Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, easy baked mac & cheese. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Easy Baked Mac & Cheese is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Easy Baked Mac & Cheese is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy baked mac & cheese using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Baked Mac & Cheese:
- Prepare 16 oz elbow noodles
- Take 1/4 cup butter
- Take 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 2 cup half & half
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup milk
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- Get 3/4 tsp mustard powder
- Take 8 dash hot sauce (I use Crystal)
- Take 3 stick Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese
- Make ready 5 slice bacon
Instructions to make Easy Baked Mac & Cheese:
- Preheat oven to 375
- Boil elbow noodles for approx. 9-10 min or until al dente.
- While noodles are cooking, shred cheddar cheese.
- Melt butter in saucepan and add flour, mustard powder, hot sauce, salt & pepper. Let bubble, while stirring for 2-3 min.
- Add milk and half & half to saucepan while stirring.
- Once milk sauce has become warm, put 2 sticks worth of cheese (16oz) in milk mixture and stir
- Drain noodles and return to pot. Add cheese sauce to noodles. Add mac & cheese to ungreased 13x9 baking dish.
- Bake mac & cheese for 30 minutes or until bubbly.
- While baking macaroni, cook bacon slices and once cooled, crumble bacon, set aside.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle last stick of cheese on top, followed by crumbled bacon.
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