Air Fryer Honey Chipotle Bacon Wrapped Tater Tot Bombs

These Air Fryer Honey Chipotle Bacon Wrapped Tater Tot Bombs are both savory and sweet. Just imagine taking a slice of bacon, brushing it with honey, sprinkling it with chipotle chile, and wrapping it around a Tater Tot.

These bacon-wrapped Tater Tots are baked in an air fryer, which is basically a small, high powered convection oven. The convection, or air flow, helps crisp whatever you are making.

An air fryer is great for heating up appetizers from the freezer section, or for making your own homemade snacks, mains, and side dishes. You can even use it for baking! My favorite dish to make in an air fryer is chicken wings. It really crisps them up and cooks them so fast.

Air Fryer Honey Chipotle Bacon Wrapped Tater Tots

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of Tater Tots.

My favorite Tater Tot recipes include individual breakfast casseroles, freezer breakfast burritos, this breakfast Tater Tot casserole, and this cowboy casserole.

While I love homemade versus convenience food, number one on my "I'm not sure it's worth the trouble because the store bought version is delicious" list: Tater Tots.

Making my own Tater Tots is still on the table, just for a challenge, but in the meantime, the store bought ones are such a guilty pleasure!

How to Make Air Fryer Bacon Wrapped Tater Tot Bombs:

I made these honey chipotle bacon wrapped Tater Tot bombs totally on a whim. I wanted to play around with my new air fryer (affiliate link) so I pulled out the little recipe book that came with it and found a recipe for bacon wrapped tater tots.

I decided to dress the recipe up with honey and chipotle chile to add some sweet and spicy flavors to this delicious and easy appetizer. These things were sinfully good.

Just cut some bacon strips in half width-wise, brush them with some warm honey, and sprinkle them with chipotle powder. Wrap the bacon around frozen Tater Tots, secure with a toothpick, and cook them in your air fryer for 8 to 14 minutes.

Air Fryer Honey Chipotle Bacon Wrapped Tater Tot Bombs before cooking

More about air fryers:

The reason for the large spread in cooking time is because not all air fryers are the same. Some need preheating and some don't, for example. The first time I made these, they took 14 minutes in the Avalon Bay air fryer, which also required preheating (see photo below).

I recently tried this recipe in the Philips Avance brand, which does not require preheating (at twice the price). In this case, the cooking time only took 8 minutes. There are lots of air fryers on the market that I haven't tried, but I would recommend both of the ones I've cited.

Air fryers are pretty convenient, especially when you are cooking for two or when don't what to turn on a full size oven. They are actually pretty mess free too and the basket is easy to clean. A great recipe book is Air Fryer Perfection from America's Test Kitchen.

Honey Chipotle Bacon Wrapped Tater Tot Bombs

This post has been spiffed up from September, 2017, with new photos, verbiage, and recipe card, plus, I got to serve and taste these again!

This month, the Fantastical Food Fight is all about Honey. Did you know that September is National Honey Month? To celebrate, we are posting recipes that include honey!

Be sure to check out what the rest of the group made.

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