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FALL IN LOVE WITH THESE FALL PARTY FOOD IDEAS
Crisp air, cooler temps, crimson and gold colored leaves, and PSL everything signal fall is here. Cue cozy sweaters and blankets, mugs of tea, and fall comfort foods like warm breads and pumpkin desserts infused with spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and clover.
Whether you’re gathering your friends around for a bonfire with fall desserts, hosting a fall cookout, or planning a cozy night in with some apps and drinks, you’ll fall for our fall party food ideas.
How to Host an Outdoor Party in Fall?
The key to hosting a party in the fall is comfort. Here are some tips for hosting an outdoor party in fall:
- Serve fabulous fall foods, including roasts, savory pies, and seasonal produce like carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, apples and cranberries, and treats like cider, hot chocolate, and s’mores.
- Set up heating lamps, fire pits, or blankets can provide cozy comfort outdoors when the sun sets and temperatures drop.
- Use citronella candles, lanterns, or string lights to provide extra light on shorter days.
- Incorporate festive colors like orange, brown, forest green, and cranberry for tableware and decorate your table with pinecones and colored fallen leaves.
What to Bring to a Fall Party?
The best things to bring to a fall party are hearty dishes and desserts that are shareable. Festive fall foods include:
- Chilis, stews, chowders, and soups
- Breads and flatbreads
- Savory pies like shepherd’s pie and chicken pot pie
- BBQ sides like baked beans, corn bread, and mac n’ cheese
- Dips like queso and artichoke & spinach
- Desserts like fruit pies, brownies, pound cakes, and sweet breads & buns
Fall Party Appetizers
Start your party off right from the first bite with savory snacks, crunchy crudités, and nibble-worthy noshes. Fall party appetizers should showcase freshly harvested produce and fall colors. Think veggie and dip spreads, baked Brie and crackers, and potato latkes.
Imo’s Pizza’s Toasted Ravioli + Provel Bite Party Pack
Treat your party goers to a taste of St. Louis with Imo’s Pizza’s fried ravioli. Ed and Margie Imo opened their first pizzeria more than 50 years ago and St. Louis hasn’t been the same. They put St. Louis-style pizza and fried ravioli on the map.
Imo’s Pizza’s Toasted Ravioli + Provel Bite Party Pack includes 1 case of fried beef ravioli and 2.5 lbs. of breaded Provel, a mix of cheddar, provolone, and Swiss cheeses.
Chef Michael Symon’s Signature Pierogi Sampler
One of Cleveland’s most celebrated chefs and restaurateurs, Michael Symon is an award-winning chef bringing his signature pierogies (dumplings) straight to your party.
His Signature Pierogi Sampler includes 1 dozen each of 3 pierogi flavors:
- Beef Cheek pierogies filled with beef cheek stewed in tomato and red wine
- Pork & Sauerkraut stuffed with tender pork shoulder and sauerkraut
- Potato & Cheese with mashed potatoes and aged white cheddar
Read More: What is a Pierogi?
Chef Kelly Fields’ Buttermilk Biscuits & Pimento Cheese Kit
Hot biscuits fresh from the oven are wonderful on a cool fall day. They’re even better with a creamy scoop of pimento cheese spread.
James Beard Award-winning chef Kelly Fields’ Buttermilk Biscuits & Pimento Cheese Kit are 8 fluffy ready-to-bake biscuits with homemade jam, and 1 lb. of creamy pimento cheese spread made with cheddar cheese, cream cheese, mayo, sour cream, peppers and spices.
Fall Party Snacks
When the munchies strike, have a variety of savory and sweet snacks at hand. Fun party snacks include warm shareable treats like nachos, soft pretzels with cheese, and spiced nuts.
Guy Fieri’s Guy’s BBQ Brisket Trash Can Nachos
Guy’s BBQ Brisket Trash Can Nachos is a tower of tortilla chips and cheddar topped with smoked brisket, BBQ sauce, black beans, cilantro, Jalapeños, pico de gallo, pickled red onions, and sour cream. Your guests will have fun filling a “Trash Can” with nacho toppings that are off the chain!
Beauty & The Board’s Assorted Snack Gift Box
Since 2018, Elle Mawardi has been making the most beautiful charcuterie, cheese, and snack boards in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Your guests will love grazing on savory, sweet, and spicy snacks in Beauty & The Board’s Assorted Snack Gift Box, Snacks include Salty Spicy Snack Mix, Truffled Marcona Almonds, Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans, and Swedish Fish. This snack kit comes party-ready with 4 bamboo bowls and 2 bamboo tongs.
