how to make a cheese sauce for mac and cheese

To prepare the cheese sauce, place all ingredients into a medium sauce pan and heat until the cheese is melted and the mixture blended.Cook pasta according to package directions.Also included in the recipe are ideas for adding in some pureed vegetables like sweet potato or cauliflower to the cheese sauce, just to get some vegetables in somehow!Īnd our toughest critic? What does she think about how this mac & cheese sauce tastes? Her words: “This is VERY GOOD!”

We’ve used a blend of cheeses and seasonings to create this copycat recipe. (As anyone with a young child knows, sometimes, it’s as much about how the food looks – never mind how it tastes!) Like most kids, one of Emma’s favorite foods of all-time is macaroni & cheese – and this recipe for our Copycat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese comes very close to recreating both the flavor, as well as the distinctive yellow-orange color of the cheese sauce from the package.

(And it’s not for our lack of trying to get her to try new foods!) Our six-year-old is a very picky eater, and we can count on two hands the foods she willingly eats. So I bet you’re probably thinking that having parents who write a food blog would mean that our six-year-old daughter is a little ‘foodie’ herself? And she’s willing to try many of the delicious foods that we make for our blog?

How to make a cheese sauce for mac and cheese