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This traditional Baked Ham recipe with a pineapple brown sugar glaze is so flavorful, delicious, and perfect for Easter, Christmas, or any special occasion!
The Holiday-worthy Baked Ham we come back to year after year.
The Holiday-worthy Baked Ham we come back to year after year.This is the best Baked Ham recipe with a sweet pineapple glaze that perfectly complements the savory, smoky flavor of the ham. It tastes like something you'd get at a fancy holiday dinner, but it’s incredibly simple to make. Since the ham is already pre-cooked, all we’re really doing is reheating it and adding the glaze, which makes it practically foolproof. One of my favorite parts is the leftovers! I always freeze the ham bone for Ham Bone Soup, and use leftover slices in Ham and Cheese Sliders, Ham Fried Rice, Charro Beans, or even Chicken Cordon Bleu.
What Ham to Buy: My favorite ham is a pre-cooked, bone-in, spiral sliced ham. The bone-in hams are more flavorful and it's nice that it's already sliced. I usually buy the Kirkland hams from Costco – they are delicious and a great price!
If you want more special occasion meals, try Rack of Lamb, Baked Parmesan Crusted Chicken, Seared Scallops, or Baked Salmon!
How to make Baked Ham:
Make the Glaze: Combine all glaze ingredients in a saucepan and stir until smooth. Simmer on low heat until thickened to a syrup-like consistency.
Bake and Serve: Let the ham sit at room temperature for 1–2 hours. Place it in a foil-lined roasting pan, brush with a little glaze, cover tightly with foil, and bake at 300°F for 1½ to 2 hours. Uncover, brush with remaining glaze, increase oven to 400°F, and bake for 15 more minutes. Tent with foil and rest 15 minutes before serving. Serve with Funeral Potatoes or Mashed Potatoes, a wedge salad, and Homemade Rolls!
Baked Ham
Equipment
Ingredients
- 8-10 pounds bone-in fully-cooked, spiral-cut ham
- 20 ounce can pineapple tidbits, , or crushed pineapple
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
Instructions
- Remove ham from refrigerator 1-2 hours before baking, to allow it to come to room temperature.8-10 pounds bone-in fully-cooked, spiral-cut ham
- Make Glaze: Meanwhile, make the glaze. In a saucepan combine pineapple tidbits, brown sugar, cinnamon, and cloves. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 20-30 minutes or until mixture has thickened.20 ounce can pineapple tidbits, ¾ cup light brown sugar, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Remove ham from packaging and throw away the glaze packet and the plastic disk that covers the bone.
- Glaze ham: Place the ham flat/cut side down, in a deep baking dish or roasting pan. I like to line my pan with aluminum foil to make for easier clean-up. Brush just a few spoonfuls of the glaze onto the ham, all over the outside. Reserve the remaining glaze for later. Cover the ham tightly with a tent of aluminum foil. This will help keep the ham from drying out.
- Bake at 300 degrees F for 1 ½ to 2 hours, or until internal temperature reaches 110 degrees. Note, the ham is already cooked, so we’re just just trying to reheat it.
- Remove the ham from the oven and remove foil tent (set it aside for later). Increase the oven temperature to 400 degrees. Brush the remaining glaze all over the ham. Return to the oven and continue to bake for another 15 minutes.
- Rest: Remove from oven, tent with foil and allow to rest for 15 minutes before serving.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I originally shared this recipe March 2018. Updated August 2019 and December 2021, November 2023 and October 2025.
Do you drain the pineapple to make glaze..I didn’t and mine seemed runny
JUST the pineapple or the juice from the can as well??
Everything in the can 🙂
My sauce didn’t thicken much either but overall a great tasting sauce
Wonderful glaze, easy to make. We liked the cinnamon with the pineapple.
I only have pineapple rings… Do you think I should chop them up or puree them? Thanks!
Either would work!
Added a little Kentucky Bourbon and some half & half to your glaze recipe, on our ham for Easter. Outstanding!!
Although my glaze never thickened, this was the best “sweet” Ham I’ve ever made. I used a fresh pineapple so maybe that was the problem. The ham was very moist and with just the right amount of sweetness!
Making it tonight, but using the regular bone in not spiral, used spiral only twice and found 1st day great but leftovers dry. Also doing roasted potatoes, small red ones. Doing your glaze . Yummy
Husband said is the best ham he had ever eaten!
This was excellent! Thank you for sharing this. My husband and I loved it!