Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings

Bring on Football Season!

Wings are great, and baking them in the oven rather than frying them made me love them even more for being a little bit of a healthier version of a football season favorite (let's go Ravens!) The outside was a little crispy and the inside was perfectly cooked in much less time than I expected!

Ingredients:

3/4 cup flour

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

1/2 tsp chili powder

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 lb chicken wings

1/4 cup melted butter

1/3 cup Frank's Red Hot hot sauce

Directions:

In a ziplock bag, put in the flour, cayenne, chili powder, garlic, and salt. Shake to mix. Add the chicken wings to the bag and shake around until all wings are coated with the mixture. Let the wings sit in the refrigerator for at least one hour.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray with non-stick spray.

Mix together melted butter and hot sauce. Dip each wing in the mixture and place on the baking sheet.

Now, about the actual cook time: all of the recipes I looked at said the wings would take 40 minutes to an hour to bake. Chris's oven typically cooks faster than I'm used to but this one really surprised me - the wings were totally done in about 20 minutes! So, I guess it's just something you have to watch and make your best judgement on in your own oven. I flipped the wings over after after 15 minutes and then let them cook for an additional 5 on the other side. But after that we could tell they were done so went ahead and took them out!