# Sweet Sting

> Sweet Sting is New Zealand's original hot honey — chilli-infused, honey-based sauces made in Auckland, New Zealand. The original Hot Honey is three ingredients: New Zealand honey, fresh red chillies and apple cider vinegar, with no preservatives or stabilisers.

Key facts:

- Made in Auckland, New Zealand. Ships New Zealand-wide.
- Sold online at https://www.sweetsting.co.nz and in store at 150+ stockists across New Zealand.
- Every jar carries a five-step heat scale: Is that it?, Ok… I felt that, The perfect Sweet Sting, Tonsil toaster, Face melter.
- Any 3 or more bottles are 15% off. Shipping is free on orders over $39.00 to urban New Zealand addresses.
- Honey should not be given to infants under 12 months.
- Contact: hello@sweetsting.co.nz. Trade: trade@sweetsting.co.nz.

## Products

- [Smashed Tomato](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/product-page/smashed-tomato-no-refined-sugar): 265g, $11.50 NZD. Heat: Is that it? (tier 1 of 5). Rich umami, sweet and savoury, with just enough warmth to be intriguing. The sauce for people who don't do spice. Sweetens with Sweet Sting Hot Honey.
- [Space Jam](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/product-page/space-jam): 270g, $11.50 NZD. Heat: Ok… I felt that (tier 2 of 5). A good old-fashioned chilli jam. Jammy up front with a long, spicy finish. Sweetens with Sweet Sting Hot Honey.
- [Down & Dirty Mustard](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/product-page/down-dirty-mustard): 270g, $11.50 NZD. Heat: Ok… I felt that (tier 2 of 5). Hot Honey met mustard and things got down and dirty. Tangy, sharp, spicy. Sweetens with Sweet Sting Hot Honey.
- [Smoky Joe](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/product-page/smoky-joe): 270g, $11.50 NZD. Heat: The perfect Sweet Sting (tier 3 of 5). Low, slow and a little bit charred. Built for brisket, pulled pork and anything off the grill. Sweetens with Sweet Sting Hot Honey.
- [Sweet Sting Hot Honey](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/product-page/sweet-sting-hot-honey): 330g, $11.95 NZD. Heat: The perfect Sweet Sting (tier 3 of 5). The sauce that started our journey, and still the one we'd take to a desert island. Three ingredients — honey, chilli, apple cider vinegar. No preservatives, no stabilisers.
- [Sweet Sting Superhot](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/product-page/super-hot-honey): 330g, $11.95 NZD. Heat: Face melter (tier 5 of 5). We're not here to mess around and neither is this fiery creation. Three ingredients — honey, chilli, apple cider vinegar. No preservatives, no stabilisers.

## Recipes

48 recipes using Sweet Sting, all at https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/blog.

### Seafood

- [Bluff Oysters with Hot Honey Mignonette](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/bluff-oysters-hot-honey-mignonette): 10 min. Three months a year, and worth waiting for. A mignonette with hot honey in it cuts the brine without burying the oyster.
- [Scallops with Brown Butter & Hot Honey](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/scallops-brown-butter-hot-honey): 15 min. Ninety seconds a side and a pan sauce made from what's already in the pan. The most expensive thing you can cook in under ten minutes.
- [Hot Honey Prawn Skewers](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-prawn-skewers): 20 min. Barbecue prawns that don't dry out, because the glaze goes on at the end rather than the start. Ten minutes, start to plate.
- [Hot Honey Glazed Salmon](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-glazed-salmon): 20 min. Ten minutes in a hot pan, glazed at the end so the honey caramelises without burning. The weeknight dinner that looks like a Saturday.

### Cheese

- [Baked Camembert with Hot Honey](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/baked-camembert-with-crackers): 25 min. Twenty-five minutes, four ingredients, and the single most reliable way to convert someone who thinks they don't like chilli.
- [Roasted Fig, Prosciutto & Blue Cheese Tartines](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/sweet-sting-roasted-fig-prosciutto-and-blue-cheese-tartines): 20 min. Salt, funk, sweetness and heat on one piece of toast. Looks like it took an hour; takes twenty minutes.
- [Hot Honey Haloumi Tacos](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-haloumi-tacos): 25 min. Squeaky, salty haloumi hit with hot honey the second it leaves the pan, so it glazes rather than slides off.
- [Sweet Stingy Naan Bread Pizza](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/sweet-stingy-naan-bread-pizza): 15 min. Fifteen-minute pizza on a naan base. The hot honey goes on after the oven, never before — that's the whole trick.
- [Cheesy Sweet Heat Quesadillas](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/cheesy-quesadillas): 12 min. Crisp on the outside, molten in the middle, with hot honey through the cheese rather than on the side.
- [Grilled Halloumi with Hot Honey & Balsamic Berries](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/halloumi-hot-honey-balsamic-berries): 12 min. Twelve minutes and it looks like you tried much harder than you did. Salty, squeaky, sweet, sharp and hot in the same mouthful.

