Easy Dry Glazed Ham

This copycat honey baked ham recipe (a simple dry glazed ham recipe) is one of the most popular recipes on my site and has been for several years! It's super easy to make at home, is mostly hands-off time, and is perfect for Easter, Christmas, or regular life meal prep!

Like a dry rub.  But a glaze!  For ham!

Because Beck loves ham.  This was her birthday ham!  

I didn't really intend for it to happen that way, but I knew I wanted to show you a new Big Meat kind of dealio for Christmas, because turkey is all well and good but we kind of know how to do that, you know?  So I decided to make a ham, but then I'd have a whole ham 3 weeks before Christmas.  SO I MADE HAM FOR BECK'S BIRTHDAY. When she turned one. I made little sandwiches for her party and diced up a ton of it for her, and everyone was pleased.  

There is a local-ish regional chain called Honeybaked Ham where we live, and the price for ham there is exorbitant.  Truly ridiculous.  BUT, Honeybaked has this great sugary spicy crust and obviously there is a benefit to outsourcing a thing or two for holiday meals.  I'm a big Honeybaked fan, but wanted to make my own for fun and to save money. The dry rub for ham we make here is a great copycat for much less money and freshly baked ham at home smells really, really good.

Dry Glazed Ham Recipe

I purchased a half ham, spiral sliced with the bone in.  It weighed about 7 pounds, and for this I'd say ¼-1/2 pound of ham per person will be more than enough, especially at a large meal where there are other proteins and lots of side dishes.  Most hams that I saw come with a ham glaze powder packet (or liquid glaze); just throw that away or use it for something else.  We're going to make our own super simple seasoning for this copycat honey baked ham recipe.

Method:

The ham is already fully cooked, so we'll reheat it slowly in the oven.  Then we'll add the seasonings after about half of the time has elapsed, and brush them over and over until the ham is hot all the way through and crispy at the edges from the spices. The cooking time will be 12 minutes per pound at 300F, TOTAL, and about the last hour of that should be with the seasonings on.  So, I knew that my ham should take about an hour and a half, so I cooked it naked for 45 minutes and with the seasonings for 45 minutes.

If you have a much larger or smaller ham, just adjust the cooking times below accordingly.  Also, if you're cooking something else at a different temperature, just add or subtract time based on that - ham is nice and forgiving in that way.  

So!  Place your ham in a baking dish, roasting pan, or on a sheet pan, cut side down.  Cover the pan tightly with foil, and place it in the oven for 45 minutes to an hour.  

Dry Rub For Ham Ingredients

While the ham is cooking, gather the seasoning ingredients.  Sugar, seasoned salt, cinnamon, chili powder, and deli mustard.  The mustard is mostly used to keep the spices stuck to the ham; the end result doesn't have a mustard-y flavor at all.  

Measure the mustard, and mix the spices together in a small dish.  

When the first half of cooking is done, take the ham out of the oven and uncover it.  Use a brush to smear mustard all over the ham, then sprinkle the spice mixture all over it.  It will be thick and some of the spices will fall into the pan - that's ok!  Add a cup of water to the bottom of the roasting dish, too.  

Now, roast the ham uncovered for the last 45 minutes to an hour.  I did one more hour and brushed the ham with its own juices (any spices + mustard + the water in the bottom of the pan) every 15 minutes.  

When the ham is hot all the way through and glazed, it's done!  It's ham, so you know what to do.  It can be served hot, cold, at room temperature - your call.  I've eaten this for every single meal and snacks for the past several days, and am just so proud of the flavor it has.

 The chili powder with the sugar and mustard are out of this world, and I've even thought about doing something similar with a pork tenderloin or even chicken.

The melted sugar gives the glazed effect, and the spice crust was hard to resist. This copycat Honeybaked Ham is the EASIEST glazed ham recipe ever, and I hope you love it as much as we do.

I mostly love that a ham makes a good amount of food, and we use leftovers for sandwiches, to chop up on salads, or in some of our favorite recipes that really repurpose the ham rather than just Eating It Again.

Leftover Ham Recipes

Birthday ham!  Christmas ham!  Ham!  

Do it.  (PS. REALLY REALLY GOOD on Ham Delights and keeps perfectly in the freezer).

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