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57 Honey-Filled Recipes You'll Love

From pastries to vegetable glazes, here are all of the best ways to cook with our favorite sweetener.

By The Epicurious Editors

February 14, 2018

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Pecan-Orange Baklava Pie
Bourbon-honey syrup and fragrant orange zest add rich flavor to this baklava-pie hybrid.
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Breakfast Yogurt Pops with Fruit and Granola
These healthy frozen yogurt treats are sweetened with just a touch of honey. Adults and kids alike will love waking up to these fruit-studded, high-protein, low-sugar yogurt pops.
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Barley Porridge with Honeyed Plums
The honeyed plums have a sweet but brightly acidic flavor, which suits them well as a topping for this savory porridge.
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Honey Brioche
Make it as a whole loaf or turn it into rolls; any way you bake it, it’s a winner, and you can use this method to create all sorts of variations.
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Hot Honey Butter
For this spicy-sweet condiment that's good on almost anything, use a hot sauce that isn’t just heat and vinegar but has a personality of its own. We like Frank’s.
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Cherry Compote with Honey Yogurt
The honey adds a floral sweetness to the yogurt, while the cherries add bright, acidic, fruit flavor for a breakfast that's good enough to be dessert.
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Honey-Vanilla Linzer Cookies
These beautiful cookies have a more complex sweetness thanks to added honey, and not just pure sugar.
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Charred Sweet Potatoes With Honey and Olive Oil
Charring the extra-starchy Japanese potatoes adds depth of flavor and a bit of pleasant bitterness. Honey adds sweet, fruity flavor that compliments a good, grassy olive oil and plenty of flaky salt.
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Beer's Knees
Be sure to completely dissolve the honey before adding the ice since it will clump and go nowhere once it's cold.
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High Honey-Sriracha Popcorn
No cannabis? No problem—skip it and you’ll still have a killer spicy-sweet popcorn.
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Twice-Roasted Sweet Potatoes With Hot Honey
This recipe embraces the incredible natural sweetness of sweet potatoes but gives it a spicy edge.
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Caramelized-Honey Nut and Seed Tart
Honey and nuts are a classic combination, and they make for a rich, delicious tart that you can sort of tell yourself is like eating a granola bar.
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Granola Bars with Dried Fruit and Seeds
A combination of nut butter, dried fruit, honey, and lots of seeds makes these chewy homemade granola bars downright irresistible.
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Instant Pot Sticky Hoisin Baby Back Ribs
Honey lends a pleasant sweetness to these tender ribs. Cooking ribs under pressure means they get incredibly tender without falling apart or shredding—in a fraction of the time as braising and with no attention needed.
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