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These apple butter chicken wings with spicy honey mustard are delicious and easy to make. They are baked until crispy and basted in a homemade apple butter honey mustard sauce.
What Can You Use Apple Butter On?
Autumn. Apples. Football. These are three things that go together, am I right?
Well, maybe apples are not the first thing you think of when you think of football food, but let me tell you, these apple butter chicken wings are the perfect game-day snack!
As kids, we ate it on toast, but as adults, I prefer to use it in savory dishes.
Some of my favorite apple butter uses are baked apple butter ham and cheese sandwiches, apple butter bacon wrapped shrimp, chipotle apple butter carnitas, and of course, these wings!
Want something with a little more heat and lots of crunch? Try these Korean BBQ chicken wings!
Ingredients needed
- chicken drummettes
- apple butter
- honey
- spicy brown mustard
- chili powder
- smoked paprika
- cumin
- Kosher salt
- cilantro
- honey granules
How to make apple butter chicken wings
My apple butter chicken wings are topped with a spicy honey mustard sauce, which makes them the best combination of sweet and tangy.
I love the addition of spicy brown mustard, but if you don’t have that on hand, you can always use whole grain or even Dijon mustard.
- Add your wings to a preheated oven and bake until crispy and almost fully cooked.
- While the chicken wings are baking, make the apple butter sauce!
- Mix apple butter, honey, spicy brown mustard, chili powder, smoked paprika, cumin, and kosher salt.
- Baste the chicken wings 2-3 times while baking and garnish with chopped cilantro and honey granules.
Substitutions and Adaptations
- You could also make apple butter BBQ wings by substituting BBQ sauce for honey mustard and grilling them!
- In place of honey, you can use 1/4 cup of maple syrup.
- Use the sauce on chicken breasts and thighs, or slather them on chicken legs.
- Instead of spicy brown mustard, use Dijon mustard.
How to bake perfect wings
I love baking chicken wings because it’s so easy, and they turn out crispy and delicious! Here are a few tips! First, I like gently patting my chicken wings with paper towels so the skin isn’t going into the oven too moist. This ensures they will crisp up!
If your drummettes are extra large, bake them for 15 minutes per side. If they are smaller, start at 10 minutes per side.
To make the wings extra crispy, cook them on a wire rack over the baking sheet pan. This will ensure the fat drips down, and the skin can get extra crispy.
More chicken wing recipes
Apple Butter Chicken Wings
Ingredients
- 24 chicken drummettes
- ½ cup apple butter
- ⅓ cup honey
- 3 tablespoons spicy brown mustard
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ¼ teaspoon cumin
- ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
- Minced cilantro, for topping
- Honey granules, for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone liner.
- Add chicken wings to the prepared baking sheet, bake for 15 minutes, flip sides, and back for another 15 minutes. (If your chicken wings are on the smaller size cut down the cooking time to 10 minutes per side.)
- While the chicken is cooking prepare the sauce.
- Mix apple butter, honey, spicy brown mustard, chili powder, smoked paprika, cumin, and a pinch of kosher salt.
- Taste and add a little more salt if needed.
- Remove chicken from the oven and baste the chicken wings with the sauce and place back in the oven.
- I sauced mine on both sides about 2-3 times so they were saucy. Watch your wings while in the oven as they can burn very quickly.
- Serve them with a sprinkling of cilantro and honey granules.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These sound soooo good! Making these for the Super Bowl for sure!
These wings look incredible!
Sports party food is the BEST. And these wings? TOPS. What a combination of flavors and what a delicious treat for party guests.
Definitely the perfect snack for game day!
Oooh apple butter would make the BEST chicken wings!
I know these are all sweet and savory at the same time, whick I love.
Could you use this recipe on leg quarters? It sounds like it would be so good.