Air Fryer Desserts: Fast, Easy and Delicious!

1. Welcome to the Air Fryer Desserts class!: Hello, I am pleased to welcome to my kitchen. I am a Portuguese pastry chef. I share recipes on my YouTube channel on Instagram, and I am also a cookbook author. So as you can see, I love to teach how to do deserts and pastries, and I love sharing recipes. And that's exactly what I will be doing in this class. In this specific class, I will be talking about deserts that you can make in an air fryer. Air fryers or becoming so popular nowadays, almost everyone has one or is at least thinking about buying one. They are very convenient to make meals or snacks in a very fast and easy way. And that's also the case when we are talking about deserts. In this class, I will talk a little bit about the air fryers and how to bake in them. A few tips and tricks to help you develop your own recipes later on. But I will also teach you find the dessert recipes that are simple, easy, and fast to make, but most of all, they are delicious. So if you already have an air fryer or are thinking about getting one, and if you love desserts, this is a class for you. The recipes I will teach you in this class are an apple crumble, a banana tarts, atom, chocolate from them, a big chocolate chip cookie, and the cheesecake. Before starting with the class, I would like to tell you that for convenience, I will leave the written recipes in the class resources both in grams or in cups and ounces. Now, let's get started with our tips and our recipes. 2. Baking in an Airfryer: Pros and Cons, Tips and Accessories: Let's start by talking about air fryers. What exactly is an air fryer? Because of the name and all the mark thing, most people think air fryers are just meant to fry foods without oil. But actually what an air fryer is, it's a convection oven, a really, really compact convection oven that works with heat and with ventilation. So that's great if you want to do things that are crispy, so it imitates being fried. But you can also use them to bake everything that you would do in an oven. For starters, they are much faster than an oven. I never preheat my air fryer because I find that reach temperature very, very fast. In my case, probably less than a minute. But if you find your air fryer is a little bit slower in reaching temperature, you can preheat it, and it will take you one or 2 min in the oven to preheat the oven to 180 Celsius or 350 Fahrenheit, which is the most common temperature for baking. Sometimes it can take up to half an hour to reach that temperature. So that's already a big cut in time and energy. Second pro is that they are very easy to clean. Most of them, you can pop this in your dishwasher and you're good to go. And the third reason why I love to bake in an air fryer is that you can adjust your recipes and make smaller quantities in an air fryer. You can easily do one portion, up to six portions may be depending on the recipe. So that means no leftovers. Now about the cons, I will have to point to things. The size obviously limits the quantity. For instance, if you aren't doing a recipe for cookies that will make a full tray of cookies. You can do it in the oven in only one batch. If you are doing in an air fryer, depending on the size of your air fryer, going to have to do it in three or four batches. Eight will add up, and that will take you longer than doing it in the oven. So if you are doing big quantities, I really don't think it's a good idea to use an air fryer. It's better to use an oven. And the second thing, it's not really a big issue, but it's something that you need to have in consideration. Most they're friars only have the heating coming from the top. Let's say you're making a cake, for instance, if you are doing it in the oven, most ovens, they have heating coming from the top and the bottom. So the cake bake evenly. If you only have heating coming from the top, it can mean that the top sometimes you will gain a lot of color and the bottom part sometimes is still not baked or is a little paler in color. So my advice to you is that only use the air fryer to bake things that are flat. Don't use an air fryer to bake something that is very tall because you will run into this problem or bake things that you can easily or either flip or just mix, so everything gets baked evenly. I have here two air fryers. They work basically the same. All recipes that I will be teaching today can be made in any of these. This is a very small one and very simple to use. It only has two buttons. One controls the temperature, one controls the time, and that's it. This one is more modern, much bigger, which is great. It's all digital, but it also has a control for the temperature and the time. That's all we need. Before starting with the recipes, there are a few things that I would like to show you really help when baking in an air fryer. First of all, thunks, they make it very easy to take things out of the air fryer or even flipping things when you're halfway through baking. One thing that it's very helpful to have a pan that fits perfectly in your air fryer Like this one. It maximizes the space and you can use this to bake small cake, even a few cookies. You can use whatever material you would use in a regular oven. Now if you're baking something straight in the