This easy hot honey recipe is made with 3 ingredients, is ready in minutes, and makes the best hot sauce! It stores well in an airtight container in the pantry for endless possibilities!
Add the honey, red pepper flakes, and apple cider vinegar to a non-reactive saucepan set over a low simmer for 10 minutes.
Pour the hot honey through a fine mesh strainer and into a non-reactive container. Optionally, if you like your hot honey very spicy, you can leave the red pepper flakes in the honey and not strain it when pouring into a container to store. Note that It will continue to extract heat from the pepper flakes.
Notes
Recipe makes approximately 1 cup of hot honey. Can increase or decrease the amount of ingredients used for a smaller or larger batch. Recommend using clean, sterilized canning jars for storing hot honey.