Copycat Honey Baked Ham Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What makes Honey Baked Ham different? ›

Slow-smoked for up to 24 hours and authentically spiral-sliced, each ham is handcrafted with our sweet, crunchy glaze. The result is that every rich and flavorful bite, and every slice, is fall-apart-in-your-mouth perfect.

The Honey Baked Hams® are fully cooked and ready to enjoy. Take the meat out of the refrigerator to stand for at least 30 min before serving. Refrigerate unused portions immediately. We recommend that you do not heat Honey Baked Hams® - they are made to enjoy right from the refrigerator.

The glaze should not be applied until the final hour to 30 minutes, in order to avoid burning the sugars. What you're going to do with the glaze ingredients is just combine most of them into a paste, and then apply it to the ham. After that, the heat in your oven will take care of everything.

By studding the ham with beautifully scented Whole Cloves you create a wonderful Christmasy aroma and flavour that permeates the ham gently through the cooking process. It also looks very effective once the ham is cooked!

After curing, our hams spend up to 24 hours smoking—at least twice as long as the industry standard—over a select blend of hardwood chips. The long smoking process gives Honey Baked Ham its rich, smoky flavor our customers love.

No. Honey Baked is good, but you can do better for 25% of the price. Go to the grocery store and get a Cook's brand ham. Make sure it's Cook's—other brands I've tried are too salty.

The Honey Baked Ham Company continues to be a family-owned business and serve customers online and at more than 400 year round retail locations in 40 states across the United States.

HoneyBaked Ham® and Turkey Breasts are best served directly from the refrigerator – simply thaw and they're ready for the table. If you prefer your meat warmed, gently heat on low heat, only by the slice, not heating the entire ham or turkey breast. Heating may cause the meat to dry out and lose flavor.

If you're unable to pick up your order on the scheduled date, a HoneyBaked® associate may call or email you to see if we can hold your order for another pickup date.

Is Honey Baked Ham processed meat? ›

Yep. “Processed meat” is any meat that's preserved by salting, smoking or curing, or by adding chemical preservatives. That means sausage, bacon, cold cuts like pastrami and salami, hot dogs and, yes, ham. Why does it matter whether or not ham counts as processed meat?

Each Honey Baked Ham is cured for up to 24 hours using a signature process that enhances the flavor of the meat. Because we don't add any extra water or juices, our hams weigh the same going into the curing process as they do coming out.

Keep the Honey Baked Ham in its original foil wrapper or remove the wrapper and wrap with your own foil to keep it from drying out. Maintain the oven temperature at about 275°F to 300°F. A general time guide is to heat for 10 minutes for every pound of ham.

Glaze Packet Ingredients: Sugar, Gelatin, Fructose, Honey Powder (Honey, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Wheat Starch, Corn Syrup, Soy Flour, Soy Lecithin), Paprika, Dextrose, Natural Flavors, Spices.

Some cuts expose a few white spots with a limestone-like consistency, which are the result of prolonged curing. These show that the ham is of the highest quality. Technically they are crystals of an amino acid called tyrosine.

It is only when the ham gets to your local HoneyBaked store that a special machine thin-slices the tender meat in a spiral fashion around the bone. Then, one at a time, each ham is then coated with the glaze—a blend that is similar to what might be used to make pumpkin pie.

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.