Air fryer cake will become your new favorite dessert! Ooey gooey chocolate lava cake made in ramekins inside your Ninja Foodi or other brand.
Have you tried an air fryer cake yet? Not a normal cake, but individual lava cakes that are pure bites of heaven I tell you. If you love chocolate and want to try a new air fryer recipe this week, this is it! (originally published 11/19, affiliate links present)
If you love air fryer recipes too, here are some resources to start with:
- THIS is my Favorite Air Fryer!
- You can find more Air fryer recipes here, we have Ninja Foodi recipes as well; bookmark them both!
- Grab the best air fryer cookbook here.
- Here’s a printable air fryer cook times chart here for your fridge.
- It has temp. and times for making the best frozen foods for air fryer too.
- Then join our Facebook page where you can share and find more ideas you’ll love. We have a Foodi social media group as well.
I wasn’t so sure how well it would work to be honest. If you follow this cooking method though, it works great! I like how they’re already portioned out and come out super moist too.
It is a convection oven after all so yes! Don’t forget you probably have some in your cabinet already you can use. Tea cups work great too if they are oven safe.
The size of your air fryer will determine what size ramekins you get.
Hope in this post, it has been answered for you. YES you can! It is just one of the many ways we’ve made desserts at home.
I suppose you could use boxed cake mix for this but the homemade chocolate cake recipe below is better and super easy. When making a Ninja Foodi cake the other way I used the bake function. If your machine doesn’t have that, this method won’t work.
Is air fryer better than oven?
- While a convection oven and an air fryer both use a fan to move hot air around, an air fryer circulates the it more rapidly, speeding up the cooking process.
- Air fryers are healthier than deep frying and there’s no risk of an oily mess.
Air fryer cake
- 4 ounce ramekins
- if using different sizes the cooking timing will just need to be adjusted more or less
- non stick cooking spray is very helpful if you want to serve on plates
- Butter
- Chocolate chips
- Eggs
- Sugar
- Self rising flour
You can add more chocolate chips on top if you want them to be really ooey gooey and wet when they’re done.
Of course adjust things as you go but for your first batch I’d follow the instructions as written. Experiment from there and make a few other air fryer dessert recipes too!
This is the air fryer we used for this batch. Some air fryer baskets are rather small so you may only be able to fit 2 or 3 of them at a time. Just cook in batches until you have as many as you’d like.
Steps to take:
Time needed: 12 minutes.
Cake in air fryer
- Mix ingredients
Melt butter and chocolate chips until smooth. Can be done in a microwave for 30 seconds at a time, stirring in between sessions.
Whisk together sugar and eggs, then combine the two.
Fold in flour until well combined, then add into greased ramekins. divide between 4 equally. - Preheat
Preheat air fryer at 370 for 5 minutes.
- Bake
Put baby cake pans into air fryer basket and cook at 370 degrees for 10 minutes, take out once toothpick comes out somewhat clean when pushed into the middle (you want a bit of gooey)
- Cool
Allow to sit on cooling rack for 2-4 minutes to solidify if you want to flip on to a plate and stay in tact.
This whole process will take about 15 minutes before your dream dessert is done! So. Fast. I know!
- Pressure cooker chocolate lava cake
- Air fryer cookies are fabulous
- Crockpot lava cake with cherry pie filling is heavenly
- And this is how to make a brownie in a mug
Boxed cake in an air fryer
Make the cake mix, per the instructions on the package. Then set the air fryer safe pan with the cake mix inside of it into the air fryer. Set the time for 20 minutes at 320 degrees F.
You can bake a cake as well as other breakfast sweet breads in your machine like air fryer banana bread. Use boxed muffin mix to make air fryer muffins now too.
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Air Fryer Cake
Ingredients
- 7 tbsp butter
- 1 c chocolate chips used dark chocolate
- 2 eggs
- 3.5 tbsp sugar
- 1.5 tbsp self rising flour not all purpose
Instructions
- Melt chocolate chips and butter together in the microwave. Put in for 30 sec., stir, 30 sec. until it is melted and smooth.
- Whisk together eggs and sugar in separate bowl. Then whisk egg mixture and chocolate together until combined and smooth.
- Then mix in flour until smooth.
- Pour batter equally into 4 oven safe ramekins. Fill 3/4 full.
- Put in air fryer basket for 10 minutes at 370 degrees, then allow to cool for 2 minutes before flipping over on to plates (or eat right out of them but they will be hot).
Cindy says
Very good,came out perfectly. I used a 6.5 quart Ninja!!
Kathy Soule says
Not near enough time. I did 370 for 10 min and was totally raw. Just the edges were done. Put in for another 10 and the top was charred. Just scrapped the top off. Was much better. Maybe 5 min instead of 10. Made my own Sr flour.
Kim says
That is not the recommended temp or time. That is probably the problem.
Ryan says
I cannot see where you say Kathy Soule used the wrong time and temp. Recipe directions read: Put in air fryer basket for 10 minutes at 370 degrees, then let cool for 2 minutes. Exactly how she baked the cakes.
Kathy Soule says
Made them again this time A Success. Used by air fryer this time I used my Ninja Foodi
I think there is more air flow. The Foodi doesn’t have a 370 it has 365 and a 375. I did 360 for about 12 minutes. Crispy around the and a small puddle at the bottom
483 Calories