This recipe is delicious and well worth the time. I would say to speed up the process, if you know you want to make these in the morning. Consider making the dough the night before. You can even pre-roll them into balls on the lined parchment sheet, cover with cling wrap, and keep them in the refrigerator overnight. Set dough out to come up to room temperature while you are heating your oil and they are all set for frying the next day!
The oven fried chicken and hot honey takes about 25 minutes to prep and bake. You can also make the chicken the day before as I did and hold off on the hot honey part until you are ready to make the beignets. While you are waiting for your dough to fry, preheat the oven to 400 degree. Toss the chicken bites into the hot honey to coat and pop them into oven for 10 minutes. I’d say once you are ready to coat the beignets into the powder sugar is when you should out the chicken into the oven.
Garnish with more hot honey, green onions, and fresh lemon zest! YUM!