Grammy's Kitchen · Macaroni and Cheese · Easy Mac & Cheese (Stovetop, no Flour Needed
One of 120 macaroni and cheese recipes we measured
from sugarspunrun.com
198 cooks on sugarspunrun.com rate it 4.8★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 120.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| cheese | 87% | 112% |
| dairy | 108% | 168% |
| fat | 13% | 13% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| different cheeses | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| melt idx | 0.8 | 0.6 |
| cheese flavor idx | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| stretch idx | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 227 g | 8 oz dried macaroni (about 2 cups) |
| 244 g | 1 cup whole milk |
| 28 g | 2 Tablespoons salted or unsalted butter |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 1 g | 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika ((optional)) |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon ground mustard ((optional)) |
| 113 g | 1 cup freshly shredded mild or medium cheddar cheese or Colby jack cheese (see note) |
| 84 g | 4 slices American Cheese (see note) |
Method: 8 steps, published by sugarspunrun.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I so loved that you shared a recipe your mom made from scratch and that she just threw together when when wanted to make Mac n Cheese. So many of our great family recipes were cooked like that and if you didn’t spend the time with them in the kitchen the recip” — a cook, 5.0★
“I’ve tried a bunch of Mac n cheese recipes in the past, some of them called for way too much butter, milk, or cheese. I’d end up with a stomachache and an angry family (they hate the smell of Mac n cheese). I just made this and I’m eating it right now. I halve” — a cook, 5.0★