Air Fryer Pumpkin Pie is delicious Fall dessert recipe. This pumpkin pie made in the air fryer is a classic tasting recipe. This recipe will yield two pumpkin pies.
Preheat the air fryer to 300° F for about 5 minutes.
Place the pastry into a 7 or 8-inch pie pan. Cut off any excess pastry (there should only be about 1 inch of pastry over the edge of the pie plate. Fold the edges of the pastry under itself to create a thicker crust along the edge. Then press into a scalloped pattern by pinching and crimping the pastry all the way around.
Press a sheet of tin foil over the pastry - the tin foil should be pressed into every nook of the crust and make sure it is larger than the crust so it can easily be removed later. Fill the tin foil with beans, pie weights, or rice. (This is to make sure the pastry retains its shape while baking.)
Blind bake the crust (this means there is no filling in it yet) for 10 minutes at 300° F*.
Then remove the tin foil containing the beans, weights, or rice. Prick the bottom of the crust with a fork about 10 times (this keeps it from puffing up too much) and bake at 300 for another 5 minutes.
While the crust is baking, use a hand mixer to combine the pumpkin, evaporated milk, brown sugar, white sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, salt, cloves. Once your batter is combined, mix in the eggs.
If you have an air fryer with a rack that allows you to cook both pies at the same time, you may get both of the pies ready to bake, otherwise bake them one at a time.
Set the temperature to 350° F and bake the pie for 20 minutes. The middle should be just set, not jiggly. If it is jiggly, bake at 5 minute intervals until done.
Cool the pies at room temperature for an hour, maximum 2 hours (Just remove the basket from the air fryer and do not remove the pie(s) from the basket - it is too hot and difficult to move.).
*Although some recipes say you don't need to blind bake the crust, the bottom of the crust does not cook completely that way. It is much better when you blind baked the crust.