Hot Honey

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You can make hot honey in just a few minutes with only 3 ingredients! Use it as a sauce or a dip to dress up your favorite foods with a little spicy sweetness.

Just as obsessed with hot honey as the rest of the world? We have good news, then – you can make this simple condiment at home with just 3 ingredients. Say goodbye to spending upwards of $7 on a bottle of the good stuff and try our from scratch hot honey recipe instead!

What This Recipe Entails

This recipe is super simple. With just a couple minutes and 3 ingredients you’ll have a spicy sweet honey that can be added to all your favorite recipes.

• Prep time: 3 minutes

To make hot honey, you are going to need the following 3 ingredients:

• Honey
• Chili oil
• White vinegar

Hot honey is basically just spicy honey – so adding some chili oil to honey brings the heat! We also like to add a dash of white vinegar to our hot honey to thin it out, making it easier to drizzle over your favorite foods like pizza, sandwiches, and toast.

How To Make Hot Honey

Once you have your ingredients collected, the rest is really easy! Just two simple steps and you’ll be ready to enjoy your hot honey:

1. Add all ingredients to a bowl and whisk vigorously until well combined.
2. Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 month.

And that’s all you really need to know!

Note: You may be able to store hot honey for longer than 1 month, but it will taste best within the first month. Once you notice it starting to crystallize and separate, it’s gone bad and you should throw it out.

The only question left is what are you gonna use all that sticky sweet, spicy goodness for? For ideas for the best recipes and uses for this hot honey sauce, continue on to the next section!

Recipes To Make With Hot Honey

If you love hot honey or have some extra laying around, here are some recipes that either use hot honey or you could add hot honey to for a fun twist:

• Pepperoni pizza with ricotta and hot honey
• Pepperoni pizza panini
• Homemade pizza bagels
• Fried chicken and waffles
• Baked brie or whipped brie
• Grilled chicken
• Cornbread
• Any kind of toast (including avocado toast!)
• Grilled cheese sandwiches
• Bacon egg and cheese sandwich

Hot honey is a great addition to so many recipes thanks to the spicy sweetness that it adds. You can add it to anything that you regularly add a sweetener to such as regular honey, maple syrup, or agave nectar. Also look to add it to savory dishes, as the sweet and spicy tends to go really well with something salty. 

And of course, hot honey can be used as a great dip! Whether for soft pretzels, chicken tenders, french fries, or onion rings – it hits the spot no matter what.