Easy Baked Mac & Cheese

Name: Easy Baked Mac & Cheese
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 16 oz elbow noodles; 1/4 cup butter; 1/2 cup all-purpose flour; 2 cup half & half; 1 1/2 cup milk; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp ground black pepper; 3/4 tsp mustard powder; 8 dash hot sauce (I use Crystal); 3 stick Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese; 5 slice bacon

CrysLyn912 @cook_2782612

Deltona, FL

Awesome! And super simple! :positive I used real bacon, bacon bits, by Hormel to save even more time!

CrysLyn912 @cook_2782612

Deltona, FL

Awesome! And super simple! :positive I used real bacon, bacon bits, by Hormel to save even more time!

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Ingredients

45 mins

12 servings

16 ozelbow noodles
1/4 cupbutter
1/2 cupall-purpose flour
2 cuphalf & half
1 1/2 cupmilk
1 tspsalt
1/2 tspground black pepper
3/4 tspmustard powder
8 dashhot sauce (I use Crystal)
3 stickCracker Barrel Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese
5 slicebacon

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Steps

45 mins

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.