Baked Ham with Apple Cider

This Baked Ham Recipe only takes minutes of hands on prep and feeds a crowd making it the perfect impressive, hassle free main dish for Christmas and Easter! I've also included detailed instructions on How to Bake a Ham so you are guaranteed a perfectly deliciously, perfectly beautifully baked ham every time!

no longer simplest is a baked ham one of the easiest dinners to prep for the holidays, it serves loads of people and is extraordinarily most economical. To acquire the juiciest ham, it's miles critical to apply a bone-in ham and to not overcook it, because in the end, the spiral smoked ham is already cooked, we're simply warming it thru.

INGREDIENTS

1. 1 bone-in smoked spiral-sliced ham (8-11 pounds)
2. Aluminum foil
3. 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cubed
4. Apple Cider Glaze
5. 1 1/2 cups apple cider
6. 1/2 cup pure maple syrup NOT imitation
7. 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
8. 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
9. 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
10. 2 tablespoons yellow mustard
11. 2 teaspoons cornstarch
12. 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
13. 1/4 tsp EACH ground nutmeg, ground cloves, dried thyme, pepper, chili powder

DIRECTIONS

1. Dispose of ham from fridge and permit take a seat at room temperature 2-three hours.
2. Whisk collectively all the Apple Cider Maple Glaze ingredients in a medium saucepan. convey to a boil. reduce to a simmer over medium warmness, stirring frequently, till thickened and decreased, about 15-20 minutes. Stir in butter until melted. Glaze will thicken greater because it stands.
3. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. alter oven rack to lowest position. Pour 2 cups water into bottom of roasting pan if you have a roasting rack. location roasting rack inner pan. (pass step in case you don't have a roasting rack.)
4. Roll out 2 massive pieces of foil to wrap your ham in. vicinity ham on foil and brush all over with some of the Glaze, consisting of in between slices. Tightly wrap ham with foil and location on its facet at the roasting rack (or bottom of pan). Bake ham until the middle registers 100-one hundred ten tiers F, approximately 2 hours (about 12 mins in keeping with pound).
5. get rid of ham from oven and increase oven temperature to four hundred tiers F.
6. carefully spread foil to reveal ham and brush ham all over with Glaze (if Glaze has come to be to thick to comb, return to heat to loosen). depart ham uncovered and bake for 20-half-hour or till edges are golden brown and caramelized.
7. put off ham from oven and brush again all over with Glaze. Spoon juices from bottom of pan throughout ham. Loosely cowl with foil. let rest for 15 minutes then spoon more juices over ham and serve with any remaining Glaze.