Recipe of Award-winning Easy Baked Mac & Cheese

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, easy baked mac & cheese. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Baked Mac & Cheese is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Easy Baked Mac & Cheese is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook easy baked mac & cheese using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Baked Mac & Cheese:

1. Prepare 16 oz elbow noodles
2. Get 1/4 cup butter
3. Prepare 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
4. Make ready 2 cup half & half
5. Make ready 1 1/2 cup milk
6. Prepare 1 tsp salt
7. Get 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
8. Get 3/4 tsp mustard powder
9. Make ready 8 dash hot sauce (I use Crystal)
10. Make ready 3 stick Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese
11. Take 5 slice bacon

Steps to make Easy Baked Mac & Cheese:

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. Boil elbow noodles for approx. 9-10 min or until al dente.
3. While noodles are cooking, shred cheddar cheese.
4. Melt butter in saucepan and add flour, mustard powder, hot sauce, salt & pepper. Let bubble, while stirring for 2-3 min.
5. Add milk and half & half to saucepan while stirring.
6. Once milk sauce has become warm, put 2 sticks worth of cheese (16oz) in milk mixture and stir
7. Drain noodles and return to pot. Add cheese sauce to noodles. Add mac & cheese to ungreased 13x9 baking dish.
8. Bake mac & cheese for 30 minutes or until bubbly.
9. While baking macaroni, cook bacon slices and once cooled, crumble bacon, set aside.
10. Remove from oven and sprinkle last stick of cheese on top, followed by crumbled bacon.

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