For the buffalo sauce, I used sriracha as the base but you could use your favorite hot sauce instead if you’d prefer, but the thickness of the sriracha will help coat the mac n’ cheese balls better. If you don’t have the book or if you want to use another mac n’ cheese recipe, that’s fine as long as it’s made with a 16-ounce package of pasta, so when you use half, it comes to roughly the same amount as my recipe. I love this recipe because the sauce is made thick and creamy with cauliflower and cashews and the cheese sauce alone packs a great, rich flavor. For these balls, I used half of a batch of my Tempeh Bacon Mac n’ Cheese with Pecan Parmesan from “ But I Could Never Go Vegan!” but I left out the tempeh bacon and pecan parmesan so it was just regular mac n’ cheese. This recipe actually moved me to speak in sentences that were 90% composed of curse words. I was surprised when I had the same reaction. I’ve explained before that Chris gets a serious case of potty-mouth when he eats something he really likes so I wasn’t surprised when obscenities starting flying from his mouth like a flock of birds after a gunshot goes off. To provide further evidence of how good this recipe is, let me tell you about mine and Chris’s reactions upon taking our first bites of these absolutely delicious buffalo mac n’ cheese balls. And then you drizzle them with ranch dressing and maybe a little more buffalo sauce because, hey, we’re talking about sriracha buffalo sauce here! I’m trying to convey to you how important these balls are without USING ALL CAPS (because it’s obnoxious). If you’re not already excited about this, you totally should be. We’re talking about balls of mac n’ cheese, covered in a buffalo sauce coating and cooked so that the outside is crispy and the inside is gooey and cheesy. And the the best part: you get to eat them. Take the balls out of the freezer. One by one, dip them in the buffalo sauce, then roll in the bread crumbs. You make a bread crumb coating consisting of bread crumbs and nutritional yeast. You make a simple buffalo sauce from sriracha sauce, white wine vinegar, and a little melted vegan butter. It’s while the balls are freezing that it gets interesting. The next day, you form it in 1/4 cup sized balls and freeze for about 20 minutes.

You make your favorite vegan mac n’ cheese and chill it overnight.

I’m going to get right down to brass tacks about this recipe. You need these Buffalo Mac n’ Cheese Balls in your life.

Vegan fried mac and cheese balls