Simple Way to Make Any-night-of-the-week Easy Baked Mac & Cheese

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, easy baked mac & cheese. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Easy Baked Mac & Cheese is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Easy Baked Mac & Cheese is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Easy Baked Mac & Cheese:

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