Yes, you can cook cakes in an air fryer.
Cakes require the ever-useful optional extra ‘air fryer cake basket’, which requires quick preparation before adding the cake mixture. The lining of the cake tin means the cake won’t stick in the tin and will be very easy to remove when it has cooled slightly.
Ingredients
- Butter/Margarine/Cooking fat (whatever you are using as fat for the cake will suffice for this)
- Flour (the same flour you are using for the cake)
Tin Prep
Prep the tin in these simple steps to ensure the cake is quickly released from the air fryer cake tin with minimal effort.
Ensure your air fryer cake tin is clean:
Smear the fat over the inside surface of the tin:
Add a heaped teaspoon of flour to the tin. You can add more if needed or lose some on the way.
Shake and roll the tin so the flour coats all the fat. Add more flour if you need to. Tip away any excess flour that doesn’t stick to the spread.
A prepped cake tin is ready for the cake mixture. Don’t try too hard with the mixture; moving it about will remove the flour coating you have just added. The cake mix doesn’t have to look perfect, as it will settle as it cooks.
