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Individual Cupcakes
(makes 8 cooked in 2 batches)
• 3.5oz softened butter or margarine
• 3.5oz caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• Few drops of vanilla essence
• 3.5oz self raising flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
1. Place all the ingredients into a bowl and use a hand mixer to whisk all the ingredients
together until a light creamy mixture is achieved.
2. Fill 6-8 silicone cupcake moulds half full with the cake mixture.
3. Place the cakes inside the inner bowl and close the lid. Set the timer for 11 minutes
and cook on the dual heat mode setting with your Air Fryer in the Level position.
4. Once cooked, carefully remove the inner bowl and place it onto a roasting rack to
cool.
5. After 5 minutes remove the cakes from the inner bowl and cool them for a further 15
minutes on the roasting rack before decorating.
Tip:
To stop your cakes from sliding around the inner bowl, cut out a piece of foil roughly
the same size as the bowl. Make a slit in the centre and slide the foil over the inner bowl’s
central shaft. Sit your cakes on top of the foil and this will stop them sliding about.
Warm Tropical Fruit Salad
• 100ml of tropical juice
• 1oz of golden caster sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1 orange, zested
• 2 passion fruits (pulp and seeds)
• 1 ripe mango, peeled and de-stoned
• 1 pineapple, prepared
• 1 kiwi, peeled, cut into chunks
• 2 ripe peaches or nectarines, de-stoned
1. Have a bowl of iced water ready.
2. Heat the tropical juice, sugar, vanilla, orange zest and passion fruit until the sugar has
dissolved in a small pan on a low to medium heat. Quickly place the pan into the cold
water so that the mixture forms a syrup.
3. Cut the prepared fruit into slices. It is attractive to cut the pineapple into rings, the
peaches or nectarines into segments and the mango into wedges but you can prepare
the fruit any way you like.
4. Place the fruit in the bowl and coat it with the syrup. Cook for approximately 5-8
minutes on the dual heat mode setting with your Air Fryer in the Level position until
softened and juicy.
Delicious served warm over pancakes with ice cream.
Baked Peaches With Amaretti Biscuits
(serves 2)
if you have a food processor, why not use this to chop up your biscuits and nuts!
• 1.5oz toasted hazelnuts, roughly chopped
• 1.5oz amaretti biscuits, crushed
• 0.8oz unsalted butter, room temperature (soft spread can also be used as a
substitute)
• 15g caster sugar
• 1 free-range egg yolk
• ½ lemon, juice only
• 2 ripe peaches or nectarines
• 1 tsp lemon zest
• 2 tbsp thick cream
• 2 sprigs fresh mint (optional)
• Icing sugar (optional)
• Raspberries (optional)
1. Mix the hazelnuts, biscuits, butter, sugar, and egg yolk in a bowl until the ingredients
hold together as a rough paste.
2. Cut each peach in half, remove the stone and pack a rounded spoonful of the filling
onto each half. This should fill the cavity in the peach and cover most of the exposed
half of the fruit.
3. Place the halves onto the lightly oiled roasting rack. Cook for about 10-15 minutes on
the dual heat mode setting with your Air Fryer in the Level position until cooked (the
cooking time will depend on the ripeness of the fruit).
4. To serve, place the baked peaches on to serving plates, and place a large dollop
of the thick cream alongside it. Optionally, garnish with mint and a handful of fresh
raspberries and dust with icing sugar.
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