Easter Ham Rub Recipe

Until thickened and delicious. Coat a ham in this glaze, then bake the ham to golden brown perfection and watch the rave reviews come in.

When the holidays roll around, I always make family favorite side dishes including crockpot mashed potatoes, candied yams, and this brown sugar glaze served over a spiral cut ham, for an epic Easter or Christmas dinner.

A homemade ham glaze turns an ordinary store bought ham into a flavorful and festive dinner option for your guests. This recipe has just a handful of ingredients and is ready in 10 minutes. Skip the store bought glaze packets and make your own – you’ll be happy you did! This glaze pairs well with so many different ham recipes like Easter ham, baked ham and spiral ham.

Spiral Ham With Brown Sugar Glaze

This ham is one of my favorite Christmas recipes along with peanut brittle, molasses cookies and sweet potato casserole. If you have any ham leftovers check out some easy leftover ham recipes like ham bone soup, scalloped potatoes and ham or ham salad!

To make a sweet and thick ham glaze you will need butter, brown sugar, pineapple juice, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg and ground cloves.

To make this ham glaze recipe, place butter, brown sugar, pineapple juice, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in a pan or saucepan. Bring the pan to a simmer, stirring occasionally. Boil the glaze for 5-7 minutes or until it has started to thicken and become syrupy. Cool the glaze slightly, then brush or pour it over a ham in a roasting pan. Bake the ham covered in foil. When the ham is just about done, uncover it and pour the rest of the glaze on the ham. Place the ham back in the oven a few minutes until the glaze caramelizes. Remove the ham from the oven, slice it and enjoy!

Brown Sugar Ham (baked Ham Glaze)

You do not have to glaze a ham, but I highly recommend it. A glaze adds a lot of flavor and helps to keep a ham from drying out as it bakes. It also gives your ham that glossy sheen which makes it look so attractive. An alternative to a glaze would be a dry rub, such as my homemade BBQ rub.

I like to pour half of the glaze over the ham, then cover the ham and bake it until it’s warmed through. I then uncover the ham, add the rest of the brown sugar mixture, and finish baking the ham at a higher temperature so that the ham gets browned and caramelized from the glaze.

The simplest way to cook a ham is to bake it in the oven. The ham should bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes per pound. Be sure to cover your ham so that it doesn’t dry out. Ham is ready to serve when a thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the meat registers 145 degrees F.

Best Glazed Easter Ham Recipe

Glazing a ham adds flavor and sweetness to the ham. If you caramelize the glaze on the ham it gives it a texture and shiny look that is always appealing. It elevates the meat to a holiday favorite that is perfect to serve on Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving or whenever.

This is a basic recipe to get you started, there are so many different ingredients you can add to customize it to your tastes.

I serve this recipe for every holiday and it always gets rave reviews! The pineapple and brown sugar pair beautifully with the flavor of a baked ham, and people always ask for seconds.

World's Best Brown Sugar Ham (+ Ham Glaze Recipe)

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This ham glaze is a combination of butter, brown sugar, pineapple juice and spices, all simmered together until thickened. Coat a ham in this glaze, then bake the ham to golden brown perfection and watch the rave reviews come in.

Calories: 143 kcal | Carbohydrates: 19 g | Protein: 1 g | Fat: 8 g | Saturated Fat: 5 g | Cholesterol: 20 mg | Sodium: 73 mg | Potassium: 37 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 19 g | Vitamin A: 236 IU | Vitamin C: 1 mg | Calcium: 19 mg | Iron: 1 mgOkay, now that I've both confused and depressed everyone: Here's the recipe for my yummy sweet-glazed ham—the same ham recipe I'll be making for Easter brunch. It's totally easy, exceedingly delicious, and results in a purty and glossy Easter ham that'll make your guests say Oooooooh! with wide, expectant eyes and, hopefully, hearty appetites because this ham could feed an army (and hopefully result in leftover ham). 

Easter Ham With Apricot Habanero Glaze

Let's get something straight: Is glazing a ham necessary? No. Is it worth it? Yes! Ham is just regular 'ol ham until you top it with a tangy, sweet, sticky, addictive glaze. For this one, all you have to do is pop open a can of Dr Pepper and mix it with mustard, brown sugar, and apple cider vinegar. Since the ham comes from the grocery store pre-cooked, this is an easy extra step that results in major flavor. Plus, it gives it that gorgeous glossy, lacquered look that just screams holiday ham! 

Look for a fully-cooked, bone-in ham that isn't spiral cut—it stays juicier in the oven! Shank-end hams are the big, beautiful ones you're used to seeing for the holidays and those work great here. Just remember to do the math on how much ham per person is needed before you put in your order with the butcher!

You do is the real question. Since this is a bone-in ham, save the bone and make ham stock for future soups and stews! With leftover ham, make something breakfast-y like quiche, toss it into your favorite pasta dish or on top of a pizza, or just make a really good ham sandwich.

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Use a really sharp knife to score a diamond pattern all over the surface of the ham: First cut lines in one direction…

And keep going until the whole surface is dotted. I do this for looks more than flavor: I just think it looks lovely and traditional when it’s all done baking.

Cover the ham with foil, then put it into the oven to warm it up. I do 325 for at least 2 to 2 1/2 hours, but I’d say just look at the instructions on the package and follow those. Some hams say to go 3 to 4 hours, some at a lower temperature. The whole goal here is just to heat the ham slowly…and it takes awhile to do that.

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You can use Coke. Heck, you could probably even use root beer. But please, for the love of all things good and caramelized, do not use diet pop.

After the ham has cooked for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, brush the surface with some of the glaze. Then pop it back into the oven, uncovered, for another 20 minutes or so.

Then pull it out and brush on more glaze! Keep doing this until the ham is fully heated and the glaze is really gorgeous and glossy.

Easter Ham Recipe

Note: On my Food Network episode last weekend, I only glazed it once because I had been at church and didn’t want to add too much more time before we ate. It was still totally delicious, but glazing the ham 2 or 3 (or 4) times really results in more of a masterpiece in terms of gorgeous surface.

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More often than not, most times we as a people try baking a ham for Christmas, they end up dried out on the inside without any flavour and a cause for major anxiety before guests arrive. This would have to be the WORST kind of ham.

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Glaze Recipes To Make Your Best Ever Easter Ham

The best glaze for a baked ham contain either honey, brown sugar or maple syrup. The saltiness from the ham and the sweetness for the glaze complement each other so well, that either of those ingredients make for a pretty special glaze.

The glaze I went for is a combination of butter, brown sugar, honey, Dijon mustard (adding a nice tang to the ham) and crushed garlic cloves.

From here you can add in spices like the traditional ground cinnamon and ground cloves, or leave them out. Most recipes call for decorating the ham with whole cloves

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