Completely elevate your snack game with an irresistable recipe for the Best Hot Wing Popcorn Recipe Ever! It’s a perfect fusion of tangy buffalo sauce, savory butter and crunchy popcorn kernels coming toegether in one addictive treat.
Best Buffalo Wing Popcorn Recipe
This recipe takes your favorite spicy wing flavor and transforms it into a craveworthy snack that’s perfect for game nights, movie marathons and all occasions where you want to impress you and your friends taste buds!
With minimal effort, ingredients and prep time, you can whip up a batch of this crowd pleasing snack and wow your guests!
Get ready to experience this flavor explosion with every crunchy bite. You’ll soon be obsessing over your new favorite snack recipe obsession!
You might have tried one of our other popcorn recipes like Homemade Popcorn or enjoyed a terrific Buffalo flavored snack like Buffalo Chicken Dip or Buffalo Chicken Tater Tot Casserole.
Here’s What You’ll Need
- Freshly popped popcorn
- Sugar
- Hot Sauce
- Butter
- Spices
Here’s How You Do It
- Create the popcorn coating by heating sugar and spices.
- Pour that over the popcorn and toss.
- Bake in the oven.
- Enjoy!
Tips and Tricks
- As soon as you are finished making and pouring the sauce over the popcorn, place the saucepan under running warm water in the sink.
- Remove the popcorn from the oven exactly on time, even if it still looks somewhat wet.
- As soon as the popcorn is out of the oven, run the pan under warm running water and wash the pan.
- This sauce makes a sticky hard candy like surface once it is dry and you do not want that on your dishes.
- Coat the pans well with non stick spray.
PRO TIP: This recipe works because of the sweet and salty nature of the sauce as well as the heat. The heat isn’t a lot, so do not worry about it being too much. Do not skimp on the sugar and salt.
Storage, Freezing and Reheating
Store uneaten popcorn in an airtight container and keep sealed well. A zip lock bag works well.
This recipe does not freeze well.
You can reheat by placing in the microwave for 10 second intervals.
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Best Hot Wing Popcorn Recipe
Ingredients
- Nonstick vegetable spray – vegan use vegan spray
- 8 cups 8 cups of plain popped popcorn
- ¾ Cups granulated sugar
- ¼ cup Franks Red Hot Original Sauce
- 3 Tbs unsalted butter cut into small pieces
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 300. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper – allow enough that you can fold the sides and ends up. Coat the parchment paper and a large kitchen bowl with cooking spray. Bowl should be large enough to hold all of the popcorn – this is where you will coat the popcorn. Set the bowl and the baking sheet aside. Have the popcorn in a separate bowl for now.
- Bring sugar and ¼ cup water to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium high heat. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Once the mixture is boiling – lift the pan and give it a swirl every 30 secs or so. Do not mix with a spoon and do not try to scrape what forms on the sides of the pan into the mix. Just swirl. In 10-12 minutes the mixture will turn a deep amber caramel color. Remove the pan from the heat now.
- Stir in the butter and hot sauce. This will cause a lot of sizzling noise and the mix will bubble furiously. Return to the stove top and return to a boil for another 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and working quickly add the salt, baking soda and cayenne and stir those in. When you add the baking soda a strange reaction will happen and the mix will change to an orange color – don’t worry – it is supposed to do that – just keep working.
- Into the prepared bowl, add some popcorn and a little sauce, then more popcorn and more sauce. Make about 4 layers. Then with a spatula or wooden spoon gently mix the popcorn so that it all become coated with the sauce. Pour the popcorn into your prepared baking dish and continues to stir to coat the popcorn. (Immediately put your sauce pan and your bowl in the sink and run warm water into them).
- Spread the popcorn out onto the baking sheet and place into the oven. Bake for 10 minutes, remove the tray and mix the popcorn. Place back in the oven and bake for another 5-10 minutes. Allow to cool slightly before serving.
Notes
- As soon as you are finished making and pouring the sauce over the popcorn, place the saucepan under running warm water in the sink.
- Remove the popcorn from the oven exactly on time, even if it still looks somewhat wet.
- As soon as the popcorn is out of the oven, run the pan under warm running water and wash the pan.
- This sauce makes a sticky hard candy like surface once it is dry and you do not want that on your dishes.
- Coat the pans well with non stick spray.
Nutrition
This post originally appeared on the pages of Loaves and Dishes on February 24, 2015 and has been completely updated to be the most helpful article available on this subject! That includes the recipe card and the instructions.
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