Skip the long wait and high price at the deli—this 5-ingredient baked honey ham comes together in under 1.5 hours, tastes sweet and savory, and fills your kitchen with that classic holiday aroma. You just need a spiral-cut ham, honey, brown sugar, mustard and a splash of orange juice for a dish that looks impressive but couldn't be any easier.
Servings 20servings
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Ingredients
4-5lbs.hamspiral-sliced, fully cooked
1cupapple ciderthe sweet juice – not vinegar
¼cupbrown sugarfirmly packed
¼cupwhole grain mustardprepared mustard jar with whole mustard seeds
¼cuphoney
Method
Heat oven to 350F with rack on lower position.
Mix together apple cider, brown sugar, mustard, and honey in a bowl. Mix well to fully incorporate basting sauce.
Place ham in a 13×9 baking dish. Coat ham with a generous amount of sauce. Bake for 60-70 minutes, basting thoroughly every 15 minutes.
To serve pre-cut slices of ham, arrange slices neatly on a serving dish and brush more sauce all over ham slices. Serve with leftover sauce (see note).
If serving ham whole, be sure to have sauce available for drizzling. The sauce is what makes this ham so great!
Notes
We like bone-in, spiral sliced ham best. You can also slice ham yourself and arrange it neatly on a baking dish and proceed with the recipe.
Honey mustard sauce is more of a saucyau jusconsistency, rather than a thicker gravy texture.
For thicker sauce: Place remaining sauce (sauce that wasn’t used during basting) in a saucepan and bring to a low boil. In a small bowl, stir and dissolve 1 TB cornstarch in 2 TB cool water to make a cornstarch slurry. Stir in slurry a little at a time to the boiling sauce, adding only as much as needed until sauce is thickened to your liking.