Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade Baked Mac n Cheese

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, baked mac n cheese. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baked Mac n Cheese is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Baked Mac n Cheese is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have baked mac n cheese using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Mac n Cheese:

1. Prepare butter or margarine
2. Take all-purpose flour
3. Take warm milk. microwave 2 cups of milk for about a minute to a minute and a half
4. Make ready salt
5. Make ready ground black pepper
6. Make ready chili powder…… to taste. you can substitute with cayenne for more spice if you wish. The cover photo shown, I used chili powder
7. Make ready cream cheese
8. Prepare shredded sharp white cheddar (I use cracker barrel aged reserve)
9. Make ready elbow macaroni cooked drained
10. Get seasoned bread crumbs

Steps to make Baked Mac n Cheese:

1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Use a 3 qt pan to melt butter or margarine on medium low heat. Add flour and whisk until smooth and lump free. Slowly stir in warm milk whisking constantly. Let cook for about 5 minutes or until thickened.
2. Add salt, pepper and chili powder and cream cheese. Mix until cream cheese melts thoroughly. Remove from heat and immediately add shredded cheese (save some for the top). Mix well.
3. In a medium sized mixing bowl, pour cheese mixture over cooked, drained macaroni. Mix until all pasta is coated and let it set in the bowl for 5 minutes or so. This helps give the pasta time to absorb some of the cheese sauce.
4. Spoon macaroni and cheese mixture into a greased 2 quart baking dish. Add some shredded cheese to the top and sprinkle with seasoned bread crumbs. For more crunch add more crumbs. Bake for 20 minutes or until bubbly and golden brown.

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