Boxed or Homemade Air Fryer Muffins

Air fryer muffins are such a great breakfast or dessert. Use boxed or use our homemade blueberry muffin recipe. Baked to perfection.

Air Fryer Blueberry Muffins

This is probably one of our favorite air fryer breakfast recipes ever. We feature fruit muffins here as you can see but you can make any type you like. Have ripe bananas at hand, use them with your favorite recipe and our temp and cook time below. From banana bread muffins, to chocolate, pumpkin and everything in between these are great.

It doesn’t matter what brand machine you have, they’re all basically the same. The biggest difference is the size of the air fryer basket. I love my Foodi and this one above with a square basket.

Even some convection ovens have an air fry function. They’re more and more common nowadays. If yours has shelves you could use a very small muffin pan inside.

Air Fryer Banana Muffins

You really could use any type of berry, or chocolate chips instead. Our huckleberry muffins are just as amazing. Don’t want them sweet? Try our veggie muffins recipe instead and use this timing.

Muffins in Air Fryer

Like I said at the beginning, you can use boxed blueberry muffin mix here if you want to speed things up. Below are the muffin ingredients we used to make them homemade.

You can use this easy muffin recipe to make any variety you’d like, it’s a great basic batter. It uses all purpose flour, if that is all you have then use it instead.

1. Self rising flour
   1. NOT all purpose, here’s a flour substitution chart
   2. This is how to measure flour properly
2. Sugar
3. Cinnamon
4. Milk
5. Butter
6. Egg
7. Vanilla
8. Fresh blueberries should be folded in at the end
9. Silicone muffin cups

Ninja Foodi Muffins

The colorful muffin cups you see here are very versatile and really the best way to bake in an air fryer. Paper baking cups will flatten with the weight of the batter = no good.

As with any other baked good you’ll need to have 2 bowls to whisk the dry ingredients, wet ingredients and then combine the two. It’s quick and easy to do in about 5 minutes.

• Including cook time you can have these done in about 15 minutes, much faster than using an oven.
• You can jump to recipe below and print it too if you’d like. Keep it handy for other mornings, or just come back and “see us”.

From there use your imagination and make “all the things” like apple zucchini muffins and more.

How to Bake Muffins in Air Fryer

Here’s a quick step by step but full instructions are at the very bottom of this post.

This is what they should look like when they’re done!! Once they’re lightly browned on top they should be perfect. You don’t want to over-bake them so the inside is dry. When the toothpick inserted is MOSTLY clean it’s done.

Muffins in Air Fryer Time

Refer to the easy recipe instructions below. If you want to try other air fryer muffin recipes, these are a few favorites:

• Our pumpkin zucchini muffins are out of this world.
• Make easy banana bread muffins some time.
• Banana zucchini muffins are great especially during the summertime when your vegetable garden is going crazy with squash.

If you want to add some protein to your morning meal, pair these with an air fryer quiche.

I haven’t tried this with frozen fruit that has been defrosted. If that is all you can find I am sure it is better than nothing. The only issue I see is that they’ll emit liquid when thawing out. You’ll need to drain this before adding in.

Because of this they won’t be quite as moist either. The juices from the blueberries doesn’t really stay in well when they’re frozen. There’s my 2 cents on that anyway….take it for what it’s worth. 😉

Nutritional information is also included below. Accurate if you use exactly what is listed in the recipe card and don’t stray from it.