Author Spotlight
Riley Atkinson
Holiday wish lists around the nation featured the infamous air fryer, and now social media is booming with recipes to fry just about anything in the pantry. So if the mini-spaceship-shaped cooking device that can quickly create all sorts of crispy food found it’s spot on your kitchen counter this year, take some inspiration from one of the few recipes I tried out:
The everything bagel that came out of my air fryer looked so delicious that I googled if Einstein’s was hiring — I was impressed, to say the least.
This recipe required only eight ingredients, and is made with greek yogurt instead of yeast, which eliminates the time it takes for the dough to rise and cuts the cooking time from over an hour to 15 minutes. Not to mention the nonfat yogurt is much healthier and leaves you feeling less bloated — my New Year’s resolution of healthy eating is happy about that one. The air fryer made the bite-sized bagel the perfect level of crispiness, with a golden-brown outside and soft inside.
My only advice for these bagels is to watch the measurements carefully. I mistakenly mixed up the terms tablespoon and teaspoon, which left my bagels a little too salty for my liking — yeah, maybe I shouldn’t work at Einstein’s. Other than that, the texture was crispy and it had a flavorful savory taste.
My whole family shuffled downstairs to peek at what I was baking while these apple snacks were in the air fryer — it filled my house with a warm apple pie smell.
This recipe only requires slicing an apple and mixing together the spiced oats mixture for the topping, so it’s perfect for a quick snack in between classes. The baked apples took the spot as my favorite recipe — the soft apple with the crunchy, honey-infused topping left my mouth watering for more.
Especially after the holidays when I have a sweet tooth solely for for apple pies and crisps, this is a great transition snack. And since there’s no crust, it’s much healthier than an apple treat while still tasting just as sweet — you can even count it as your apple-a-day.
We’ve all seen the popular microwave mug brownies, but I wanted to test if the air fryer would step that simple recipe up to the next level. After mixing the ingredients within 10 minutes, I realized this would be a dangerously perfect midnight snack.
Although I was stumped on whether or not the brownie had cooked all the way through in the recommended seven-minute cooking time, the top actually turned out crunchy, which balanced out the rich, gooey inside perfectly. If you try this one out though, I’d definitely recommend adding some vanilla ice cream or whipped topping — the rich chocolate can be a little overpowering.
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