Fall is here, and that means it’s officially pumpkin season. Get cozy with your 100th pumpkin spice latte and check out these five eateries to find seasonal flavors in a variety of food items outside of your favorite fall coffee drink.
1: Tiger Deaux-nuts
Start your day with one of Tiger Deaux-nuts’ three gourmet donut flavors this season.
The orange cranberry pecan flavor is a yeast-raised donut with an orange glaze, a cranberry drizzle and chopped pecans on top, owner Jeff Herman said.
The shop also offers a pumpkin spice flavor, which is a pumpkin-yeast raised donut made with real pumpkin, tossed in cinnamon sugar and topped with a honey glaze drizzle.
The pumpkin raisin cream flavor finishes off Tiger Deaux-nuts’ fall lineup with a pumpkin-yeast raised donut topped with a cinnamon cream cheese frosting, brandied raisins and sprinkled cinnamon sugar, Herman said.
2: Nothing Bundt Cakes
Nothing Bundt Cakes offers a pumpkin spice cake in their signature, moist, bundt-shapes topped with buttercream cheese frosting, manager of Baton Rouge’s Nothing Bundt Cakes Allison Ward said.
The pumpkin spice bundt cake is their most popular featured flavor. You can buy it in the form of “bundtinis,” which are bite-size cakes, “bundtlets,” which are single-serving cakes, and normal-sized cakes, which range from 8 to 10 inches and can be tiered, she said.
3: Magpie Cafe
Move over Starbucks. Magpie Cafe offers its own pumpkin spice latte with a syrup made in-house using pumpkin and seasonal spices.
Director of coffee at Magpie Cafe Wallis Watkins said it’s the perfect balance of sweet and spicy. The drink is topped with the shop’s signature microfoam art, a staple for local Instagrammers.
But the shop offers more than PSLs. Though the menu changes daily, Magpie Cafe has previously served items like pumpkin chocolate chip muffins and pumpkin paleo bars, she said.
On Oct. 22, it will host the Magpie Supper Social, where they will serve a five-course dinner made with seasonal, local goods. On the menu, it says the shop plans to offer herb sweet potato gnocchi and heirloom carrot soup with crème fraîche, brown butter pecans and maple drizzle, among other dishes.
4: Zocalisa
For a rich, chocolate experience, try Zocalisa’s candies and gelato.
Zocalisa owner Jeff Dickey, uses real pumpkin, pureed, cooked and spiced, for the base of its pumpkin truffle and pumpkin pie gelato, he said.
His pecan pie truffles have locally harvested pecans toasted and chopped, molasses caramel, vanilla and bourbon.
5: Trader Joe’s
If you wish to concoct your own seasonal dishes, stop by Trader Joe’s for fall ingredients. The grocery store offers pumpkin in nearly every form.
Some items you may want to add to your grocery list are hot drinks like pumpkin spice coffee single serve cups, which are perfect for Keurig coffee makers, or pumpkin spice chai mix, which you simply add to water, according to the store’s Fearless Flyer.
You can make breakfast with pumpkin bagels and pumpkin cream cheese as well.
Honey roasted pumpkin ravioli can be served alone or with autumnal harvest pasta sauce, according to the Fearless Flyer.
The flyer also suggests making pumpkin bread pudding for dessert and using pumpkin tortilla chips for snacking.

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Magpie Cafe offers seasonal treats like their pumpkin spice latte and pumpkin chocolate chip muffin on Monday, Oct. 12. 2015, for a limited time.