air fryer without any kind of pan, I have three suggestions that might help. One of them is this silicone mat. You can find all of these on Amazon. This prevents anything from sticking and they also have holes, so there's a little bit of circulation and they come in different sizes and shapes to fit different kinds of air fryers, more or less the same idea about the Silicon Macs. You can find these free cut parchment papers. They also come in different sizes and shapes and they fit perfectly the bottom of the air fryers. It's the same as putting a piece of parchment paper in an oven tray. And lastly, there are these silly con baskets. Again, they also come in different shapes. They eat the air fryer. They very easy to remove and you will only need to wash these because most of the times your air fryer will be immaculate. I hope you have enjoyed this tips about baking in an air fryer. I hope you are inspired to start using yours. So let's go to the best part of this class, which are, of course the recipes. 3. Apple Crumble: The first dessert that we will bake in an air fryer is an apple crumble. Now, the crumbles are more or less like pies, but without crusts on the bottom. And the crest on the top being very crumbly. It's a very simple desert, a crowd pleaser. You just need to bake the apples for a little bit, make the dough, which is very, very simple, and then put the bow on top of the apples and bake for a little bit more. You can adapt this recipe and use other fruits instead of apples. You just need to make sure they have more or less the same consistency. E.g. pears, peaches, or plumped, will work great. For the Apple feeling. We will only need apples and the little bit of brown sugar. You can use any kind of apples that you prefer. For the crumble, we will need brown sugar, flour, butter, cinnamon, and salt. We will start by peeling and dicing the apples. And it's better if we cut the apples into very small chunks so they can bake faster. And we are going to place our diced apples into a container that will serve to both cook the apples and then to bake the crumble. Just make sure it fits your air fryer basket. Mix the sugar with the Apples Very well, and bake in the air fryer at 350 Fahrenheit or 180 Celsius for 15 min mixing halfway through here are the apples when 7 min have passed, gave them a mix and bake for the rest of the time. Meanwhile, let's make the crumble. It's very easy. In a bowl. You will place the flower, the brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt, give it a good mix and then add them melted butter. I just melted mine in the microwave. And now we are going to mix this without over mixing. Otherwise, our though will be compact and we need a very crumbly, don't we? This spatula or spoon mix using cutting movements until you don't see any flower left. At this point, our apples should be perfect. They are starting to cook. They are much softer, but they are still firmly placed. The crumble over the apples without pressing it, making sure it covers the apples evenly and baking the air fryer at the same temperature for 15 min until it's very golden brown. Apple crumble is great, hot or cold, but in my opinion, nothing beats it. Worm out of the oven served with the big scoop of ice cream. 4. Chocolate Fondant: The second dessert that we will make is one that has a lot of fans. It's a chocolate fondant, also known as a chocolate pizzicato. We are talking about those rich chocolate cakes that have a molten Center. They are baked in individual moles and then they are and molded into a plate. But in the air fryer, we are doing them a little bit different. We are baking them directly in the cup gets you are going to use to serve them. So that's much easier. And this is also the fastest desert that you will probably make. We will need chocolate. A semi sweet or dark chocolate works best. You can use chocolate chips or chunks, or a bar of chocolate cut into pieces. We will also need butter, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt in a heat proof ball, place your chocolate and butter cut into pieces, melting the microwave, or in a memory mixing occasionally until it's completely melted and the butter and chocolate are evenly combined. Adding the sugar mix well with a whisk and then add the flour, baking powder and salt continually skin just until everything is well combine. And lastly, you're going to add the As soon as your egg is incorporated, believe it or not, your battery is ready. All you have to do now is shoes where you're going to bake your fondant with this quantity, you're going to make either to bigger fondant or for smaller ones. You can use a smaller RAM akin like this on the left or a big cup like that on the right. I'm going to use the bigger ones. I'm gonna bake to finance. I'm going to divide my batter into two big hit Proof balls. I will place them in my air fryer baskets, and that will bake them at 200 Celsius, 400 Fahrenheit. The bigger ones like this will take more or less five-minutes. The smaller ones will take about 3 min when they are ready. They are firmer on the sides but soft in the center, depending on the shape of your recipient, times may vary a little bit. Make sure you enjoy them worm with the scoop of ice cream. 