Fall is a harvest season full of celebrations and gatherings with delicious and creative foods. Here are 10 fall cookbooks to inspire creative cooking.
When you think of fall, what comes to mind? Autumn is a season full of changes and opportunities to start new creative habits and hobbies, read cozy fall books, and of course, cook healthy and inspiring foods to keep you warm and bring people together. Learn how to support your creativity and healthy lifestyle with these fall cookbooks covering holiday cooking, unique recipes, and more ways to get creative in the kitchen.
When it comes to creative cooking in the fall, many seasonal ingredients can support healthy creative minds, as well as unique fall cooking styles to inspire play and other creative skills.
Fall isn’t the only time to embrace creative cooking.
Discover more healthy recipes and unique and creative cookbooks to support your creativity in the kitchen year-round.
Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge by Trine Hahnemann is perfect for the fall season, with each recipe built around the Danish philosophy of Hygge.
Hygge is a lifestyle concept that focuses on the quality of coziness and comfortability. The Scandinavians excel at comfort— family, friends, a good atmosphere, long meals, relaxation, and an emphasis on simple pleasures. With this cookbook, you can learn some hearty and delicious recipes to help you embrace hygge this fall and support a creative happy lifestyle.
Purely Pumpkin: More Than 100 Seasonal Recipes to Share, Savor, and Warm Your Kitchen by Allison Day is a fall cookbook that covers one of the main ingredients of the season, pumpkin. There are seemingly endless ways to cook and enjoy pumpkin, and this cookbook covers 100 seasonal recipes to bring you comfort, relaxation, and good health this fall.
Allison Day, a popular blogger and creator of the award-winning YummyBeet.com, brings the cozy warmth of pumpkin into our homes with a seasonal, whole foods recipe set and earthy food photography. With savory and sweet recipes for all meals of the day—including a mouthwatering pumpkin dessert chapter—it’s the cookbook your home shouldn’t be without during the fall and winter months.
Half Baked Harvest Cookbook: Recipes from My Barn in the Mountains by Tieghan Gerard features over 125 recipes featuring maximum flavor, minimum fuss, and the farm-to-table style, perfect for hearty and delicious meals this fall.
Tieghan Gerard grew up in the Colorado mountains as one of seven children. Ever determined to reign in the chaos of her big family, Tieghan found her place and creative outlet in the kitchen. She had a knack for creating unique dishes, which led her to launch her blog, Half Baked Harvest.
Get inspired by the beautiful photography and comforting recipes to make some delicious dishes this fall to bring family and friends together.
Elegant Pie: Transform Your Favorite Pies into Works of Art by Karin Pfeiff-Boschek is an essential fall cookbook to help you make the perfect and most creative pies this festive season. Discover 25 creative pie recipes with step-by-step guides and beautiful pictures to guide you.
The fall holiday season is the perfect time to discover new creative ways to get creative in the kitchen and create delicious and inspiring foods for your guests. Pies are easy to make and stunningly attractive as the most decorative cakes using some basic techniques and the appropriate care when working with pie dough. The 25 pie designs in this cookbook are arranged by three difficulty levels and range from graphic art styles to seasonal-inspired florals.
The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook by America’s Test Kitchen is a popular treasure trove of cozy cooking and baking recipes for the fall and winter seasons. From soul-warming soups and simple dinners to showstoppers and weekend projects, you’ll find creative recipes to try.
As the air grows chillier and nights longer, learn dishes that draw us to the table and the warmth of an active kitchen. Discover flavors to replace the fading fall delicacies and showcase all the reasons to love autumn and winter cooking.
The Soup Book by Louis P. De Gouy features over 700 soup recipes to keep you warm and cozy this fall. From thick to thin, hot to cold, there are soups for every mood and skill level.
Beyond the long list of soup recipes, Master Chef Louis P. De Gouy shares the basic principles of successful preparation and tips to help you grow and get creative in the kitchen to adapt the soups to your needs and time. Discover soups from many cultures and use almost every ingredient.
Baking with Kim-Joy: Cute and Creative Bakes to Make You Smile by Kim-Joy is a cookbook that infuses the creative art of baking with imagination and color.
Kim-Joy, a fan favorite and finalist from the Great British Bake Off has created a creative cookbook perfect for bringing color into your fall cooking with sprinkles, the full rainbow of color, and imaginative recipes to have fun and play in your kitchen. Learn how to cook creative cakes, cookies, macarons, ornate loaves of bread, and more recipes with step-by-step guides, photography, and positive messages to keep you inspired.
Whether you want to learn how to make a llama cookie, a cat paradise cake, a panda-madeleine, or a choux-bun turtle, there’s something here to capture your imagination and spread a little (Kim-)Joy!
Beautiful Boards: 50 Amazing Snack Boards for Any Occasion by Maegan Brown is the perfect fall cookbook to help you get creative with your food presentation for special holiday occasions and gatherings.
Learn how to make mealtimes, special occasions, and holidays extra memorable with these 50 delicious, inspiring, family-friendly, and easy-to-recreate snack boards. Using beautiful photography and helpful step-by-step guides, Maegan Brown (aka The BakerMama) can help you unleash your creativity to entertain and impress family and friends.
Artful masterpieces, including:
- Pancake Board
- After School Board
- Fall Feast Board
- Pumpkin Halloween Board
- Turkey Board
- Build-Your-Own Taco Board
- Football Board
- Dim Sum Board
- Birthday Dessert Board
Ever wonder what it’s like to attend a feast at Winterfell? Wish you could split a lemon cake with Sansa Stark, scarf down a pork pie with the Night’s Watch, or indulge in honey fingers with Daenerys Targaryen?
A passion project from superfans and amateur chefs Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer—and endorsed by George R. R. Martin himself, A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook lovingly replicates a stunning range of cuisines from across the Seven Kingdoms and beyond with over 100 recipes, divided by region. These easy-to-follow recipes have been refined for modern cooking techniques, but adventurous eaters can also attempt the authentic medieval meals that inspired them. The authors have also suggested substitutions for some of the more fantastical ingredients, so you won’t have to stock your kitchen with camel, live doves, or dragon eggs to create meals fit for a king (or a khaleesi). There’s even a guide to dining and entertaining in the style of the Seven Kingdoms. And remember, winter is coming—so don’t be afraid to put on a few pounds.
The ultimate cookbook for fans of all things magical! Aurélia Beaupommier pays tribute to all sorcerers, fairies, elves, mages, witches, and magicians within this spellbinding cookbook!
In The Wizard’s Cookbook, you’ll find recipes inspired by your favorite magical stories, eras, and lands—from history, myth, and fantasy—including Harry Potter, World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons, JRR Tolkein, The Legend of Zelda, Narnia, and many more. These magical recipes are accompanied by beautiful full-page color photographs of the delectable food and drinks.
Zach is an international writer, photographer, filmmaker, martial artist, and creator of Creative Enso, the Zen art of creative living. His goal is to empower and inspire creatives to live healthier, happier, and more creative lifestyles.
