7 min
Peanut Butter Cookies
Three ingredients, no flour, seven minutes. The one rule is not moving them until they cool, because sugar and peanut butter are all that hold them together.
Every cookie and bar I have baked in a basket, from a seven minute peanut butter cookie to a twenty seven minute lemon bar. Cookies run at 325°F and bars at 320°F on this site, and each card carries the time, the batch size and the reason those numbers are what they are. Converting a recipe of your own? Start with the air fryer calculator.
20 cookie and bar recipes
7 min
Peanut Butter Cookies
Three ingredients, no flour, seven minutes. The one rule is not moving them until they cool, because sugar and peanut butter are all that hold them together.
7 min in the basket · 16 cookies
8 min
Snickerdoodles
Real cream of tartar and a generous cinnamon sugar coat at 325F. The crackle is a sequence you can watch: it puffs, the shell sets, then it falls and splits.
8 min in the basket · 24 cookies
8 min
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Small batch, one bowl, 325F for eight minutes. Crisp at the edge and deliberately soft in the middle, which means pulling them looking underdone.
8 min in the basket · 12 cookies
8 min
Sugar Cookies
Eggless cut-outs that hold their shape at 325F. Twenty four from one batch, and the flat tops take icing without sliding.
8 min in the basket · 24 cookies
8 min
Monster Cookies
Flourless and loaded: oats, peanut butter, chocolate and candies in one bowl with no mixer and nothing to cream.
8 min in the basket · 14 cookies
8 min
Rice Krispie Treats
No stove at all. The marshmallows toast in the basket first, which is a flavor the microwave version never gets near.
8 min in the basket · 9 squares
8 min
Refrigerated Cookie Dough
Pillsbury and every other tube, at 320F rather than the 350F printed on the bag. Times by format, from squares to roll slices to tub scoops.
8 min in the basket
10 min
Gingerbread Cookies
One dough, two textures. Pull early for soft and chewy, or run it the full time for the snap that holds an icing line.
10 min in the basket · 24 cookies
11 min
Frozen Cookie Dough
Straight from the freezer with no thawing at 325F. Times by ball size, including the bakery-size pucks that need a lower dial instead of a longer clock.
11 min in the basket
12 min
Shortbread Cookies
Three ingredients and a low 300F, because pale is the point here. Shortbread that has browned has already gone past itself.
12 min in the basket · 12 cookies
12 min
Coconut Macaroons
One egg white, naturally gluten free, and 300F so the coconut turns golden at the tips instead of dark all over.
12 min in the basket · 14 macaroons
12 min
Oatmeal Cookies
Soft centers and lightly crisp edges. The oldest cookie recipe on this site and still the one that gets made on a weeknight.
12 min in the basket · 12 cookies
20 min
Blondies
Melted butter, all brown sugar, and out at 165 to 175F while the middle still looks underdone. A blondie that looks done is overbaked.
20 min in the basket · 9 squares
22 min
Brownies
Deep and fudgy from one bowl at 320F, pulled early. The toothpick test lies about brownies, so this one runs on a thermometer instead.
22 min in the basket · 9 squares
24 min
Brookies
Cookie dough on the bottom, brownie batter over it, cookie coins on top as the foil-tent timer. One thermometer reading gets both layers right.
24 min in the basket · 9 squares
24 min
Magic Bars
Seven layers with the coconut buried under the condensed milk, which is the only place a basket cannot scorch it. Done when the edges bubble caramel-gold.
24 min in the basket · 16 bars
24 min
Cheesecake Bars
No water bath and no springform. The filling is shallow enough to bake evenly on its own, and the jiggle test is finally defined properly.
24 min in the basket · 16 bars
25 min
Biscotti
Twice baked, sliced at the fifteen minute mark. The second pass is what makes it biscotti rather than a sweet loaf you cut up.
25 min in the basket · 18 biscotti
27 min
Lemon Bars
A shortbread base, then curd poured on while the base is still hot. The chill is what sets it, not the bake.
27 min in the basket · 9 bars
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