5. Big Chocolate Chip Cookie: Here I will demonstrate a very easy way to make chocolate chip cookies, which is to bake a big chocolate chip cookies. And then you slice it in the shape that you want. You can slice it in squares or triangles bending on the shape of the pen that you will choose. And it's very, very fast to do cookies that way. They kinda look like something between a cookie and the Blondie. And that it's great for me. The ingredients we will need our butter, both white sugar and brown sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, and baking soda, salt and chocolate, either chocolate chips or chunks, or a bar of chocolate cut into pieces. Use any kind of chocolate that you prefer. I like to use semi sweet for chocolate chip cookies, but dark chocolate or milk chocolate would also work great. Let's start by creaming the butter with both white and brown sugar. The butter should be at room temperature and very soft. And you can do this using a standard mixer with a paddle attachment or a hand mixer, but I'm using a spoon here. So you can see it's also very easy to do it by hand. You just make sense until you have a very creamy mixture and then you add the egg and then keep on mixing until the ADD is incorporated. When the egg is fully integrated and the mixture looks like a cream. Add the dry ingredients, the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, and keep on mixing until almost all the flower disappears. At this point, we'll add the chocolate. And here I'm using a bar of chocolate that I cut into pieces. At this point, will keep on mixing until the dough comes all together and it forms a ball. At this point, you shouldn't be able to see any pieces of rock flour and the dough is ready to bake, you will choose a pen or a mold that fits your air fryer basket. And with this quantity, you will be able to do two batches. I'm using a silicone mold and I will place half of my dough into the silicone mold and that will press it. So it's even though should have about 1 " or two-and-a-half centimeters thickness. And you will bake this at 350 Fahrenheit, 180 Celsius for 10 min, or it's very golden brown. You will leave this to cook completely before and molding because the warm cookie will be soft and it can break once it's completely cooled, take out of the mold or the pan and repeat the baking process with the other half of the doubt. And this one, you can already cut into pieces. I will cut mine into a triangles, meaning that the full recipe will make 16 triangles like this. They have a wonderful texture. They are crisp on the top and very soft on the bottom. And if you want to enjoy them worm, you can pop them in the air fryer for a few seconds. 6. Cheesecake Cups: I love cheesecake, I love baked cheesecake, snow big cheese cakes, big cheesecake, smaller portion, She's cakes. I am a fan. If you are also a fan of cheesecake, I think you're gonna like this. We're not going to actually bake the cheesecake in the air fryer, but we're going to use the air fryer to make the two elements that also complement the cheesecake. We're going to bake that cookie-based in the air fryer. And we're also going to use it to make a fruit topping. I will use blueberries today, but you can use any other barriers, any other fruit that has more or less the same consistent, for instance, raspberries, strawberries. Or you can use a mixture of berries that would also work really well. As for the cheesecake itself, it's a very simple cream. It's more or less like a cheesecake moose, actually. And then when we have all the three elements together, we'll just put them in individual cups and they will be perfect. You can use this idea. And instead of the cheesecake cream that I will teach you, you can use yogurt or ice cream, for instance. The cheesecake has three elements. For the base, we will need cookies and butter. You can use Graham crackers or any kind of similar cookie. I will be using speculum for the cheesecake most we will need cream, cheese, cream, and icing sugar. And for the topping, we will need fruit. I will be using blueberries, lemon zest, and sugar. Let's start with the base, melting the butter, and making the cookie crumbs. I will melt my butter in the microwave and use a small food processor to reduce the cookies into a powder if you don't have one, you can also put them in a bag and crushed them with a rolling pin. Place your cookie crumbs and melted butter into a recipient that you can use on your air fryer and that can feed your basket and mix it really well until all the cookie crumbs are coated with the butter and bake at 350 Fahrenheit or 180 centigrades for 10 min mixing halfway. Here are the cookies. When 5 min have passed, they are still very loose, give them a good mix and returned to the air fryer to bake for the remaining time. Here is the crust fully baked? It should have a very deep golden color and the toasty smell, it's not compact like a normal cheesecake crust because we are using it in cups, but it should feel dry, transfer it to a plate to cool, and let's make the fruit topping. I'll be using frozen blueberries. You can use fresh or frozen. It will work the same. And you'll put the blueberries, sugar, and lemon zest in the same recipient to use to make the crust. You don't even need to wash it, mix everything together, and baking your air fryer at 350 