A baked Mac and Cheese recipe features four types of cheese.
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Editor’s note: The Daily Reporter is featuring local recipes and the stories behind them. Here, Morristown residents Liz Rodenhuis and daughter Presley share two holiday favorites.
“Presley and I picked the Cinnamon Sugar French Toast Bake recipe to honor our good friend Margie Clark. We wanted to enjoy a recipe that we had never tried before, but knew that it had to be yummy because our friend Margie put it in the Homemade Hometown Favorites Cookbook by the Hancock County Extension Homemakers,” Liz Rodenhuis writes. The second recipe we made was my Baked Mac and Cheese recipe that I have changed up over the years.”
Baked Mac and Cheese
1 box of elbow macaroni
2 bags of mild cheddar shredded cheese
1 bag of sharp cheddar shredded cheese
1 bag of mozzarella shredded cheese
4 oz of cream cheese
1/2 cup of sour cream
1 egg
1 stick of butter
1/4 cup of milk
Optional: bacon bits
Cook macaroni as normal. Drain noodles, add egg, all of the cheese except one of the mild shredded cheese bags. Add in cream cheese, sour cream, stick of butter, and 1/4 cup of milk. Mix in half of the bag of bacon bits. Pour into a 9×13 baking dish. Sprinkle the remaining bag of milk cheddar cheese on the top and add the remainder of your bacon bits to the top. Cook for 30 minutes covered and 15 minutes uncovered. Enjoy!
Cinnamon Sugar French Toast Bake
1 loaf French bread, cut into 1-inch cubes
8 eggs, slightly beaten
3 cups milk
4 tsp. Sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla
¾ tsp salt
Topping:
2 Tb. butter
3 Tb. sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
Maple syrup optional
Place bread cubes in a greased 9×13 baking dish. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla and salt. Pour over bread. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes prior to baking. Dot with butter. Combine sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle over the top. Cover and bake at 350 degrees until a knife comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes.
This recipe is featured in the “Homemade Hometown Favorites” cookbook by the Hancock County Extension Homemakers. The book is available for $10 with proceeds benefiting local organizations. For information, call Margie Clark at 317-498-1549.
