Crock Pot Honey Glazed Ham will enhance a smaller boneless ham with pineapple, honey, and spices to make a great holiday main dish.
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A great-tasting moist honey-glazed ham from your crock pot, and you don't need to eat ham for a week. Using a quarter of boneless precooked ham (about 2 pounds) is just the right size for the smaller household. Or use a half-boneless precooked ham if needed.
😊Why you will make this recipe
- The honey glaze and pineapple will make a juicy and tasty ham easily. Worth the little work it will take.
- Perfect for smaller households at Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter holiday meals. Or as a second main course for larger gatherings.
- Fits nicely in a 3.5 quart or larger crock pot.
- It doesn't take up the oven space you need for other dishes at holiday meals.
- Use either a quarter or half precooked boneless ham.
- Easy enough for a quick family dinner.
This recipe combines several larger inspiration recipes, but if you are doing a larger ham, check out Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Ham ~ Holiday Dinner from the Crock Pot! At Five Heart Home.
🐖Ingredients
- Boneless ham— quarter or half
- Crushed pineapple
- Honey
- Brown sugar
- Dry mustard
- Ground cloves
- Cinnamon
👨🍳How to cook crock pot honey glazed ham
- Place crushed pineapple in the bottom of a crock pot coated with PAM cooking spray.
- Brush the ham with honey.
- Mix brown sugar with ground cloves, cinnamon, and dry mustard.
- Pack the brown sugar mixture on the ham and move the ham cut side down to the crock pot on top of the pineapple.
- Cook for approximately 3 hours on low to an internal temp of 140°-150°—baste with the pineapple and juice in the crock pot hourly.
- Remove from crock pot and allow to sit for 5 minutes before slicing. Garnish with some of the pineapple solution.
⏰How long to cook a small ham in a crock pot
A quarter ham should take about 2+ hours on low. A half ham will be about 4+ hours on low. Cook until an internal temperature of 140°-150°.
Time will vary by the crock pot and the size/thickness of the ham.
How much ham to buy?
Plan about ½ pound of boneless ham per person. For a bone-in ham, you should plan for ¾ to 1 pound of ham per person.
A quarter boneless ham runs about 2 to 2 ¼ pounds, which makes 4 good size servings. Just right for the smaller household.
This is an easy recipe to double to the approximately 4-pound half ham size. If it fits in your crock pot, it will work.
Just in case you need it; What to Do With Leftover Ham.
♨️Cooking a half ham
This recipe is for a one-quarter ham of just over 2 pounds. If you need more, buy the half ham, which will be about 4 pounds.
Keep pineapple the same and up the other ingredients by about 50%. That should take about 4 hours.
❓FAQs
Boneless ham comes in two varieties. The first is pieces of ham pressed together. That is canned or deli ham. Not necessarily bad, but this is not what we are discussing.
The second type of boneless ham will be shaped like an oval and sealed in plastic. You can buy a whole, half, or quarter ham. So great for smaller households that don’t want to eat ham for a week.
They are an actual ham with the bone cut out. They are already fully cooked and ready to eat. They are brined and salted like bone-in hams, which makes them hard to get wrong.
Store the ham and the pineapple with liquid in separate airtight containers. Good refrigerated for 4 days. Or store in the freezer for 3 months.
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🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions
Prep a small crock pot with a good coat of PAM cooking spray. Place an 8 oz of crushed pineapple in the bottom of the crock pot.
Brush the ham with a generous amount of honey, about 1-2 tablespoons.
Mix ½ cup brown sugar with ¼ teaspoon of ground cloves, cinnamon, and dry mustard. Pack the brown sugar mixture on the ham.
Move the ham cut side down to the crock pot on top of the pineapple. Pile any remaining brown sugar on top of the ham. Cook for approximately 3 hours on low.
Every hour while cooking, spoon some of the pineapple solution on top of the ham and check the temperature. Cook to an internal temp of 140°-150°. Your time may vary due to the difference in crock pots and the size and thickness of the ham.
Remove from crock pot and allow to sit for 5 minutes before slicing. Garnish with some of the pineapple solution.
Recipe
Smaller Crock Pot Honey Glazed Ham
Ingredients
- 2 pound boneless ham - about
- 1-2 tablespoons honey
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon dry mustard
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 8 oz crushed pineapple
Instructions
- Prep a small crock pot with a good coat of PAM cooking spray. Place an 8 oz of crushed pineapple in the bottom of the crock pot.
- Brush the ham with a generous amount of honey, about 1-2 tablespoons.
- Mix ½ cup brown sugar with ¼ teaspoon of ground cloves, cinnamon, and dry mustard. Pack the brown sugar mixture on the ham.
- Move the ham cut side down to the crock pot on top of the pineapple. Pile any remaining brown sugar mixture on top of the ham. Cook for approximately 3 hours on low.
- Every hour while cooking, spoon some of the pineapple solution on top of the ham and check the temperature. Cook to an internal temp of 140°-150°. Your time may vary due to the difference in crock pots and the size and thickness of the ham.
- Remove from crock pot and allow to sit for 5 minutes before slicing. Garnish with some of the pineapple solution.
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Recipe Notes
Pro Tips:
- Plan about ½ pound of boneless ham per person.
- If you want a 4 pounds half ham, keep pineapple the same and up the other ingredients by about 50%. It should take about 4 hours to cook.
- The crock pot I used was 3.5 quarts. This would be fine in a bigger pot. As long as the ham fits, you are fine.
- You can cut the amount of pineapple in half, but it makes a great topping a the end.
- Good refrigerated for 3-4 days. Should also freeze well for 3 months.
To adjust the recipe size:
You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.
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Editor's Note: Originally Published March 19, 2016. Updated with expanded options, refreshed photos, and a table of contents to help navigation.
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Abby
Could I substitute maple syrup for honey?
Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan
Hi Abby,
Welcome to the blog. And that is a definite yes.
Dan
Rita
I have a 3oz ham I want to cook in a crockpot but don’t know how long to cook it
Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan
Hi Rita,
Welcome to the blog.
I'm assuming you mean 3 pounds not ounces. For 3 pounds, it will be about 2 1/2 to 3 hours to get to an internal temperature of 140°-150°. It will vary some by your crock pot, the shape of the ham and starting temperature of the ham.
Dan
Suzanne
Hi! I don’t understand when you say “cut side”. The small boneless hams I buy all have a rind all around them, even on the flat bottom. Do you cut the rind off the bottom before putting on the honey or just smear it over the flat bottom, rind and all?
Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan
Hi Suzanne,
I'm not sure what you have—there are lots of variations. A whole boneless ham is about 8-10 pounds and is an oblong round tube. A half boneless ham is just cut in half with so just a shorter tube with one flat side. This recipe uses a 1/4 boneless ham so the half is cut the longer way so there is two flat sides with a cross-section being a half circle. See the images in the post.
Now... what to do, not much get through a rind. So you want some ham without rind so some flavor penetrates. So If it is a smaller ham but rind all around, I would suggest removing some of it.
Hope that helps.
Dan
Krissy
Is it okay for me to place this in the crockpot in the morning 8 am, cook it for the about of time listed, and leave it on warm in my crockpot until dinner time?
Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan
Hi Krissy,
Welcome to the blog.
That will not give good results. You can usually "keep warm" for an hour or two but longer will start to effect the texture and the meat will become dry as the fluid in the cells come out. Think if it as eating at a buffet where the meat has be setting for 5-6 hours.
Dan