Nothing says comfort food more than piping hot casserole dishes full of Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese. Baked Macaroni can be a meal in and of itself or a hearty side that goes along with many family favorites.
Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese Large Family Recipe
In today’s new cooking vlog for Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese, I share that we enjoyed this Mac and Cheese with baked chicken and steamed vegetables.
You also might want to serve it with Slow Cooker Chicken BBQ, Easy Italian Chicken, or Slow Cooker Meatloaf.
This large family style Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese recipe makes two 9×13 pans plus an 8×8 pan.
Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Your family will love this large family style Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese! Make several pans at a time and share any extra with the neighbors. This recipe makes two 9×13 pans plus an 8×8 pan.
Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (or margarine)
- 1 cup flour
- 8 cups milk
- 1 tsp salt/pepper to taste
- 8 cups shredded cheese
- 48 oz cooked and drained elbow macaroni
Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese Directions
- Melt 1 cup butter or margarine (whichever you have on hand) in the pot. Stir continuously so you don’t burn your butter as I do sometimes 🙂
- Pour 1 cup flour into melted butter and stir together until flour is thoroughly moist.
- Whisk in 8 cups of milk. Stir constantly for several minutes until boiling.
- Stir in 8 cups of cheese until completely melted. This takes about 2-3 minutes of additional stirring. Remove from heat when thoroughly melted.
- Pour in 48 oz of cooked and drained elbow macaroni into your large pot of homemade cheese sauce. Stir gently, so you don’t mash your noodles.
- Spray your baking dishes with non-stick spray. Fill each dish 3/4 of the way full with Baked Mac and Cheese mixture. Top with removing shredded cheese if you’d like. I didn’t have any more on hand, and it still turned out nice and bubbly.
- Place baking dishes full of your yummy Baked Mac and Cheese into your preheated oven at 375 for 25 minutes. When your oven beeps in 25 minutes, check the top of your baked macaroni and cheese. You can turn your heat off, but let your dishes sit 5 or so more minutes in the oven, depending on how brown and crispy you’d like the top.
Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter or margarine
- 1 cup flour
- 8 cups milk
- 1 tsp salt/pepper to taste
- 8 cups shredded cheese
- 48 oz cooked and drained elbow macaroni
Instructions
Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese Directions
- Melt 1 cup butter or margarine (whichever you have on hand) in the pot. Stir continuously so you don't burn your butter like I do sometimes 🙂
- Pour 1 cup flour into melted butter and stir together until flour is thoroughly moist.
- Whisk in 8 cups of milk. Stir constantly for several minutes until boiling.
- Stir in 8 cups of cheese until completely melted. This takes about 2-3 minutes of additional stirring. Remove from heat when thoroughly melted.
- Pour in 48 oz of cooked and drained elbow macaroni into your large pot of homemade cheese sauce. Stir gently, so you don't mash your noodles.
- Spray your baking dishes with non-stick spray. Fill each dish 3/4 of the way full with Baked Mac and Cheese mixture. Top with removing shredded cheese if you'd like. I didn't have any more on hand and it still turned out nice and bubbly.
- Place baking dishes full of your yummy Baked Mac and Cheese into your preheated oven at 375 for 25 minutes. When your oven beeps in 25 minutes, check the top of your baked macaroni and cheese. You can turn your heat off, but let your dishes sit 5 or so more minutes in the oven, depending on how brown and crispy you'd like the top.
MORE Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese Recipes
You might enjoy my other Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese recipes. I’ve also included recipe variations if you’re in the mood for Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese but maybe don’t have those exact ingredients. You could also be like me and craving noodles of some sort. 🙂
BAKED BEEF MACARONI AND CHEESE FREEZER MEAL | LARGE FAMILY RECIPES make one for now and two for later in deep dish 19×11 pans! This would break down to being around 7 or so 9×13 pans if you want to go all out.
CHICKEN BROCCOLI ALFREDO NOODLE BAKE It’s chicken, it’s broccoli, it’s alfredo noodles. You can’t go wrong with those!
KIELBASA AND CHEESY BROCCOLI BOW TIE BAKE Again with the broccoli 🙂
TUNA NOODLE CASSEROLE Another “noodlely” favorite
Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese | Large Family Recipes VLOG
In this new Mac and Cheese cooking vlog, it gets very noisy. The kids were dancing and having a good ol’ time, which made me feel like maybe I could video my dinner making attempts. I realize now by the high-pitch carrying-on that things get thunderous at several points. Hope you love us and our Mac and Cheese anyway! Real life noise included! xoxo
Click here to watch the full Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese | Large Family Recipes Cooking Vlog on YouTube!
This is a great recipe to feed a crowd. I help at the local “soup kitchen” and this would be perfect and much enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.
Is there a way to print out your recipes? That would be so helpful!
Yes Janet, there sure it! On the recipe in the post, there’s a “print” button in the right-hand corner. Do you see it? It prints it out nicely 🙂
I did and it attempted to print out 22 pages of the whole web page. Not sure what I did wrong!
Here’s the link to download https://thelargefamilytable.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Homemade-Baked-Macaroni-and-Cheese-Large-Family-Recipes.pdf 😀
Aha! It printed perfectly. Thanks a bunch! <3
My whole family lives this recipe. Actually we have loved ever recipe we have tried of your’s! Thank you so much for such wonderful encouragement to us moms!
Trying this recipe for the first time today! So excited since we’ve tried other mac and cheese recipes and they all lacked something. This was really easy to whip up too…had it in the oven in under 25 min.
Can you place in freezer for a freezer Meal? before or after cooking?
Put it in the freezer before baking (wrap in foil and plastic wrap). Set it out in the fridge the night before. When you bake, bake at 400ish for about an hour or until hot and bubbly. xoxo
do u have to bake it could it be just regular mac and cheese?
It can be regular mac & cheese just fine. Baking it just gives it a nice gooey crust 🙂
How many and what size pans do you use? I want to try it but first want to do smaller version just to double check everyone likes it. Also, what type cheese do you use, cheddar, colby jack, etc? Thank you!
So easy, so cheap and it was absolutely delicious. We had a party for my mother’s 50th birthday, and people thought we order the Mac and cheese from a restaurant. Had to brag a little, but it was a hit!
I’m so glad, Kenzie!! xoxo
How many 9X13 dishes do most of your recipes like this make? Curious so that when dishes like this are made, I know that there will be one for dinner that night and then to know how many will be frozen will help with meal planning. I am getting together with friends over Christmas break and we are doing a big freezer cooking spree. So knowing how many dishes this makes will also help with our buying supplies and food. I have printed out many of your recipes that we voted on trying but now we have to figure out how many dishes each one makes. THANK YOU!
I have to make it the night before Thanksgiving and bake it the day of. What is the oven temp and time required to bake it?
I want to know this too. I’d like to know this for all the casserole dishes.
Thanks for these recipes! As a military wife I do TONS of events where homemade dishes are REALLY and TRULY appreciated. I have been double or tripling my own recipes but it’s nice to have some ready made crowd pleasers. Yours are so economical, people think I spend a fortune feeding the troops- but honestly with a little planning and big pots and pans- it’s no more costly than cooking for my family and it’s tons cheaper than a caterer. The soldiers always say it tastes like their Mom, Grandma or Aunties cooked- reminds them of home and family! Thanks.