THE GREATEST MAC AND CHEESE YOU WILL EVER HAVE!

Disclaimer

This is my first ever written recipe for anybody other than myself to see. Be gentle <3

Ingredients

• 10oz Sharp Cheddar (grated)

• 6oz Cream Cheese (cubed)

• 12oz Cavatappi Pasta

• 1 cup of Heavy Cream

• 1 cup of Milk

• White Wine

• Panko Breadcrumbs

• Cayenne Pepper

• Black (and White if you want, it's not neccesary though) Pepper

• Smoked Paprika

• Butter

• 1 teaspoon of Sodium Citrate (THIS ONE ISN'T OPTIONAL)

Directions

1. Add pasta to boiling salt water, and cook it until it's slightly underdone. You'll be doing this part while you're doing everything else, so it's not a big deal

2. Start on the sauce. You want to combine your milk and cream, and add a glug of white wine. Put this mixture on medium-low heat, and keep stirring it until it's warm. You don't want it to burn.

3. Start toasting your panko. Add butter to a pan, and add panko to said pan on medium-high heat, cook and mix the panko until it's browned.

4. Your sauce mixture should be warm by now, and ready for the magic. You wanna add that sodium citrate, and stir it up. Let it continue to cook for a little bit just to make sure it's all in there.

5. Start mixing your cheddar into the sauce mixture. Put it in little by little until it's all melted. It should be a little bit thin right now, but far from watery Taste it, and if you want it to be more cheddar-ier, add more cheddar at this point.

6. Add your blocks of cream cheese to the sauce. Mix it until the blocks have been made smaller, but are still there. The sauce should still be on the thinner side, but not watery.

7. Add cayenne, smoked paprika, and your pepper to taste

8. Get a 9x9 pan and smear butter onto it all. Get your hands dirty, just rub it in. You want the butter on the sides and the bottom of the pan, don't skimp on it.

9. Add pasta to 9x9 pan

10. Pour sauce over the pasta, and mix it all up

11. Put the breadcrumbs on top of it all. Do this to your taste, I personally leave a lot of the cheese exposed because I love the crunch of the slightly burnt cheese, but that's just me.

12. Put in oven at 425 degrees for 20-30 minutes, depending on how crispy you want it. Leave it in during the preheating too, it makes it better. Don't know why, it just does.

13. Remove from the oven, and let rest for 5-10 minutes. If you don't do this, the sauce will just run away from the pasta once you take it out of the oven.

14. Cut yourself a corner piece, and enjoy!

bon appetit