Autumn cuisine: Autumn bucket list, autumn recipes & decorations

Autumn bucket list, wonderful ideas for autumn cuisine & delicious autumn recipes in Mykitchens magazine.

Experience autumn consciously and with all its beautiful sides – without any autumn blues! With our autumn bucket list, we look forward to the cold season. Experience wonderful activities that are only possible on autumn days, such as autumn walks, mushroom picking or pumpkin festivals, and create beautiful memories. You can also create culinary delights with delicious autumn recipes, and bring the bright red and orange colours of the season indoors with beautiful autumn decorations for the kitchen. Discover all the autumn ideas for 2025 at Mykitchens now.

Ideas for autumn cooking

Transform your kitchen into a beautiful autumn kitchen! Here we show you how easy it is to adapt to the changing seasons with our three ideas for autumn cooking.

The ultimate bucket list for autumn 2025

Inspiring ideas for the ultimate autumn bucket list that lets you experience the magic of golden autumn days.

1. Drink pumpkin spiced latte: With its warm, spicy aroma of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger, the trendy pumpkin spiced latte perfectly captures the cosiness and flavour of pumpkin season.
2. Build a bonfire: Bake bread on a stick together, roast marshmallows and enjoy a cosy get-together – a bonfire always creates a wonderful atmosphere.
3. Bake your own bread: With its tempting aroma, homemade bread adds a special flavour to your autumn cooking.
4. Take a walk in the woods: A walk in the woods in autumn is good for the body and soul. The fresh air reduces stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. The colourful display of leaves lifts the spirits.
5. Collect leaves, acorns, chestnuts and mushrooms: Create natural decorations for your home or try out creative craft projects with chestnuts, acorns and autumn leaves.
6. Read a new book: Get cosy indoors with a new book that stimulates your imagination. Reading in autumn promotes relaxation, helps reduce stress and invites you to reflect on life and nature.
7. Bake cinnamon rolls: With their warm, sweet cinnamon flavour and fluffy yeast dough texture, cinnamon rolls are the perfect baking recipe for the cooler months. We choose 4 October (among other days) for baking because it is ‘Cinnamon Roll Day’.
8. Make your own scented candles: Create a cosy, warm atmosphere in the kitchen with seasonal scents such as cinnamon, orange or clove. Not just for cooking, but throughout your home with homemade scented candles.
9. Painting pumpkins: This autumn, we're painting pumpkins instead of carving them. A painted pumpkin lasts longer because the skin is not damaged and rotting is delayed. This means that your autumnal pumpkin decorations will stay beautiful for longer.
10. Celebrating Halloween: Celebrating Halloween in autumn combines old traditions, the changing of the seasons and a playful exploration of fear and death in an entertaining way. On 31st October, we dress up in costumes to ward off evil spirits.

Trend colours for the autumn kitchen 2025

If you want to furnish your autumn kitchen, you will naturally want to use autumn trend colours throughout. Brown, beige, red, cream, gold, orange – autumn colours are inspired by nature. To match, we recommend the colour accents with Smeg.

Delicious autumn recipes

When it comes to cooking, we focus on regional vegetables that are in season in autumn: pumpkin, mushrooms and all types of cabbage form the basis of delicious autumn recipes.

Recipe for an autumnal mushroom risotto:

For our mushroom risotto, briefly sauté 250 g risotto rice with a finely chopped onion and 2 chopped garlic cloves in 2 tablespoons of olive oil, then deglaze with 200 ml dry white wine and gradually add 600 ml vegetable stock. The 500 g of mixed mushrooms are fried separately, seasoned and later stirred into the creamy risotto. Finally, refine with 50 g of grated Parmesan and a little butter, season with salt and pepper and serve with fresh parsley as desired.

Recipe for an autumnal latte with pumpkin spice:

To make a pumpkin spice latte, heat approximately 250 ml of milk and stir in 2 tablespoons of pumpkin purée, 1 tablespoon of sugar or honey, and a pinch of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Prepare a double espresso with the coffee machine and pour it into the milk mixture. Stir well, pour into a cup and top with frothed milk and a sprinkling of cinnamon to taste.

Recipe for 12 delicious cinnamon rolls made from yeast dough:

Mix 500 g flour with 75 g sugar, a pinch of salt and (optional) 1/2 teaspoon cardamom in a mixing bowl. Then make a well in the centre, spread 75 g softened butter around the edge and add 1/2 cube of yeast with 250 ml lukewarm milk to the well. Knead everything into a smooth yeast dough and leave it covered to rise for approx. 1 hour.

While the cinnamon roll dough is rising, prepare the filling. To do this, mix 75 g softened butter with 75 g sugar and 2 teaspoons cinnamon. When the yeast dough has risen nicely, roll it out into a rectangle and spread the filling on top. Now roll up the dough from the long side and cut it into approx. 12 equal pieces. This creates the typical rolls. These are then placed in a greased tin, where they are left to rise for another 30 minutes before being baked at 180 °C for about 20 minutes. After baking, simply coat with a little icing as desired and enjoy!