Best Apple Desserts in Toronto This Fall (2026)

Apple season runs alongside pumpkin spice season every year, less loudly but just as good, showing up in pie, ice cream, milkshakes, and so much more.

Here’s a running list of some of the best apple desserts in Toronto this season, the kind of thing worth eating slowly in a city that never stops moving (unless you’re on the TTC)

Sharman’s Proper Pie: Apple Pie

This one comes frozen, so the experience starts before you even eat it: the oven timer, the smell creeping into the rest of the condo before the pie is even done, the slightly agonizing wait once it’s out and still too hot to touch.

First fork through and it’s warm apple against a crust that held its shape, cinnamon and ginger doing the quiet work in the background instead of shouting over the fruit.

Sharman’s Proper Pie is located at 1972 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4C 1J6 (Get Directions)

Mystic Muffin: Apple Cake

Not much to say beyond the cake doing exactly what an apple cake should: dense enough to feel substantial, soft enough that it doesn’t need explaining past the first bite.

There’s a reason you can say apple cake in Toronto and everyone immediately thinks Mystic Muffin.

Mystic Muffin is located at 113 Jarvis St, Toronto, ON M5C 2H4 (Get Directions)

Pilot Coffee: Apple Crumble Matcha and Apple Crumble Chai

Iced matcha usually reads clean and a little austere, so the crumble syrup catching you halfway through the cup is a genuine plot twist, warm baked apple sitting underneath the grassy bitterness instead of covering it up.

The chai version leans more expected but still lands. Plus you can ask for apple crumble cold foam on anything else on the menu, making any of your favourite year-round drinks a little more fall (for a while).

Pilot has multiple locations across Toronto (Get Directions)

Scooped By Demetres: Double Baked Apple Pie Flavour

The base is cold and rich in that brown-butter way, and then you hit an actual chunk of pie filling, cinnamon crust and all, followed by a piece of streusel that hasn’t gone soft yet.

Three different textures in one spoonful, which is more effort than most ice cream flavours bother with.

Scooped By Demetres has multiple locations across Toronto (Get Directions)

Harry & Heels: Apple Fritter

The outside goes properly dark, almost burnt-sugar territory, with enough craggly surface area to catch extra glaze in the folds.

Underneath that it’s still soft, still a little doughy in the middle, and the cinnamon shows up more in the filling than the shell, so you get it a beat after the crunch instead of all at once.

Harry and Heels is located at 832 Dundas St W unit b, Toronto, ON M6J 1V5 (Get Directions)

The Lakeview Diner: Apple Pie Milkshake

This is a genuine slice of apple pie blended into French vanilla and milk, so you’re pulling actual crust through the straw along with the ice cream, not just tasting a pie-flavoured syrup.

Diner milkshake, diner portion, exactly the kind of thing that makes sense to order at 2pm on a Tuesday for no particular reason.

The Lakeview Diner is located at 1132 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1X2 (Get Directions)

Purple Penguin Cafe: Apple Fritter

Made to order means it comes out still audibly crackling, and the couple of minutes it takes to cool down enough to eat is its own small test of patience. Worth the wait, mostly because a fritter that’s been sitting under a heat lamp for an hour is a different, worse food entirely.

That’s the list for now, and there’s a decent chance it grows before apple season wraps. If you’ve had one already, I want to know which spoonful or bite made you stop talking mid conversation, because that’s really the whole point of this list.

Purple Penguin Cafe is located at 889 Queen St E, Toronto, ON M4M 1J4 (Get Directions)

All photos courtesy of the respective businesses.