World's Best Cheesy Baked Macaroni & Cheese Recipe - How To Make Stouffer's Style Macaroni And Cheese

Philly boy Jay back here with another video and I got a treat for you guys today .

I'm gonna be showing you guys how to make Stouffer style baked macaroni and cheese .

This recipe is absolutely amazing .

Give it a shot .

You're gonna start off by getting the pot .

You're gonna place the pot over high heat and fill it up with water and we're going to wait until that water comes to a boil you .

The seasonings that you're going to need for your baked macaroni and cheese are black pepper , salt and sugar .

Yes , I said sugar .

We're not gonna be adding a lot of that .

It just balances out the overall taste of the macaroni and cheese .

Add a little something special to it .

Here are the types of cheese that we're gonna be using .

We're gonna be using three different kinds of cheese .

Now , that's not name brand cream cheese , but I recommend that you go out and get Philadelphia cream cheese .

You're gonna need shredded mozzarella , shredded , sharp cheddar cheese and sharp cheddar cheese in the block there .

You're going to need evaporated milk .

That's what I like to use personally , but you can use whole milk if you don't have any and you're going to need margarine or butter .

Either one would do .

And obviously , of course , you're gonna need macaroni .

We're making macaroni and cheese .

So make sure you have a 16 ounce box of macaroni noodles .

Now , our water has come to a boil you .

So we're going to add our macaroni .

Now , now , usually I'll tell you guys to boil you your macaroni or any noodles that you may be boiling for 8 to 10 minutes .

But because we're going to be cooking our noodles again , when we place it in the oven to bake it and it's gonna be in there with all that wet cheese .

You don't need to really cook it for even eight minutes .

I'll say cook it for about five minutes and cut the fire off and allow it to continue cooking in the hot water .

We're going to chop up our cream cheese in our sharp cheddar cheese .

Now chop it up into thin pieces like that there .

OK ?

And then you're gonna cut it lengthwise down twice like that to form a bunch of small pieces of sharp cheddar cheese and the cream cheese .

Take it to another level .

Ah , this is a three cheese , baked macaroni and cheese using three cheeses .

People in my family used to use 567 kind of cheeses , but I wanna stick with three .

So you're going to slice your cream cheese up some pieces and that's the way your cream cheese and your cheddar cheese should look .

So , what we're gonna do now our noodles should be done .

So we're going to drain our noodles in a colander and we're just going to set our noodles aside until we're ready to add them to the cheese sauce , which we are about to make .

Now , this is my favorite part of this particular recipe .

I love making the cheese sauce .

It's just fun to me .

So , what you're gonna do is you're gonna get a pot , you're gonna place it over medium heat and you're going to add your margarine or butter .

Once that melts , you're gonna add your evaporated milk or your whole milk .

Now , the reason why it's important to create a cheese sauce is because it prevents you from having I call it baseless baked macaroni and cheese where certain parts of the macaroni and cheese that is cheese .

So when you allow your cheese to saturate in this cheese sauce , you don't have to worry about there being certain bites that are cheese .

All right , every bite and scoop of this macaroni and cheese that you take is gonna be filled with cheese because you allow the noodles to saturate in the cheese sauce .

We added the seasonings there , the sugar , the salt and the pepper , and now we're going to add our cream cheese and then we're going to add our sharp cheddar cheese that we chopped up earlier , right ?

So at your sharp cheddar cheese and we're just going to allow this to cook over medium heat until your cheese is nice and melted .

It don't have to be completely melted , but you want to make sure that the cheese sauce is pretty smooth .

Ok ?

Now , the reason why I added so much milk is because you want the cheese sauce to be on the soupy side because if you add too much cheese to the milk , it's gonna be really stiff .

And then when you bake it and it come out , you're gonna be left with really stiff baked macaroni and cheese .

So you don't want that because once we place this in the oven , it's going to stiffen the cheese up a bit and some of the milk is gonna kinda evaporate .

All right .

So you don't wanna add too much cheese .

That's why you see that .

It's kind of still really loose .

And that's just to make sure that your baked macaroni and cheese is not dry .

All right , once it's done baking .

So now we're gonna add our macaroni noodles to cheese sauce and we're gonna fold it into this cheese sauce .

You can really eat it like this .

There .

This is like stovetop macaroni and cheese from scratch .

So you can really eat it like this .

That's if you just want stovetop macaroni and cheese , but we're gonna be baking this .

All right .

So , stir that in and make sure that every part of this baked macaroni and cheese is filled with cheese .

Yes .

What you're gonna do now is preheat your oven to 350 degrees .

And while our oven is preheating , we're going to add our macaroni and cheese to the baking pan .

Nice and soupy and cheesy .

Yes , it can be some of the best .

I said , the best macaroni and cheese that you ever tasted in your life .

Don't nobody make macaroni and cheese like Philly boy J This ain't the only way I know how to make it .

I got five baked macaroni and cheese recipes .

I'm gonna show you a few more later on this year .

Just , just keep watching my videos .

All right .

So now you're going to add your mozzarella cheese because we didn't add any mozzarella cheese to this gap .

And you're gonna add some shredded sharp cheddar .

And what we're gonna do first is we're gonna fold that mozzarella cheese and the cheddar cheese into the macaroni .

All right , because we want that mozzarella cheese to be up in there too .

OK .

So fold it in .

We didn't add too much but fold it in .

OK ?

And then what you're gonna do is you're gonna top it with some more cheese , so top it with some more mozzarella and top it with some more sharp cheddar cheese .

OK ?

And what we're gonna do is we're gonna put this in the oven and we're not gonna bake it very long .

I say bake it for about 20 minutes , maybe 30 the most , no more than 30 to no more than 30 minutes because you don't want your macaroni and cheese to dry out and you want it to be loose enough .

So that if you save some for later , once you put it in the refrigerator that once you warm it up again , it'll still be on the loose side .

You don't want really stiff dry macaroni and cheese .

That is not good at all .

Ok .

So just for decoration purposes , I'm gonna Sprinkle a little bit of parsley flakes on top of the macaroni .

Ok .

You could Sprinkle some Italian seasoning if you don't have any parsley .

Ok .

And this is how it look after 25 minutes .

I let mine go for 25 minutes .

Look at that .

Let's scoop some out .

It's making me cry .

Look at the macaroni and cheese .

This look like ST don't like ST , you know , little ST macaroni cheese that come in the box .

This look exactly like sto macaroni and cheese and it tastes better .

Yes , it do .

It tastes better .

Uh , uh , uh , uh , uh , uh , uh , uh , uh , uh , uh , and as you can see , look at the macaroni , look into the crevices in the holes of the macaroni noodles .

It's filled with cheese .

Every ounce of this macaroni and cheese is cheesy .

Every bite that you take is gonna be filled with cheese .

I hope you guys enjoyed this recipe .

You are going to love it .

I'm gonna be doing a macaroni and cheese recipe around Thanksgiving time showing you guys how to make jalapeno macaroni and cheese , spicy macaroni cheese .

And that recipe is even better than this one to me .

Hope you guys enjoy it for the boy Jay showing you guys how to make ST style baked macaroni and cheese .

Peace .