Make your own homemade Hot Honey with our easy recipe. Peppers simmer with honey for the perfect combination of sweet with a kick of heat.

Hot Honey Recipe
Have you heard about the new honey craze? Let me tell you about it. Hot honey combines the spice of peppers with the sweetness of honey by simmering them together.
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Now you can just go out and buy hot honey but that’s no fun, especially when it’s so easy to make your own. And it literally takes just minutes to make a homemade hot honey.
By choosing peppers with different heat levels you can personalize your hot honey and make it as spicy as you want. Add as many or as little as you want to control the heat.
For our Hot Honey recipe, I used a combination of peppers including crushed red pepper flakes, for a kick of flavor.
You can use just jalapenos, jalapenos with red pepper flakes, or an assortment of peppers and flakes as I did. The choice is yours.
Love that extra kick of heat? Be sure to use the seeds too!
So fill your honey jar with this trendy pepper infused honey. You’ll be so happy you did!
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How to make hot honey

- Chop peppers
- Combine peppers, red pepper flakes and honey in a small saucepot
- Simmer for 5 minutes
- Strain and cool
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

- Use just one type of pepper or a combination of peppers
- Add the seeds for an extra kick of heat
- Cool and then strain for extra heat
How to use hot honey

- Drizzle over fried chicken
- Toss chicken wings in hot honey
- Add to your cup of tea
- Drizzle over biscuits
- Drizzle over pizza, especially pepperoni pizza!
- Use as the sweetener and flavoring in a vinaigrette
Ingredients you will need to make this recipe

- Honey
- Peppers
- Red pepper flakes
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- 1 cup pasteurized honey
- Assorted peppers chopped and sliced
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
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Combine honey, peppers and red pepper flakes in saucepot.
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Bring mixture to a simmer over medium heat. Simmer 5 minutes.
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Strain and cool.
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Cover and refrigerate.
Makes 1 cup/16 servings
1 Tablespoon per serving
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Use a combination of peppers or just one type of pepper
- For an extra kick of heat add the seeds
- Cool with peppers and then strain for extra heat
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