### Cocktails

- [Spicy Cucumber & Lime Gin Fizz](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/cucumber-lime-gin-fizz): 5 min. A five-minute gin fizz built on muddled cucumber, lime and loosened hot honey, long over ice with soda. Cold, sharp and faintly dangerous.
- [Hot Honey Margarita](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-margarita): 5 min. The spicy marg, done properly. Hot honey replaces the agave, so the heat is in the drink rather than smeared round the rim.
- [Sweet Sting Bramble](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/sweet-sting-bramble): 5 min. Dark, tart and a bit menacing. Blackberry and chilli turn out to be old friends nobody thought to introduce.
- [Hot Honey Old Fashioned](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-old-fashioned): 5 min. An old fashioned built on hot honey rather than syrup. Three ingredients, five minutes of stirring, and a slow warmth underneath the whisky.
- [Hot Honey Espresso Martini](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-espresso-martini): 5 min. The heat arrives after the coffee does, which is far more interesting than it sounds. Best late, and only one.

### Vegetables

- [Roast Kūmara with Feta & Hot Honey](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/roast-kumara-feta-hot-honey): 40 min. Kūmara caramelises harder than any other roast vegetable, and hot honey meets it exactly where it lands. The side dish people ask about.
- [Hot Honey Cauliflower Wings](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-cauliflower-wings): 35 min. Battered, baked and tossed in the same glaze as the chicken version. The one vegetarian dish that gets eaten by everyone at the table.
- [Kūmara & Potato Salad, Hot Honey Mustard](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/kumara-potato-salad-hot-honey-mustard): 30 min. The barbecue side that gets finished first: kūmara and waxy potatoes dressed warm in hot honey and wholegrain mustard. Thirty minutes, serves six.
- [Tofu & Cashew Hot Honey Stir Fry](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/tofu-cashew-hot-honey-stir-fry): 35 min. Thirty-five minutes, one wok. Getting the tofu properly dry is 90% of whether this works.

### Chicken

- [Hot Honey Chicken Schnitzel Sandwich](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-chicken-schnitzel-sandwich): 30 min. Crunchy schnitzel, quick pickled onion and a hard drizzle of hot honey that soaks halfway into the crumb. The one people make twice in a week.
- [Sticky Asian-Style Chicken Nibbles](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/sticky-asian-style-chicken-nibbles): 45 min. Baked, not fried, then tossed through a hot honey and soy glaze until they're properly lacquered. The tray disappears first, every time.
- [Hot Honey Chicken Wings](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-chicken-wings): 45 min. The benchmark. Crisp skin, no deep fryer, and a glaze that sets rather than pools at the bottom of the bowl.
- [Hot Honey Ramen](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-ramen): 25 min. A spoonful stirred through at the end rounds out a sharp broth and gives it a slow, sweet burn. Works with any ramen you already make.
- [Coconut Chicken Laksa](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/coconut-chicken-laksa-hot-honey): 45 min. One pot, 45 minutes: chicken thighs simmered in coconut milk and laksa paste, with hot honey stirred through at the end to round the broth out.
- [Honey Soy Chicken Drumsticks](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/honey-soy-chicken-drumsticks): 50 min. Honey soy drumsticks baked in under an hour, glazed only in the last twelve minutes so they come out sticky rather than burnt. Cheap, easy, serves four.
- [Hot Honey Chicken Thigh Traybake](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-chicken-thigh-traybake): 55 min. One tray, under an hour: chicken thighs, baby potatoes and red onion, with the hot honey going on in the last ten minutes so nothing catches. Serves four.
- [Hot Honey Roast Chicken](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-roast-chicken): 1 hr 45. A whole roast chicken glazed with hot honey in the last fifteen minutes, so the skin goes dark and sticky without catching. Under two hours, serves four.

### Pork

- [Sweet Sting Christmas Ham Glaze](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/christmas-ham-sweet-sting-honey-mustard): 90 min. The glaze that ruins every other ham. Hot honey and mustard lacquered on in three coats, so it goes glassy and dark at the edges without catching.
- [Hot Honey Pulled Pork Sliders](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/pulled-pork-sliders): 6 hr. Six hours of doing nothing, then ten minutes of assembly. The hot honey goes through the pork after shredding, not before.
- [Sausage & Apple Traybake](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/sausage-apple-traybake-hot-honey): 45 min. One tray, forty-five minutes, and the glaze goes on with fifteen to go so nothing burns. A genuinely good weeknight dinner.
- [Caribbean Hot Honey Pork Ribs](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/caribbean-hot-honey-pork-ribs): 2 hr 30. Allspice-rubbed pork ribs, two hours in foil, then a rum and hot honey glaze blasted on at the end. Two and a half hours, almost all of it unattended.
- [Wholegrain Mustard Pork Chops](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/mustard-pork-chops-hot-honey): 15 min. Fifteen minutes, one pan, and the pan sauce made from what is already in it. A weeknight chop that eats like a Saturday.
- [Hot Honey Pork Belly](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-pork-belly): 3 hr. Slow-roast pork belly with proper crackling, glazed with hot honey in the last fifteen minutes so it lacquers instead of burning. Three hours, serves four.

