Easy air fryer chocolate chip cookies are yet another reason I love my air fryer! Not only is it great for making chicken, bread and various other things, but also for air fryer baking! That’s right, you don’t have to heat up the oven to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies. The air fryer does a wonderful job of it. Read on to learn how to make air fried cookies.
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I never met a cookie I didn’t like and these easy air fryer chocolate chip cookies are certainly ones I’ll make again. This air fryer cookie recipe only calls for 8 ingredients. I bet you already have most of them, if not all!
Ingredients for this Air Fryer Cookie Recipe
The usual cookie suspects are here, including flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, egg, and butter. You will also need vanilla extract as well as chocolate chips.
Feel free to make tweaks, such as subbing white sugar for the brown or another kind of extract for the vanilla. I bet hazelnut extract would be amazing here or even orange extract. You can try the cookies with an egg yolk rather than a whole egg. The difference will be negligible.
Use any kind of chocolate chips you want – bittersweet, dark or white for example. You can also use some of each kind. When baking cookies in an air fryer, the ingredients are up to you.
Optional add-ins include chopped nuts (pecans, walnuts or mixed nuts) and M&Ms. Or how about caramel pieces or dried fruit?
How to Make Air Fried Cookies
Ready to get baking? This is how to make air fried cookies like a pro. First of all you need to mix the flour, salt and baking soda. Next mix the butter with the sugar, vanilla and egg. You will find this easier if the butter is at room temperature rather than cold from the refrigerator.
Mix in the flour mixture then stir in the chocolate chips. Make tablespoon-sized balls of dough and arrange them in the air fryer basket on parchment paper. Press them down a bit and let them cook.
Baking Cookies in an Air Fryer: How Long Do they Take?
Air fryer baking is quick and easy. These cookies only take about 5 minutes to bake. That’s right. You can’t even heat some ovens up in 5 minutes!
This air fryer cookie recipe is ideal if you’re craving cookies so badly you can’t wait for the oven to heat up and then for the cookies to bake in there. Sometimes when you’re hungry 20 minutes seems like an eternity. So these 5-minute easy air fryer chocolate chip cookies are perfect in more ways than one!
Air Fryer Baking Tips
Not all ovens are alike and that also applies to air fryers. Just because my cookies were done perfectly in 5 minutes doesn’t mean yours will be. Yours might take 4 minutes or they might take 7! Just keep an eye on them and you’ll see when they’re done because they’ll be crisp and golden.
I use parchment paper for air fryer baking. There’s nothing worse than when you don’t grease or line the air fryer basket and your food sticks!
This is equally annoying when cooking breaded chicken or making easy air fryer chocolate chip cookies. Invest in some good quality parchment paper, and you won’t have this issue.
How to Serve Air Fryer Cookies
How to cookies still warm from the oven (or, in this case, air fryer) sound to you? If the very thought is making your mouth water, you’re not alone! When your cookies are done, switch the air fryer off and open the basket. Let them sit in there on the parchment paper for 5 minutes (you don’t want to bite into molten chocolate) before eating.
Once you know how easy baking cookies in an air fryer is, you will want to rustle up a batch often. Enjoy a couple with a glass of icy cold milk before bed or have them as a snack with your morning latte. Make a few varieties of easy air fryer cookies to serve together. These air fryer sugar cookies are a great option.
Air Fryers Cook Cookies Evenly
Another great thing about easy air fryer chocolate chip cookies is they cook evenly. Air fryers cook by circulating hot air so theoretically foods should cook evenly all over. I say theoretically because there are always variables! But you don’t have to flip these halfway through the cooking time or anything.
Air Fryer Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Air Fryer Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 Cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 Teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 Teaspoon salt
- 1/2 Cup brown sugar
- 1/4 Cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 egg
- 1/2 Teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 Cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, use an electric mixer to blend the sugar, butter, egg and vanilla until smooth and creamy.
- Add the flour mixture, mixing just until combined.
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Preheat your air fryer by setting it to 350 degrees F and allowing it to warm while you form your cookie dough balls.
- Using a small cookie scoop, form tablespoon sized dough balls.
- When the air fryer is preheated, line the basket with a layer of parchment paper and place dough balls evenly apart.
- Press down lightly in the dough to gently flatten.
- Cook at 350 degrees F for 5 minutes or until the tops start to turn golden brown.
Nutrition
The nutrition information provided are only estimates based on an online nutritional calculator. I am not a certified nutritionist. Please consult a professional nutritionist or doctor for accurate information and any dietary restrictions and concerns you may have.
Knowing how to make air fried cookies means you can prepare them whenever you want. Just combine the ingredients, divide the dough and bake the cookies for as few as 5 minutes! Air fryer baking frees up your oven, in case you’re cooking something else in there, and your reward will be delicious, evenly cooked cookies every time!
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I must try these cookies!
So I bought my air fryer to make wings and what do I know… you can even make cookies in them. I am even more in love with the air fryer now!
Who’d have thought cookies in the air fryer would come out so good? But they did! Loved them. Have to make a new batch now!