Mac Too Cheese Bites

This is such a fun (and easy) recipe. It is bully for kids parties or teen parties as well as you lot tin fifty-fifty jazz them upward for adult appetizers. They remain warm for quite a while, but are fifty-fifty tasty at room temperature (nice as well as creamy).

Mildly seasoned for picky toddlers (perfect size), or add together a picayune aught yesteryear using one-half cheddar as well as one-half pepper jack cheese and/or bacon bits.

1/2 pound elbow macaroni
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1  1/2 cups milk
2 cups shredded sudden cheddar cheese (divided)
2 ounces cream cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
small pinch of cayenne
1 beaten egg

Boil the elbow macaroni inwards SALTED H2O for 8 minutes, hence drain as well as laid aside. Preheat oven to 400° as well as spray MINI muffin pan alongside cooking spray.

Note: Salting the H2O is important. If you lot don't you lot volition cause got to growth the total of tabular array salt inwards the sauce.


In medium size pan, melt butter as well as stir inwards flour until smoothen as well as bubbly, allow it simmer for close thirty seconds or so.

Slowly add together the milk (whisk land you lot add together it) as well as pick out it to a simmer (it volition thicken only a little).

Stir inwards 1 1/2 cups of the cheese (set aside the other 1/2 cup) as well as add together the cream cheese, salt, pepper as well as cayenne. Stir to melt.

Mix the cooked macaroni, the cheese sauce as well as the beaten egg. Spoon mac as well as cheese into greased mini muffin cups as well as transcend alongside only a few shreds of the remaining cheddar cheese.

Bake at 400° for xv minutes.  IMPORTANT: Let cool for v minutes earlier you lot accept them out of the pan.

NOTES: I gear upward mine for fourteen minutes, hence position them nether the broiler for the end infinitesimal (but lookout adult man them hence they don't over brown).

NOTES: If you lot similar a picayune spice, use half shredded sudden cheddar cheese as well as 1/2 pepper jack cheese.

NOTES: You tin fifty-fifty sneak inwards roughly finely chopped broccoli for color.

 
This recipe makes close four dozen mini bites
 
 
ENJOY !!!
 
Original recipe constitute at www.chef-in-training.com   (and adapted yesteryear )

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