Air Fryer Honey Roasted Peaches
Caramelised peach halves with honey, butter and toasted amaretti.
Before You Start
Roasting rescues almost any peach, including the disappointing rock-hard supermarket kind: ten minutes of heat concentrates the sugars and softens the flesh into something closer to dessert than fruit. Honey and butter baste them as they go, and crushed amaretti over the top do the crunch work. Ice cream isn't optional in spirit.
Instructions
-
Stir the melted butter, honey, cinnamon and vanilla together.
-
Sit the peach halves cut side up and brush them generously with the honey butter, letting it pool in the stone hollows.
-
Preheat the air fryer to 180°C / 350°F for 3 minutes.
-
Air fry the peaches cut side up for 10 to 12 minutes, brushing once more at 6 minutes, until soft through and caramelised at the edges.
-
Scatter the crushed amaretti over for the final 2 minutes so they toast.
-
Serve warm with ice cream or mascarpone, spooning over any butter from the basket drawer.
♨️ Air fryer notes
- Cook at 180°C / 350°F and preheat for 2 to 3 minutes for the crispiest result.
- Keep everything in a single layer with space around each piece. Overcrowding steams food instead of crisping it, so cook in batches if your basket is small.
- Shake or turn halfway, and check a few minutes early, since air fryers cook faster than ovens and every model runs slightly differently.
💡 Cook's tips
- Firm peaches genuinely work better here than perfectly ripe ones, which collapse. This is the recipe for the fruit bowl's mistakes.
- Cut side up the whole time. Flipped peaches lose their juice into the basket and arrive dry.
🔀 Make it your own
- Plums and apricots roast the same way, needing 2 fewer minutes.
- A sprig of thyme or rosemary in the honey butter makes it dinner-party shaped.
📦 Storing & reheating
Fridge for 3 days, and cold roasted peaches over yogurt and granola is a genuinely elite breakfast. Reheat at 160°C for 3 minutes if you want them warm again.
❓ Frequently asked
Can you roast peaches that aren't ripe?
Yes, and you should. Heat converts and concentrates their sugars, doing in 12 minutes what the fruit bowl needed a week for. Only truly rock-green fruit stays disappointing.
Do you peel peaches before roasting?
No. The skin holds the half together and turns soft and jammy at the edges. Peel after cooking if you must, when it slips off easily.
Adapting your own recipe? Use the oven to air fryer converter for temp and time, or the recipe scaler to halve or double this.
More air fryer recipes
A note on cooking safely. Recipes are provided for informational purposes only and are not medical or nutritional advice. Cooking times, temperatures and quantities are suggestions: use your own judgement, and check that meat, poultry, fish and eggs are properly cooked before serving.
Consult a qualified healthcare professional before making dietary changes, particularly if you have allergies, a medical condition or specific nutritional requirements.