I like to refer to this Cheddar Cheese Sauce as “syrup” because once you try it you will want to use it like syrup. And I do use it as syrup on my Chicken and Mac n’ Cheese Waffles. At its heart it is a simple cheese sauce that you could use for dipping pretzels, making Cheez-It Mac n’ Cheese, or throw some salsa in it and make it nacho cheese for dipping tortilla chips in.
I also used the cooled sauce like Cheez-Whiz to make Broccoli Cheddar Rice Casserole! If you add a little more cheese to it you can thicken it up some more to make Homemade Velveeta that is preservative-free! Use the Velveeta alternative to make Joanna Gaines 1919 Pimento Cheese.
How to make Cheddar Syrup
One of the biggest keys, besides getting TOP QUALITY cheddar (Tillamook of course), is using a high-speed blender to make the sauce. You just can’t get the same quality of smoothness without using a blender.
Now there are many options for blenders out there, and any blender should work just fine, but you know I love my Vitamix because the high speed also heats and keeps my sauce hot and free-flowing while I blend it.
I have this renewed one, and you’d never know it wasn’t brand new, and it is still a workhorse, even after years of abuse.
Any way, back to the sauce…
Look at that beautiful sauce perfectly smooth in the blender. Go ahead, scroll back and look at it! It is a work of art!
Your next purchase for this sauce has to be THE BEST cheddar cheese you can get you hands on. I lived in the Pacific Northwest for a while and I LOVE Tillamook cheeses. EVERYTHING they make is TOP quality, and it is making its way across the country and becoming more and more available everywhere these days.
This one is for the Velveeta Haters!
If you have read any of my Magnolia Table Cookbook recipe reviews that call for Velveeta cheese, you will know that I am not a fan of the overly processed shelf-stable cheese. If you add about 4 more ounces of cheese to this sauce and let it cool in the fridge you could have a “Homemade Velveeta” that could be used in those recipes.
Use this in a swap of Joanna Gaines “1919 Pimento Cheese”, and it would be a great sub for her “Party Queso”.
Where to use this Sauce!
This sauce is THE KEY to making my Chicken & Mac n’ Cheese Waffles a success, and they are so worth the work and clean up!
And it is the base for my Cheez-It Mac n’ Cheese, and it is OUT OF THIS WORLD!
If you make it thicker like noted above and use it as a Homemade Velveeta Alternative use it in Joanna Gaines 1919 Pimento Cheese Recipe.
Cheddar Syrup
Equipment
- High-Speed Blender
- or
- Immersion Blender
Ingredients
- 4 T Unsalted Butter
- 2 T All-Purpose Flour
- 2 1/2 C Whole Milk
- Dash hot sauce
- 3/4 t Kosher Salt
- 1.5 pounds Sharp Cheddar Cheese grated and 1/4 pound or about 2 cups reserved for topping
Instructions
- In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Then add the flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 2-3 minutes, forming a roux.
- Add in the milk and whisk until it comes to a boil and thickens slightly. Place the warm milk mixture into a blender and add in the hot sauce, salt, and cheese, blend starting on low, and working up to high, until the cheese is completely worked in. Let the blender run for 1.5-2 minutes to emulsify the sauce.
Notes
*Use the amount of sauce for a pound of pasta.
*If you want to use as a dipping sauce, cut in half, or don’t and have leftovers.
*The blender is the key ingredient here, it is NEEDED, you could use an immersion blender IN the pot also.
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