon roll cake, you can try apple cider or coffee as a combination. On the other hand, a glass of cold milk or hot tea will balance the sweetness of the pear tart.

You can try muscovado or turbinado sugars for entirely different flavour dimensions in your baked products. Most pro bakers aren't afraid of going the extra mile because they have mastered the trick of using a little powdered sugar on top or sprinkling some cinnamon on dishes, and making ordinary desserts go from regular to fancy.