Crispy Baked Buffalo Wings

This may be the easiest and most delicious buffalo wing recipe ever! Serve these with carrot and celery sticks and blue cheese dip.

📝 Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt (or 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt)
• 3 pounds chicken wings (drumettes and flats separated (look for 'party wings' at the grocery store))
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cloves garlic (minced)
• 1/2 cup hot sauce (such as Cholula Original or Frank's Red Hot)
• 1/2 cup blue cheese (crumbled)
• 1 clove garlic (minced)
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon white vinegar
• salt and freshly ground black pepper (to taste)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1--- To make the wings: ---
2. 2Adjust oven racks so that one rack is in the upper-middle and one is in the lower-middle.
3. 3Preheat oven to 250 °F (121 °C).
4. 4Set an oven-safe wire rack into a baking sheet lined with foil or parchment paper. Spray wire rack with non-stick spray or brush with oil.
5. 5In a large bowl, whisk together cornstarch and kosher salt.
6. 6Pat chicken drumettes and flats dry with paper towels. Add to bowl with cornstarch mixture and toss to coat evenly. Arrange in a single layer on rack in baking sheet. Bake on lower-middle rack for 30 minutes.
7. 7Increase oven temperature to 425 °F (218 °C) and move baking sheet to upper middle rack. Bake for 40-50 minutes more until golden brown, rotating the sheet half way through.
8. 8Meanwhile prepare buffalo sauce. Heat butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. When butter begins to melt, add minced garlic and stir. Cook and stir until butter is fully melted and garlic is fragrant; remove from heat. Whisk in hot sauce until smooth.
9. 9When wings are golden brown and crispy, remove them from oven and allow to rest on rack for 5 minutes. Then place wings in a large bowl and pour warm buffalo sauce over; gently stir to coat evenly. Transfer coated wings to platter and serve with blue cheese dip (recipe below).
10. 10--- Easy Blue Cheese Dip ---
11. 11Add blue cheese, garlic and sour cream to a medium bowl. Using the back of a fork, smash blue cheese crumbles into sour cream until flavors have melded. Stir in vinegar. Add salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Serve.