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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.
I followed the recipe, and the pineapple glazed ham came was delicious for our Christmas dinner! Thanks!
Doubled the glaze and added crushed. Delicious. Thank you
Moist and tender, delicious flavor. We loved our Easter ham!
I hate to say I did not like this recipe that much. I don’t know if I simply didn’t do it correctly or not. The glaze never seem to really thicken, and when I went to coat the ham with the pineapple glaze the pineapple simply fell off the ham and into the dish. I used pineapple tidbits which I would not suggest substituting for crushed pineapple. Also, the ham used in the video is more flat on top and the ham that I used so the pineapple was able to stick to it more. I also added a little bit of cornstarch to thicken it up in the end. It might worth another try sometime to see if it goes better.
I don’t remember the last time I baked a ham, but I bought one for Easter this year and found this recipe.
Absolutely delicious and easy. I only had a 10 Oz can of pineapple and it worked well.
Only modification I did was use parchment paper in my oven roaster (with the lid on for not only easy clean up, but the parchment paper is compostable)….
Will make this again. Great recipe!
Do I make any changes to the recipe if I use an electric roaster?
Have made many hams over the years but none as delicious as this recipe. My family could not stop eating “just one more slice.” Glaze is a game changer. Thank you.
I have not used the recipe yet, I will for Christmas dinner. It sounds wonderful!
It was a success! Received many compliments this year. Used pineapple bits left over from cutting up a fresh one and pulsed in food processor. Ground cinnamon from a stick. Worth the extra effort. Flavors were great and ham fell off the bone.
Hello, I’m cooking thanksgiving dinner for my first year in my recently purchased first home!! I’ve never cooked a ham before, so this will be my first time, I’m so excited. Anyhow I was wondering if I could use this exact recipe for a 9 pound boneless fully cooked ham? Or if there would need to be any changes with the recipe since I’m making a different kind of ham then used. Thank you so much for any info. Happy holidays. 🥰