Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, baked mac n cheese. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baked Mac n Cheese is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Baked Mac n Cheese is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Baked Mac n Cheese:

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