Air Fryer Pancakes with berries and maple syrup

Temp180°C / 350°F
Cook10 min

Start your day right with these air fried pancakes. Serve with maple syrup, fresh berries and a dusting of icing sugar. Yum!

Maple syrup poured on a stack of pancakes with fresh berries

How do I make pancakes in an air fryer?

You'll need to use some sort of tray to hold the pancake batter while it air fries. Mini pie tins or silicone muffin cups can work. But they tend to have a narrow bottom. The best ones out there are silicone air fryer egg pan.

But instead you can cut out your own trays using aluminum foil.

Pancake moulds make of aluminum

Make some aluminum pancake trays

All you need is a small bowl or ramequin, and some aluminum foil.

Start by placing your bowl upside-down in your air fryer basket to see how many you can fit. With my bowl in the corner, I can see I should fit about 4 trays comfortably.

Upside down bowl in air fryer basket

Then flip the bowl over, and line it with a sheet of foil about 1/2 inch over the sides.

Upside down bowl on foil

Make sure it's a nice tight fit and there are no gaps for the batter to leak through.

Upside down bowl with foil wrapped beneath

Now you can remove the bowl, and you're left with a mold to pour in your pancake batter!

Aluminum foil shaped into a pancake mould

Place them into your air fryer basket.

4 aluminum foil moulds in an air fryer basket

Give them a good spray of oil to prevent the batter from sticking.

Spraying oil into aluminum foil moulds

Then set them aside while you begin making the batter.

Trays sprayed with oil

How many pancakes can fit in an air fryer?

For a large air fryer baskets (> 5.5L), you should be able to squeeze in 4 mini pancakes, one in each corner. So I'll make a total of 4 foil trays.

For smaller baskets (< 4.1L) you might only be able to get 1 or 2 trays in there.

How to make 'shake and pour' pancake batter?

Today I'm using up a bottle of "shake and pour" pancake mix. Bought it at Aldi for $3. Bottle says it makes up to 15 pancakes. I got about 8 mini pancakes out of it. Could probably push it to 12-16 if I poured them thinner. So keep that mind when making yours.

Bottle of pancake shake made up

Just need to fill up the bottle to the water mark, and give it a good shake for 1 minute.

Instructions for pancake shake bottle

I like to preheat my air fryer to make sure it's up to temp before air frying. My tin trays are outside the basket, and I've set my air fryer to 350F/180C for 3 minutes.

Cosori Air Fryer 5.5L

Once heated, I began to pour a thin layer of batter into the trays.

Pouring pancake batter into foil trays

Careful not to overfill them. Keep them thin to cook quickly and evenly.

Pouring pancake batter into foil tray

At this point I realized I should have placed the empty foil trays in the air fryer basket first before pouring!

Foil trays in air fryer basket

Fill up the rest of your pancake trays in your basket.

Pouring pancake batter into foil trays

Once they're all filled, put the basket back into the air fryer and begin cooking!

Pancake batter in foil trays

Air fry for at 350F/180C for 5 min. They'll be light browned, and only halfway done.

Half-cooked pancakes in foil trays

Gently peel them off their trays, and give them a flip to brown the other side.

Peeling foil tray from pancake

Flipped pancake in air fryer basket

Then air fry them for another 5 minutes. They should be a nice golden brown color and ready to eat!

Flipped pancakes in air fryer basket

I had enough batter to make 8 pancakes. So I set aside these cooked ones, and re-used the foil tray for the next batch. Just give them another good spray of oil before laying down your next batter.

Empty foil trays in air fryer basket

What to serve your pancakes with?

Sweet or savory or both, server your pancakes with fresh fruit, maple syrup, or breakfast sausages and bacon.

I made this batch with melted butter, fresh raspberries, blueberries and maple syrup. Then dusted it with some icing sugar.

Stack of pancakes on a plate

Pancakes with fresh berries, maple syrup, and icing sugar

Phil, thoughts?

If you're cooking for one or two people, and you only have an air fryer to cook with. Then yes, this is a great way to make fluffy, light, delicious pancakes. Keep in mind it would take about 15 min to cook up 8 mini pancakes.

But if I'm making breakfast for the whole fam, and you had an outdoor griddle at your disposal, then you bet your sweet syrup I'll be griddling some cakes.

So yeah, if you're making smaller batches air fry them! Won't have to do any washing up. Just throw away your foil trays and give the basket a wipe out and you're done.

Pancake stack with melted butter

Air Fryer Pancakes with berries and maple syrup


Temp180°C / 350°F
Time10 min
Start your day right with these air fried pancakes. Serve with maple syrup, fresh berries and a dusting of icing sugar. Yum!

Ingredients

  • 1 bottle of pancake 'shake' batter (375 g)
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup
  • 1/4 fresh berries
  • 1 tsp icing sugar

Instructions

  • Cut out 4 pancake moulds using foil to fit your air fryer
  • Preheat your air fryer for 3 minutes on 350F/180C
  • Prepare your pancake batter
  • Pour batter into the molds
  • Air fry for 5 minutes 350F/180C
  • Remove tray then flip the pancakes
  • Air fry for another 5 minutes

Updated on February 27, 2024

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