Cheat's air fryer banana bread cruffins recipe

Name: Cheat's air fryer banana bread cruffins recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2 x 275g tubes Jus-Rol Pains au Chocolat Kits; Plain flour, to dust; 25 g butter, softened, plus extra to grease; 1 ripe banana, mashed; 65 g light brown soft sugar; 1 tsp. ground cinnamon

Gooey banana bread + flaky cruffins = a match made in heaven

By Alice ShieldsPublished: 21 August 2025

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Upgrade your breakfast with our cheat’s banana bread cruffin recipe. You can cook these cruffins in a conventional oven (see below), but they also work well in the air fryer. Simply preheat your air fryer to 160°C and make cruffins according to recipe and cook in an air fryer-suitable muffin tin, in batches if needed, for 17-20min.

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Yields:

8 serving(s)

Prep Time:

30 mins

Cook Time:

20 mins

Total Time:

50 mins

Ingredients

2
x 275g tubes Jus-Rol Pains au Chocolat Kits
Plain flour, to dust

FOR THE FILLING AND TOPPING

25 g
butter, softened, plus extra to grease
1
ripe banana, mashed
65 g
light brown soft sugar
1 tsp.
ground cinnamon

Directions

1. Step 1Unpack and unroll both pain au chocolat doughs on to a lightly floured work surface and arrange 1 above the other, with a long side just overlapping, to make a large rectangle, roughly 22 x 45cm. Pinch together the serrated seams and the overlapping edge.
2. Step 2For the filling, in a small bowl mix the butter, mashed banana and 25g sugar until combined. Spread over the dough. Roughly chop the chocolate batons that come in the kit and sprinkle over.
3. Step 3Roll up as tightly as you can from a long edge. Cut into 8 equal rolls. Arrange the rolls in a muffin tin.
4. Step 4Press down on the rolls with the palm of your hand to flatten to roughly the level of the top of the tin. Loosely cover with greased clingfilm (butter-side down).
5. Step 5Set aside at room temperature for 20-30min, or until slightly risen.
6. Step 6Preheat oven to 190°C (170°C fan) mark 5. Uncover and bake the cruffins for 20min, or until deeply golden. Leave to cool in the tin for 5min, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. For the topping, in a shallow bowl mix the remaining 40g sugar and cinnamon.
7. Step 7Roll the cooled cruffins in the cinnamon sugar to coat and serve.

GET AHEAD
Prepare to end of step 4 the evening before you want to serve. Chill. Complete recipe to serve.

These cruffins are best eaten on the day they are made, but they will keep for up to 1 day, stored in an airtight container at room temperature. Gently warm in a low oven to serve

If you like this recipe, you’ll love our cheat’s cinnamon cruffins.

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Alice Shields

Senior Cookery Writer

Alice Shields is Senior Cookery Writer for Good Housekeeping. A trained pastry chef, you’ll find her food styling on photo shoots, developing delicious recipes and writing about all things food. She loves to bake and her favourite pudding will always be a chocolate fondant. Originally hailing from Lancashire, she finally achieved her goal of getting a butter pie recipe into the magazine.

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