My kids love anything with buffalo sauce. I love anything that is simple and heightens the flavor of something we love to eat. Plus, bonus points if it is dippable! Sweet and spicy buffalo sauce ticks all those boxes for me!

This tasty sauce is not only mildly spicy and tangy, but it is sweet and buttery. It is the perfect sauce for a buffalo chicken sandwich or to dip your chicken tenders into. This sweet and spicy buffalo sauce is the perfect addition to chicken and waffles, too!

We love making buffalo sauce homemade because you have more control over the heat (by using your favorite hot sauce), your ingredients, and the flavors of the buffalo sauce. We like ours buttery and slightly sweet, making it a mixture of well balanced flavors. This one is one of our family favorites!

sweet and spicy buffalo sauce in a pot on a cutting board

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The recipe is super simple to pull together and doesn’t require prep work. It heats up in one pot (y’all know how much I hate dishes) and stores well in your fridge for your weekly meal prep.

We love pairing ours with our Easy Homemade Buttermilk Ranch Dressing on a chicken sandwich. The flavors together balance each other out so well!

It is spicy, tangy, sweet, and buttery, you and your family are sure to love this one!

Why you’ll love this Sweet and Spicy Buffalo Sauce

Tasty – Let this sit for at least a few hours in your fridge to let all of those ingredients come together and wow is it delicious!

Versatile – Can be used in a sandwich wrap or you can use this on a salad. It makes an incredible dip, too!

Ingredients you mostly have on hand – Not everyone keeps buttermilk on hand, but most ingredients really can be found in your fridge and pantry!

Great for weekly meal prep – This salad dressing keeps for a week so it really does make a great addition to your weekly prep.

Supplies needed to make Sweet and Spicy Buffalo Sauce

Measuring spoons
Measuring cups
Metal Whisk
A container or jar for storing your buffalo sauce

Ingredients

Hot Sauce – We love Frank’s Red Hot Original hot sauce for this recipe. It isn’t unbearably hot and my kiddos really love it on everything.

Butter – We use either salted or unsalted.

Worcestershire Sauce – Something I always have on hand for added flavor in an unsuspecting way! It really is one of my favorite ingredients to use in recipes.

Brown Sugar – Where your sweetness comes in. Brown sugar also thickens up the buffalo sauce just a little.

The full recipe, along with the ingredients, can be found below.

How to make Sweet and Spicy Buffalo Sauce

all of the ingredients on a white countertop on a cooling rack

a pot with butter inside of it and hot sauce being poured over it

First, measure your hot sauce and pour it directly in the pot.

Next, add your butter, Worcestershire sauce, and sugar into the pot.

Then, turn your stove on medium low and allow the sauce mixture to begin heating up. Stir the ingredients together until it forms a sauce. Your butter will be melted and so will your sugar!

Finally, remove from the heat and allow it to cool slightly before using the buffalo sauce.

the buffalo sauce being poured over chicken thighs

Enjoy this sweet and spicy buffalo sauce on your fries, on a chicken burger, on chicken wings or chicken thighs. However your enjoy using buffalo sauce, this one is a perfect one to use!

Tips

You can use light brown sugar or dark brown sugar. The choice is completely yours! I love light brown sugar for this recipe.
A little goes a long way!
You can use your favorite hot sauce in this recipe. Our favorite is Frank’s Red Hot!

FAQs

The key ingredients are hot sauce, butter, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce.

Store your sweet and spicy buffalo sauce in an air tight container (preferably a jar) for up to a week, possibly longer, in the refrigerator.

Recipe

hot sauce being poured over butter in a pot

Sweet and Spicy Buffalo Sauce

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Total Time 15

Course Sauces

Cuisine American

Servings 12 +

Ingredients

1 cup Hot Sauce (we like Frank's hot sauce)
½ cup Butter
2 tbsp Light Brown Sugar
1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce

Instructions

Place all of your ingredients in a pot.
Over medium to low heat, using a whisk, gently combine all ingredients as your pot begins to heat up.
Once all of your ingredients have been incorporated, remove from the heat.
Enjoy!