South Jersey Smoke House’s Smoked Cheese Sampler
Chiropractor-turned-chef Dan Greenberg turned his love of smoking food into South Jersey Smoke House in 2008. Known for their smoked salmon, Greenberg and his wife also smoke cheese over oak wood at their smoke house in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey.
South Jersey Smoke House’s Smoked Cheese Sampler is the perfect party pleaser with crackers and 3 lbs. of Sharp Cheddar cheese, Pepper jack cheese, and Cooper Sharp cheese.
Fall Party Dinners
Fall in love with the warm spiced aromas that evoke cool fall nights by the fireplace or dinner table. Fall is the perfect time to celebrate nature’s bounty with squash, apples, and pumpkin. From hearty chowders and stews to chilis and casseroles to meat roasts and veggies, you’ll fall for these comforting fall party dinners.
Centerville Pie Co.’s “Oprah’s Favorite” Signature Homestyle Chicken Pie
Longtime friends Laurie Bowen and Kristin Broadley opened Centerville Pie Co. in Centerville, Massachusetts, in 2009 and bake sensational savory and sweet pies.
“The Pie Ladies” boil whole chickens in a flavorful stock to create their “Oprah’s Favorite” Signature Homestyle Chicken Pie. The tender meat is hand pulled and stuffed into a flaky crust, making for the most memorable dinner pie.
Bite Into Maine’s Lobster Grilled Cheese
What started as a food cart founded by husband-and-wife Karl & Sarah Sutton in 2011 in Portland, Maine, has turned into an enterprise with a restaurant and multiple food trucks serving one of the best lobster rolls in the world.
Bite Into Maine’s Lobster Grilled Cheese is made with hunks of fresh Maine lobster, 1 slice of Fontina cheese, 1 slice of Sharp Cheddar cheese, and a schmear of chipotle mayo sandwiched between 2 slices of locally-sourced sourdough bread.
L’Artusi’s “Taste of L’Artusi” Pasta Kit
This West Village Italian restaurant has been a hit since it first opened in New York City in 2008.
Chef Joe Vigorito’s “Taste of L’Artusi” Pasta Kit is the ideal comfort food for your fall party. This perfect pasta kit includes 3 legendary pastas: Tagliatelle Bolognese Bianco, Rigatoni with Mushroom Ragu, and Taglierini all’Amatriciana, plus a link to L’Artusi’s music playlist.
Fall Party Desserts
Don’t forget dessert. Dessert is our favorite part of any meal. Make sure to impress your guests with these fabulous fall party desserts.
Muffins n’ Stuff’s Crumb Cake Sampler
Since 1985, family-run Muffins n’ Stuff has been baking old school baked goods in Paterson, New Jersey. Muffins n’ Stuff’s Crumb Cake Sampler includes the bakery’s top selling crumb cakes in 4 flavors:
- Classic Old Fashioned Crumb Cake: Yellow cake topped with buttery crumb and sprinkled with powdered sugar
- Apple Cinnamon Crumb Cake: Yellow cake filled with apples and topped with buttery crumb and caramel icing
- Raspberry Crumb Cake: Yellow cake filled with raspberry purée and topped with buttery crumb and icing
- Double Chocolate Crumb Cake: Chocolate cake topped with chocolate buttery crumb and drizzled with chocolate icing.
Stan’s Donuts’ Pumpkin Spice Old Fashioned Donuts
Founded in Los Angeles in 1963 and perfected by Rich Labriola in Chicago in 2014, Stan’s Donuts makes some of the most legendary old fashioned donuts ever.
Whether you dunk them in coffee or eat them solo, Stan’s Donuts’ Pumpkin Spice Old Fashioned Donuts are a fabulous fall pick-me-up. Each of the 1 dozen donuts is a perfect pumpkin-flavored old fashioned donut drenched in pumpkin glaze.
The Village Bakery’s Tennessee Mountain Apple Stack Cake
Since 1979, James Shelton and his team have been baking a sweet taste of Appalachia, including Apple Stack Cake. While the Apple Stack Cake was traditionally a wedding cake created by wedding guests, who would each bring a layer of cake, and assembled by the bride’s family, this terrific cake makes a tasty finale to any occasion.
The Village Bakery’s Tennessee Mountain Apple Stack Cake is an 8-in., 5-layer cake with apple filling. The apple filling is made with green apples and Applachian spices, including allspice, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
Read More: Best Fall Pumpkin Desserts
One bite and you’ll be falling for these Fall favorites. Get everything you need for Fall and Fall parties, from appetizers to desserts, shipping nationwide on Goldbelly!
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