Bagel Bites Stuffed with Cream Cheese (Air Fryer!!)

Stuffed bagel bites in the air fryer has become a weekend regular in our household! I love bagels [check out my favorite bagel place when you are in Seattle!], but they are time intensive and not always a task I want to dive into on a Saturday morning. Thus, I was pumped when I found this air fryer bagel bite recipe from skinnytaste! The recipe is very simple, includes ingredients I often already have in my house, and it is quick to make in the air fryer! The original recipe has directions for making these in the oven, but I have only ever made them in our air fryer. 

This recipe makes 8 bagel bites.

 

Ingredients:

1 cup of all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

¾ tsp salt

1 cup Greek yogurt [I use 0% Fage]

4oz cream cheese, cut into 8 cubes

1 egg white, beaten

Everything bagel seasoning [you can buy this at Trader Joes but we make our own!]

Directions:

1. Prepare the everything bagel seasoning: 1 tsp. sesame seeds, 1 tsp garlic powder, ½ tsp onion powder, ½ tsp poppy seed, salt and pepper to season
2. Spray the air fryer basket
3. Pre-heat the air fryer to 325 degrees F
4. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl
5. Add the yogurt to the dry ingredients and mix with a fork [it will look like small crumbles]
6. Dusk your counter or work surface and knead the dough a few times until it is no longer sticky but tacky
7. Divide the dough into 8 equal balls [I use a kitchen scale, diving the dough first in half, and then each half into half again, and then each piece half again]
8. Flatten out each piece of dough into a disk/circle and place one piece of cream cheese on the dough. Fold the dough over the cream cheese to make a ball and roll on the counter to seal the ball.
9. Top the bagel bites with the egg wash and the everything bagel seasoning
10. Cook the first 4 bagel bites in the air fryer for 12 minutes. Then cook the remaining 4 bagel bites.
11. Allow bagel bites to cool for 10 minutes before eating.

*Pro-tip: I love chives in cream cheese. You can also cut up chive and mix in chive and garlic powder into your cream cheese before dividing into 8 parts if you want flavored cream cheese.