The recipe of the anti waste chocolate cake with the air fryer

The air fryer likes more and more, not only because it is, in all respects, a very powerful ventilated oven (it reaches up to200 °), as well as compact and with an increasingly refined design. But also because the air fryer cooks the foods in a uniform and fast way, allowing to fry with the minimum or null use of oil. Data in hand, the air fryer would seem the most successful appliance in recent years. According to the Annual Consumption Observatory of Findomestic in 2024, sales in value of the air fryer increased by 30.2%. Even online searches have shown that Italians have great interest in air fryers (over 43 thousand research against 7 thousand on traditional fryers, source Trovaprezzi.it). And to think that about twenty years ago, when he entered the Italian market, it was a flop. Over time, the appliances brands have tried to focus on the development of technology, therefore performance, as well as on design, like the last air fryer presented by Philips 3000 Airfryer series, also with double basket, with touch screen with 8 pre -sets for cooking in a simple way. Beautiful to look at, in the black version with bronze handles, there is also the model with a single basket (washable in the dishwasher), which has a cooking control window and 16 cooking functions in 1.

The air fryer tried by @rucoolaaa

“The air fryer saves me a lot of time and also electricity!”, Explains Alessio Cicchini, called to test it for his preparations No Waste. Better known as @rucoolaaa On social networks, Alessio is a content creator expert on food waste and vegetarian cuisine. For this reason he thought of a recipe for a dessert to prepare with the air fryer Philips 3000 Airfryer series with double basket: the soft chocolate and cauliflower cake, tahina frosting and crunchy sesame. “I often work with roasting and drying, which in the air fryer not only are perfect for me, but they do even better”. Through an ironic and lively approach, Alessio has always shared his idea not to waste food in the kitchen, transforming waste into delicious dishes, just like this cake. “The air fryer is versatile and I use it practically for everything, both to melt the chocolate of this cake, and for the crispy leek chips, which I love, up to the salted muffins made with advanced rice and beets”.

The recipe for the soft chocolate and cauliflower cake

• 170 g peaks of boiled or steamed bugs without salt
• 60 ml sunflower oil
• 100 ml lacticel (almond milk + 5 g of lemon; 10 min of rest)
• 160 g Farina 0
• 40 g melted dark chocolate
• 100 g soy yogurt
• 180 g brown sugar
• 25 g bitter cocoa
• 8 g yeast for sweets
• Pinch of salt

• 250 g vegetable butter or vegetable spreadable (type philadelphia)
• 75 g tahina

Crunchy sesame (about 20-30 g)

• 40 g sugar
• 20 g water

1. Toast the sesame in AIFRYER 4 minutes at 190 degrees. Mix 40 g sugar and 20 g water, add in the sesame pan, then cook in AIFRYER for 10 minutes at 185 degrees.
2. In the meantime, in the small basket, melt the chocolate in a baking dish for 2 minutes at 160 degrees. Roll out the crunchy sesame on parchment paper, close in package and level. Let cool.
3. Blend the cauliflower with the dairy and the seed oil. Mix the liquids with the solids, pour into a pan lined with a veil of margarine and cook with the airfryer program for desserts at 160 degrees for 30 minutes.

Franches of chocolate cake, cauliflower and frosting with tahina and crunchy with @rucoolaaa sesame prepared with the air fryer Philips 3000 Airfryer series with double basket.