Did you know that air fryers can make perfect pancakes? When Currys posted a video on TikTok showing how to do just that, it went viral. And with searches for air fryers up 350% year-on-year, according to Google Trends, it’s hardly surprising.

An ideal hack for Pancake Day, the Currys air fryer method makes a stack of six fluffy pancakes – all in one go – using a Tefal Easy Fry. No more flip-assemble-eat-repeat, just batch-baking at its finest.

Once you’ve tried out these pancakes, you can start using your air fryer to cook all kinds of tempting cakes and bakes.

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Air fryer pancakes

So how do you make pancakes in an air fryer? First up, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• 1 tbsp melted unsalted butter (14g)
• 200g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 egg
• 250ml milk
• 2 tbsp caster sugar
• greaseproof paper

The video shows a Currys kitchen expert pouring pancake batter on top of greaseproof paper inside the air fryer basket, adding another layer of greaseproof paper and pouring another round of pancake batter, and so on.

Does it really work?

But does the air fryer pancakes hack actually work? Air fryer fans have been trying the recipe themselves, and had mixed results.

One person commented on the TikTok video, ‘I do this all the time….so good!’, while another said ‘there would be a pancake mix tornado occurring in my air fryer!’.

The most common question in the comments though, was how long do you cook them for and at what temperature?

Currys recommends selecting the air fry programme at 200ºC and baking the pancakes for five minutes, flipping them halfway through.

Another commentator recommended greasing the greaseproof paper with butter or oil before pouring the batter on top, and adding butter to the top pancake ‘when it was about halfway cooked’, adding that they ‘came out great’.

The kitchen expert in the TikTok video used the Tefal Easy Fry 3-in-1 Air Fryer to make the pancakes, which is currently available from Currys for just £159.