### Beef & lamb

- [Sticky Hot Honey Beef Short Ribs](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/sticky-hot-honey-beef-short-ribs): 4 hr 30. Beef short ribs braised four hours until they slide off the bone, then glazed with hot honey and soy for the last ten. Serves four, mostly unattended.
- [Hot Honey Glazed Lamb Chops](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-glazed-lamb-chops): 20 min. Lamb chops seared four minutes a side, then finished with a hot honey, rosemary and lemon pan glaze made off the heat. Twenty minutes, serves two.
- [Hot Honey Meatballs](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-meatballs): 40 min. Beef and pork meatballs baked for eighteen minutes, then rolled through a hot honey and soy glaze. Forty minutes, makes twenty-four, freezes raw.
- [Steak with Hot Honey Butter](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/steak-with-hot-honey-butter): 15 min. Sirloin seared hard and rested under a coin of hot honey butter that melts over it. Fifteen minutes, serves two, and the butter keeps a fortnight.

### Pasta & tomato

- [Simple Sweet Sting Gnocchi](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/simple-sweet-sting-gnocchi): 15 min. Pan-fried gnocchi with brown butter and hot honey. Four ingredients, one pan, on the table in fifteen minutes.
- [Spinach & Ricotta Pasta Bake](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/spinach-ricotta-pasta-bake): 70 min. A 70-minute Sunday bake: rigatoni layered with spinach ricotta under a hot honey tomato sauce. The ricotta stays mild, the sauce underneath has an edge.
- [Lamb Meatballs in Hot Honey Tomato](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/lamb-meatballs-tomato-spaghetti): 70 min. Pine nuts and raisins in the meatball, hot honey in the sauce. Sweet, sharp and savoury all at once, which is very much the point.

### Sauces

- [Sublime Sweet Sting Thai Peanut Sauce](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/super-simple-thai-peanut-sauce): 5 min. A five-minute peanut sauce that keeps a week and improves everything it touches — satay, noodles, roast vegetables, cold chicken.
- [The Slow Tomato Sauce](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/slow-tomato-pasta-sauce): 2 hr. Two hours of barely any work for 1.5 litres of deep tomato sauce, finished off the heat with hot honey so the sharpness goes. Freezes for three months.
- [Sesame Soy Hot Honey Dressing](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/sesame-soy-hot-honey-dressing): 5 min. Five minutes and one jar: sesame oil, soy, rice vinegar and hot honey whisked into a dressing that keeps a fortnight and fixes anything green.
- [Hot Honey Red Onion Pickle](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-red-onion-pickle): 15 min. Fifteen minutes of work for a jar of sharp, faintly hot pickled red onion that makes every sandwich better for a month. Edible within the hour.

### Sweet things

- [Hot Honey Bliss Balls](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/bliss-balls): 15 min. No-bake oat, date and almond balls with cocoa and hot honey. Fifteen minutes, makes sixteen, and a warmth at the back that keeps them interesting.
- [Hot Honey over Vanilla Ice Cream](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/hot-honey-vanilla-ice-cream): 5 min. Thirty seconds of work, and the shortest argument anyone has ever needed for the whole product. Cold, sweet, salty, and then a heat that turns up after you have swallowed.
- [Honey-Roasted Stone Fruit with Mascarpone](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/honey-roasted-stone-fruit-mascarpone): 35 min. Peaches or apricots roasted until they slump, in a syrup made from nothing but their own juices and hot honey. Twenty-five minutes in the oven, and the mascarpone does the rest.
- [Feijoa Crumble with Hot Honey](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/post/feijoa-crumble-hot-honey): 55 min. Feijoa season runs about six weeks from late March, and this is the best thing to do with a bucket of them. The hot honey goes into the topping as well as the fruit, so the crumb bakes into craggy, almost-granola clumps.

## Pages

- [Shop](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/shop): the full range and pack builder
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- [Stockists](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/our-stockists): where to buy in store, by region
- [Our story](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/our-story)
- [Shipping & returns](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/shipping-returns)
- [Customer care](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/customer-care)
- [Foodservice](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/foodservice) and [corporate gifting](https://www.sweetsting.co.nz/corporate-gifting)