Honey Mustard Baked Chicken

Yesterday when I was getting ready to make dinner I decided I wanted to make a different kind of sauce for my chicken, one that had never made before and that my hubby would like.
The recipe I found had curry in it but I had no curry at home and it was extremely cold to go out to the store plus I'm a little sick with a cold. Ok, so the point is I decided to go without the curry and add my own touch in it.

Here is what the original recipe says you need:

1 (3 pound) whole chicken, cut into pieces

 1/2 cup butter, melted

 1/2 cup honey

 1/4 cup prepared mustard

 1 teaspoon salt

 1 teaspoon curry powder

And this is What I used:

4 Chicken drumsticks 

3 tbsp butter

1/2 c honey

1/4 c mustard

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp cayenne pepper Or more if you want 

dried fruits- cherry and cranberries

seasoned salt ( This is when I thought I had messed up my sauce!!! Can you believe that when I was pouring a "little" bit of this in my sauce the lid completely came off and half of the salt came down on top of my sauce!!! But thanks to God I was able to spoon almost all of it out and just kept a little bit more of what I wanted in the sauce. I was sure it wasn't going to be salty because the chicken itself didn't have any other seasonings in it.) Saved by the bell!!! LOL :)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Place chicken pieces in a shallow baking pan, skin side up. Combine the melted butter or margarine, honey, mustard, salt and curry powder and pour the mixture over the chicken. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 1/4 hours (75 minutes), basting every 15 minutes with pan drippings, until the chicken is nicely browned and tender and the juices run clear. In the last 30 minutes I added the dried fruits and turned the heat a little higher so my chicken would brown a little faster. 

I served it with sweet potatoes which I cooked in the same baking pot as the chicken so they would soak the honey mustard flavor. Ahhhh!! So good.

Yes, I know it looks really good. Now let me show you a close-up of the chicken so you can start liking your fingers.

This sauce was so good, and even with what happened with the salt it was perfect in flavor. My husband ate every piece of it and licked his fingers, that's how good it was. The sweet potatoes were to die for with all the flavor they soaked up. 

I have a little confession to make!!!

I got to say that I had to do it!!! Do what? I had to!!! I had to bake a fresh blueberries cake and have it after this delicious meal. 

There are two pieces missing in that cake but the biggest was my hubby's, who by the way had another piece before he brushed his teeth to go to bed. 

This was a piece of heaven (my piece was smaller then that) the tartness of the lemon juice and blueberries in the cake with the sweetness was the perfect combination. 

But like always, I sent some to work with my hubby, his metabolism is faster than mine is and I know he is going to need something make his day a little sweeter. 

Have a wonderful day and keep yourself warm, I know I am!!!