What is hot honey, and how do you use it?

Want to try the trend yourself? Be inspired by our favourite hot honey recipes.

“If there’s a toast combination I could eat on repeat, it’s this one,” says Emily English, AKA @emthenutritionist. Her hot honey recipe, featured here, combines hot honey and avocado on cottage cheese toasts. This reached millions of people when it was shared on Instagram, proving this easy method for how to use hot honey is a winner every time. Simply infuse honey with chilli flakes and drizzle over creamy cottage cheese.

Our smokin’ hot honey marinade is a little jar packed with big, sweet-and-spicy flavours. In this hot honey recipe, marinade chicken thighs, cook them low and slow. Next, pile on top of ready-made frozen French fries with cheese and smoky paprika butter in this epic Friday night sharing feast.

Tom Kerridge’s easy sticky chicken wings are sure to become one of your new family favourite hot honey ideas. Chicken wings are great value, too, making this a brilliant choice for a family dinner that still packs a proper flavour punch.

This easy veggie recipe shows you how to use hot honey with just four ingredients while tasting incredible. Halloumi is fried with our smokin’ hot honey marinade until it’s seriously sticky and golden, then piled into Greek-style flatbreads with crunchy salad.

Add hot honey to this summery fruit salad to hit all the right spicy, sweet notes. The hot honey dressing is infused with lime juice and fresh mint, ready to be drizzled over fresh pineapple. Allow the pineapple to sit in the dressing for a couple of hours, if you can, to let the flavours mingle.

The only thing that can make a spicy marg even better? Adding hot honey and serving with a bowl of hot honey-roasted nuts and seeds. In this hot honey recipe, a classic margarita gets a spicy twist – add hot honey to your shaker along with your tequila and get shaking.