Hope you want your cream cheese puffy.
Good day, there. I am Shelby, and like many different millennials earlier than me, I lastly broke down and purchased an air fryer (a Ninja Digital Air Fry Countertop Oven, to be actual). And lemme inform you, I have never seemed again.
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Leftover pizza? Air fryer. Veggies? Air fryer. Just about something I am too lazy to prepare dinner within the precise oven? Air fryer.
Within the video, which has been considered over 11 MILLION TIMES, @whatsmomcookin — whose actual title is Carman — slathers her bagels in cream cheese, throws on a touch of cinnamon, and pops them within the air fryer.
What emerges appears to be like like two disks of crispy, crunchy, gooey deliciousness.
Then she tops them with some honey, and voilà!
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Carman defined to BuzzFeed that she’s been growing recipes and sharing them on TikTok for a couple of yr and a half. In the future she determined to attempt placing her bagels within the air fryer, and he or she liked it. “I had been consuming them day by day for a couple of week once I determined to do the video,” she stated.
I simply so occurred to have all the required substances readily available, so I made a decision to check out the recipe for myself.
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Be aware: Carman appeared to make use of plain bagels in her video, however I solely had cinnamon raisin bagels. I figured it went nicely with the cinnamony theme, so that is what I used! Plus, I really feel like this may work with any type of bagel you’d wish to attempt.
Additionally, I used whipped cream cheese from Dealer Joe’s, so outcomes might fluctuate if you happen to determine to make use of conventional cream cheese.
Carman did not give any particular measurements for the recipe, so I mainly went with what my coronary heart advised me for the quantity of cream cheese. As soon as the bagels have been sufficiently lined, I popped them within the air fryer at 400 levels Fahrenheit for 5 minutes*.
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*I used this temp and cooking time as a result of that is what Carman stated she used, however she additionally made some extent to say that every one air fryers prepare dinner otherwise, so this might fluctuate primarily based on the sort you personal.
When my bagels emerged, they seemed A LOT extra burnt than Carman’s, and I spotted I forgot to place the cinnamon on beforehand! Rookie mistake.
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However I wasn’t about to be deterred! I attempted once more with a brand new bagel slice, ensuring to mud it with cinnamon and decreasing my cooking time by one minute. That is what it seemed like:
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Instantly, I observed that the cream cheese seemed raised, virtually as if it had been aerated. Desperate to lastly attempt it, I threw on some honey and bought to tasting.
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My first impression: fairly dang yummy! The bagel was toasted on the skin however nonetheless very fluffy on the within, and the cinnamon-honey combo was DIVINE.
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By far probably the most attention-grabbing and possibly most divisive facet of the recipe was the cream cheese. Identical to the bagel, it had a fluffy texture on the within, and virtually a crisp outer shell. And, simply as I suspected, it rose fairly a bit, because of the air-frying. I did not thoughts the feel however wasn’t certain how I felt in regards to the super-warm cream cheese. Nonetheless presently debating.
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I do know that not everybody has entry to an air fryer, so I made a decision to additionally check out Carman’s recipe within the toaster oven to see if it will have the identical impact. Since my air fryer is multifunction, I merely switched it to the “bagel/toast” setting and toasted it beneath “medium darkness” for about 5 minutes. We love an equipment that may multitask!
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That is what the toaster oven bagel seemed like — IMHO, fairly comparable, though not QUITE as crispy-looking.
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Here is a side-by-side comparability:
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Style-wise, it was…first rate, however not fairly nearly as good. The bagel wasn’t as toasted (though you may in all probability toast it for longer to get extra of a crunch), and the cream cheese was severely missing. Whereas the air fryer methodology appeared to essentially aerate the unfold and make it fluffy, toasting it type of melted and flattened it, giving it a type of curdled/gritty texture that I did not like in any respect.
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So, to get the total impact of this recipe, you will in all probability want an air fryer.
General, I liked how the air fryer completely toasted the bagel (MUCH higher than the toaster oven), and the cinnamon paired with honey was tremendous decadent and comforting. I believe that if you happen to aren’t certain about heat, aerated cream cheese — like me — a hack is to use the cream cheese after air-frying your bagel (simply know that the flavour/texture will not be precisely the identical as the unique recipe).
What do you consider this recipe? Would you attempt it? The place do you stand on aerated cream cheese? Inform us within the feedback!
