Breakfast Mac & Cheese is a delicious mashup of cheesy macaroni and your morning bacon and eggs…but don’t save it just for breakfast, it makes a cozy brinner as well!
This yummy breakfast mac and cheese is a melange of cheesy pasta and crisp bacon, anchored in the center by a barely set egg.
This is one of those dishes where looking at it through the lens just wasn’t cutting it for me, I needed to dig right in. No time for setting a scene or arranging backdrops and accessories, I left it right there on the oven tray. Heck, I barely got the thing in focus. It’s the stuff foodie dreams are made of, and the stars don’t align like this every day, so I know you’ll excuse me from my artistic duties just this once…and really it’s a win win situation, I get to eat, and you get the recipe for an indulgent variation on mac & cheese. And then you’ll get to eat. I think that’s fair.
what you’ll need for breakfast mac and cheese
Breakfast mac and cheese is a classic macaroni and cheese enriched with bacon and eggs…
- bacon
- elbow pasta
- butter
- flour
- milk
- sharp cheddar cheese
- eggs
- salt and fresh cracked black pepper
breakfast mac & cheese step by step
- Cook your bacon until crisp.
- Make your mac and cheese.
- Divide mac and cheese among 4 oven safe bowls or use individual cast iron skillets like I used.
- Top generously with crumbled bacon.
- Make an indentation in the center of each and crack an egg into the indentation.
- Bake until the egg is barely set.
- Top with ore crumbled bacon and fresh cracked black pepper.
The EASIEST way to cook bacon ~ bake it!
Breakfast mac and cheese starts with a good amount of thick cut bacon and the easiest and neatest way to cook bacon is on a baking sheet in the oven.
- Preheat your oven to 375F.
- Lay the bacon out in a single layer on a baking sheet and cook it until it’s just the way you like it.
- For this recipe you want to get it crisp enough to crumble.
I know you’re going to love this breakfast mac and cheese, that’s not in question, but I do wonder whether you’ll want to eat it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Or maybe a romantic midnight feast. As you know I ate mine the minute it came out of the oven, no idea what time it was.
A big YUM 🙂
more breakfast for dinner and dinner for breakfast recipes
- Breakfast Pasta Carbonara
- Mushroom and Egg Breakfast Pastries
- Breakfast Burritos
- Eggs Benedict Quiche with Hollandaise Sauce
- Kedgeree
- Breakfast for Dinner! The Best Brinner Recipes Ever
Breakfast Mac and Cheese
Equipment
- 4 oven safe bowls or individual skillets
Ingredients
- 6 slices thick cut bacon, cooked and chopped or crumbled. Reserve 3-4 Tbsp of the fat
- 2 cups dry elbow pasta
- 2 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 3 Tbsp flour
- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 cups finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- black pepper
Instructions
- Set oven to 400F
- Cook the pasta in lots of well salted water just to the al dente stage. Drain and toss with the reserved bacon fat.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour. Cook for about a minute, and then slowly pour in the milk, stirring or whisking constantly to combine all the flour into the milk. Continue heating and stirring until the mixture thickens, this will happen just as the milk is getting to the boiling point.
- Take the pan off the heat and add the cheese, a little at a time, stirring to melt.
- Add the cooked pasta and half the bacon crumbles to the sauce, tossing to combine well. Divide the mixture between 4 individual oven safe skillets or bowls.
- Make an indentation in the center of each serving with the back of a large spoon for the egg. Crack an egg into each. Put the bowls on a baking sheet and bake until the eggs are just set, about 17-20 minutes or so, depending on how you like your egg done.
- Grind some fresh black pepper over each bowl, and scatter the rest of the crumbled bacon around the egg just before serving.
I say yes to this wholeheartedly.
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LOVE the idea of a brekky mac n cheese .. I love that you’ve served it in those cute little portions. I would have found it hard to wait to take my photos, too!
I saw the title and HAD to check this out. So glad I did! This would be a massive hit here in our home and I can’t wait to make this one of these weekends. Thanks Sue!
This is such a creative and delicious breakfast! I love it!
-Jamie
Wow! What a dish. And for breakfast! This would be so filling!
Yep — you pretty much wouldn’t have to eat for the rest of the day!
Breakfast mac and cheese? How cool is this???
I hear you — I’m doing extra treadmill time too 🙂
A big yum indeed! Love this creative, beautiful breakfast – it looks and sounds amazing. You deserve to eat it ASAP!
Thanks Tricia — I’ve always been a fan of eating a big meal at breakfast, and this is sure a great way to do it.
I’m sold on any way that I get to incorporate macaroni and cheese for breakfast. This is brilliant!
Here I am trying to lose weight and you come up with this recipe. Heavens, so I guess this means more hours on the treadmill, cause I’m going to make this soon.