Last Fall, I shared a post about some of my favorite things about the season, including this pumpkin donuts with cream cheese frosting recipe. 🙂 This year, I am sharing four fall home finds plus my salted caramel sweet potato blondies recipe. With the changing season comes more opportunities to open up your home and food is usually involved so I thought it would be fitting to hit y’all with a recipe and some easy ways I’ve made things more cozy and welcoming around the house. It’s the second in my fall focus on the wonderful, versatile sweet potato. The first was this spicy chipotle skillet meal. Let’s get into it!
Seasonal Scents
Like every other basic girl out there, Bath & Body Works is my go-to for fall scents. Pumpkin is the siren song of fall scents but there is a great variety of other seasonally-appropriate scents out there. Think dark berries, juniper, woods, warm spices, and vanilla. I’ve built up quite a stash from couponing over the years so I don’t actually shop every season but below are my favorite fall scented soaps and candles currently available online.
Candles: Sweater Weather, Leaves, Chestnut & Clove, Pumpkin Apple, Spiced Apple Toddy, Golden Amber & Oak
Soaps: Afternoon Apple Picking, Black Cherry Merlot, Golden Pear
Plant Life
I slow down on bringing in fresh flowers when the weather changes but do take advantage of the antique hydrangeas and richly-colored mums which are abundant around this time of year, whether potted or cut. Seasonally-colored and scented faux or dried foliage is another good option that you can keep in your rotation for years to come. I found a bunch at Michael’s for 70% a little while back. Here are all my fresh and faux flower hacks for picking the best ones while sticking to a budget.
Cozy Fabrics
As temperatures drop, the desire to snuggle up in coziness rises. I changed up some of my pillow coverings (tutorial here) and DIYed faux fur seat covers for the ghost chairs in my dining room (tutorial here). These are easy and inexpensive ways to freshen up the look of your space and can be changed out seasonally.
Pumpkins (Duh!)
Grocery and craft storefronts have been overtaken by all kinds of gourds and the aforementioned mums. Here in Houston, H-E-B seems to have the best variety and, although my dining room is a work in progress at the moment, I plan to incorporate Blue Jarrahdale, Cinderella, and mini pumpkins into the tablescape once complete. Mini pumpkins are an easy way to add a seasonal touch no matter the size of your home. Fill a bowl or vase with them for a formal dining room tabletop or group two or three together in smaller rooms or on surfaces such as your coffee table.
Salted Caramel Sweet Potato Blondies Recipe
One of the most enjoyable ways to bring the season into your home is by baking seasonal treats. I shared these chai-spiced pumpkin snickerdoodles and this easy classic apple pie in September, my 7 favorite fall apple recipes last week, and now have these salted caramel sweet potato blondies for you to add to your rotation. They’re so simple to make and egg-free, in case you’re into that kind of thing. 🙂 Real roasted sweet potato is mixed right into the batter then swirled with salted caramel to yield a decadent dessert that has become my new favorite!

Decadent sweet potato blondie bars sweetened with brown sugar and swirled with sticky salted caramel
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons sea salt plus 1/2 teaspoon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 large sweet potato roasted and peeled
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup milk I use unsweetened almond
- 1 11-ounce bag of caramel candies unwrapped
- 1 tablespoon water
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In one bowl, mix together flour, 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, baking powder, and cinnamon.
In another bowl, mix together sweet potato, butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and milk. Add wet mixture to dry mixture and mix well. Spread into a greased, square baking pan and set aside.
Add caramel candies, remaining sea salt, and water to a nonstick saucepan and melt over medium heat. Stir together until uniform to form salted caramel sauce (should be very sticky).
Drizzle salted caramel sauce over batter then swirl batter and sauce together with a spoon or spatula.
Bake for about 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool completely then cut into eight rectangular bars.
What are your favorite finds and recipes for Fall? Let me know in the comments below. Thanks for reading!

Love all things Fall and love these tips to get your home cozy for the season! I’m gonna check out your chai spiced pumpkin snickerdoodle recipe!
Thanks, Charity! Let me know if you try the recipe.
I couldn’t agree with you more on HEB’s pumpkin selection! I always feel like it’s a fall wonderland at their stores this time of year and love browsing all the varieties.
Those blondies are to die for, and I absolutely LOVE the wooden cake stand you used to display them.
Thanks so much, Miranda! Fall wonderland is the perfect descriptor. The cake stand is an old clearance find from Marshall’s but I still see them around there and at HomeGoods.
Looks so tasty.
Those look so delicious! Personally, my favorite fall scent is Yankee Candle’s Mountain Lodge (yes…also known as “the boyfriend candle”)
I’m not familiar with Yankee Candles and will have to check that one out. Thanks for reading!
Fall is my favorite season too! I am addicted to Bath and Body Works and love having their candles and hand soaps around the house. Pumpkin Apple is one of my favorites too!
Fall is my favorite season. I felt so warm and cozy reading this article. That sweater weather candle scent sounds intriguing…
It’s a wonderful scent, you must try it. Glad you felt warm and cozy while reading!
So many great things in this post! I don’t think it gets better than B&BW candles. Everyone is basic if liking those candles are the qualifications, haha.
Also, my eyes bugged out when I saw your blondes. Great recipe! I’ll be trying it soon, 🙂
Thank you! I hope you love them.
Fall is my very favorite season! I love how you changed up your house decor to make it cozy on those cool days!
This blondies look to die for! I would love these in the oven on a lazy saturday.
This looks awesome, what size pan did you use?
Thanks, Georgia! I used a square 9 by 9 inch pan.