If you like cooking cakes in the air fryer, you’ll love this air fryer apple cake.
Read on to discover how easy it is to make an apple cake in an air fryer.
🛒 What You Need
Ingredients
- 300g self-raising flour
- 150g light brown sugar
- 125g butter (softened)
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 200ml milk
- 250g apple, peeled, cored and chopped (Bramley or Granny Smith are good choices)
- 1 -2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 50g sultanas (optional)
Equipment
- air fryer
- mixing bowl
- baking tin – I used a 20cm tin – check that your tin fits in your air fryer basket
👩🍳 Making It
Step 1
In a bowl, mix together the flour and sugar.
Step 2
Add the softened butter, beaten eggs and milk to the mix and combine it. You can either mix it by hand, or, use an electric whisk.
Step 3
Coat the peeled and chopped apples with the cinnamon.
Step 4
Gently stir the cinnamon coated apples through the batter, as well as the sultanas if you are using them.
Step 5
Transfer the mixture into a greased or lined baking tin and place in the air fryer basket.
Step 6
Air fry at 160°C for 40 minutes, or until the cake is browned and cooked all the way through. Insert a metal skewer to check.
If the inside is still wet, return the cake to the air fryer and cook for longer. If the outside has browned up you can cover the tin with foil (make sure the foil is tightly secured around the tin to stop it from blowing about in the air fryer).
Leave the apple cake to cool down for 15 to 20 minutes before removing it and slicing it.
🧾 More Air Fryer Recipes
There are lots of different cakes and bakes you can cook in an air fryer.
- Air Fryer Carrot Cake
- Air Fryer Shortbread
- Air Fryer Flapjacks
- Air Fryer Apple Crumble
- Air Fryer Banana Bread
- Air Fryer Apple Turnover
📚 Air Fryer Resources
I hope you enjoy this air fryer apple cake recipe – let me know in the comments if you end up making it!
👉 Recipe Card (Concise Instructions + Print)
Air Fryer Apple Cake
Try making this tasty apple cake in an air fryer with a hint of cinnamon. Prepare it as usual and then cook in the air fryer instead of the oven.
Ingredients
- 300g self-raising flour
- 150g light brown sugar
- 125g butter (softened)
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 200ml milk
- 250g apple, peeled, cored and chopped (Bramley or Granny Smith are good choices)
- 1 -2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 50g sultanas (optional)
- 20cm baking tin
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix together the flour and sugar.
- Add the softened butter, beaten eggs and milk to the mix and combine it. You can either mix it by hand, or, use an electric whisk.
- Coat the peeled and chopped apples with the cinnamon.
- Gently stir the cinnamon coated apples through the batter, as well as the sultanas if you are using them.
- Transfer the mixture into a greased or lined baking tin (mine was 20cm) and place in the air fryer basket.
- Air fry at 160°C for 40 minutes, or until the cake is browned and cooked all the way through. Insert a metal skewer to check.
- If the inside is still wet, return the cake to the air fryer and cook for longer. If the outside has browned up you can cover the tin with foil (make sure the foil is tightly secured around the tin to stop it from blowing about in the air fryer).
- Leave the apple cake to cool down for 15 to 20 minutes before removing it and slicing it.
Irene Green
Friday 1st of December 2023
Following on from my comment last week, I have made the air fryer apple cake recipe again using a larger tin and it worked beautifully. The mistake was mine as I originally used the deep cake tin which came with my air fryer but it obviously wasn't large enough for this mixture.
Liana Green
Wednesday 20th of December 2023
Hi Irene - glad to hear that it worked for you this time round, thanks for letting me know!
Irene Green
Sunday 19th of November 2023
Hi Liana. I tried making this apple cake in my air fryer but unfortunately it didn't work for me and I had to end up putting the cake in a larger tin and cooking in the main oven. I used a deep almost 8". There was a lot of mixture which almost filled the tin and despite keep returning to the air fryer it wouldn't cook through in the air fryer. I love your recipes and this is the first one that hasn't worked for me. I will try again and maybe try splitting the mixture between two smaller tins and baking separately in the air fryer.
I am thrilled to see you will soon be publishing an air fryer cookery book as I use your soup book all the time.
Best wishes.
Irene