The Best Luxury Gourmet Autumn Sweet Treats This Year

Are you ready for the fall? To lend a hand, we’ve rounded up the autumnal treats perfect for dinner parties, holiday gatherings, or just because. If you don’t have the ability or time to make dessert yourself, here are the best luxury gourmet autumn sweet treats you can buy this year.

the best luxury gourmet autumn sweet treats this year

Expert bakers, chocolatiers, confectioners and pastry chefs have taken all of the basic elements of a fall dessert and amped them up to gourmet status.

If you’re entertaining anytime between September and Thanksgiving, consider these an ideal shortcut to the perfect dessert course.

1. Apple

Baked apple blossoms ($54) are an elegant nod to apple-picking season, with carved tart apples in puff pastry.  Sugarfina Apple Pie gummies ($3.00) are a limited-edition treat.

Georgetown Cupcakes has a September special that we anxiously await each year: caramel apple cupcakes ($36 for a dozen). 

2. Pumpkin

Pumpkin marshmallows pair perfectly with the fall. These adorable ones ($9.99) from Williams-Sonoma seem ideal for a post-pumpkin picking adventure. They’re also perfectly-sized to top cookies or cupcakes.

Pumpkin pie macarons ($44.95) from Dana’s Bakery in New York have a crisp shell and pumpkin-pie filling inside. Cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and brown sugar. Enough said.

Georgetown Cupcakes has Pumpkin Spice and Pumpkin Cheesecake cupcakes as part of their special offerings in the month of October ($36 for a dozen). 

3. Caramel

Caramel is already a flavor we strongly associate with the autumn. So what could be better than to level up with pumpkin-flavored caramels ($22.95). Or pumpkin paws ($32.95), made with a caramel and almond center and coated in Guittard milk chocolate.

Austin Cake Balls’ The Austin Collection salted caramel flavor celebrates Austin and just happens to have the perfect autumnal color palette ($39.95). 

Continuing the theme of pumpkin and caramel, we love the look of this pumpkin caramel cake from We Take the Cake ($69.95). Or this 4-layer one($65) from Neiman Marcus. Seems only fair to get both.

Then there’s the Cake Bake Shop’s Southern Style Caramel Cake is straight-up caramel ($65-175), and it has 6 layers. The shop describes it as “like a delicious pile of pancakes with a crunch on the outside and soft on the inside.” Sold.

4. Maple

Watch your back, pumpkin. Maple is on the come-up when it comes to the most popular autumn flavor showing up in limited-edition foods of all kinds. 

This maple pecan brittle ($19.99) is delicious on its own, or crumbled over ice cream. Or both.

5. Chocolate

It’s always a good time for chocolate. These foil-wrapped chocolate autumn leaves ($16.95) will do the trick straight through Thanksgiving. 

Godiva Pumpkin Spice Truffles are available in-store only, and they’re worth a trip. 

6. Candy Corn

Candy corn brownies ($39.95) sound like the autumn dessert of our dreams. These wedge-shaped chocolate brownies created by Ambler FitzSimons of Blissful Brownies are topped with a chocolate shell and a crunchy sugar crust. 

We also love this option for gourmet autumn desserts. A candy corn cake ($59.95) that looks like plain chocolate on the outside but has an autumnal surprise once you slice it. 

the best luxury gourmet autumn sweet treats this year

That’s it! Our top picks for gourmet autumn desserts to purchase, so that you can enjoy your guests and the fall weather without much of a fuss. Have a great autumn!

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