Fahrenheit or 180 Celsius for about ten to 15 min, the time will vary depending on the fruit that you're using. And if you're using fresh or frozen mix occasionally, and you should have a very soft and compact like mixture transferred to a plate to cool. And let's make our cheesecake move, weave together the cream cheese, the cream, it should be whipping cream and the icing sugar. If you want, you can add vanilla in this cream wip very well for a couple of minutes at a high-speed you can use a hand mixer or a stand mixer with a whisk attachment until you have a very thick cream like this, transfer it into a piping bag and it will be much easier to fill the cups this way. With these quantities, you can make about six cheesecake cups, divide the crust between the cups that you are using. Remember that both the cookie crust and the topping should be called at this point, feel the cups with a cheesecake cream. You can use a spoon to smooth the top out and finally top each cup with a portion of the blueberry filling. You can leave it as is, or you can smooth it out. With this point, we are ready to eat, but it's best to take them to the fridge for about 2 h before eating. So they are firmer and cooler. They will last up to three days in the fridge. 7. Banana Tarte Tatin: Lastly, we are doing a third, Chatham. Dark patterns are done upside down. Usually when you bake a pie or tart, you place your dough on the bottom and the filling on the top, and you bake it this way. For tetanus, we are doing the opposite. So we will start by placing the feeling. We will tap it with the dough. It will bake this way and to serve it, we will inverted so the feeling is on top. So in order to do a tar Tatooine in the air fryer, We have to bear in mind that the heat in most air fryers only comes from the top. So our feeling needs to be, or either already pre-baked, pre-cooked, or it has to be a feeling that doesn't need a lot of baking. And that's why I'm using banana. Say actually I'm using banana, walnut and ******, but you can adapt the tart to attend to other flavors as well. What I will teach you is the method and then you can adjust. We will need puff pastry, that's gonna be our crust. And then bananas, brown sugar, ******. I'm using pumpkin pie spice, but you can use a mixture of ****** that you like or you can even just use cinnamon and walnuts. The first thing we will do is find the biggest pen that can feed your air fryer. If you have a cheesecake pan with a removable bottom, that's even better. You are going to need to put a piece of parchment paper that fits perfectly your pen and use that same parchment paper to cut your puff pastry. Use it as a mold and cut around so you have a circle the exact same size as your pen. You can use any puff pastry that you have left to make other tart. Reserve it for now and let's take care of the banana part. Makes well, the mixture of ****** with the brown sugar. And you're going to use this mixture of sugar and ****** to cover the bottom of the pen, used about three-quarters of this mixture and reserve a quarter for later slice the bananas and make sure the slices are more or less the same thickness. Arrange the slices in an even layer in the pan. And if you need cut some slices in half or in quarters to fill in any empty spaces, leave a little bit of space on the edge of the pan about the thickness of a finger so we can tuck in the puff pastry later. But other than that, everything should be very compact and completely filled with the banana slices, cut the walnuts into smaller pieces and distribute them evenly over the bananas. And finally top, everything with that little bit of mixture of ****** and brown sugar that you had reserved in the beginning. Now let's get our piece of puff pastry that we cut previously. And we are going to place it on top and tuck it very well around the edges on that gap that we left free of bananas. And with a fork we're going to pinch some holes. When the puff pastry is baking in the air fryer, It doesn't puff up too much baked at 350 Fahrenheit or 180 Celsius for 15 min, the time may vary depending on the thickness of your puff pastry. When it's ready, the puff pastry should be golden brown and dry. Leave it in the pan for about five to 10 min to cool off a little bit and then very carefully and using a towel so you don't burn yourself, placed a plate on top of your pen and invert so your tag, Catan, can slide off the pen. I'm using a cheesecake mole, so it's very easy. I just have to open the pen, peel off the parchment paper carefully. Remember it's hot and leave it to cool for a little bit more before eating, you can enjoy it warm or cold, and you can test it with powdered sugar to make it prettier. 8. Class Project and Goodbye : This is the end of our class. I really hope you have enjoyed the tapes, the recipes, and our time together. And now as for the class project, I will invite you to do at least one of these recipes and don't forget to upload the picture. So i and the other students can see your creation and we all can be inspired to do more air fryer desserts. Again, I am pleased that you can find me online at La Dolce Vita, both on YouTube, Instagram, or Facebook. Thanks for watching. I can't wait to see your desserts now I will say goodbye to you and hello to these cookie.