Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham)

• 1 cup water
• 1 stick butter, unsalted
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup all purpose flour, sifted
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup finely grated cheese, like sharp cheddar or gruyere
• 1/2 cup grated parmesan
• 1 pinch cayenne pepper
• 1 pinch black pepper
• 1/2 8oz tub cream cheese
• 1/4 cup soured cream
• 1 cup chopped cooked ham or gammon
• 1 tsp low salt vegetable bullion powder (I used Marigold brand)
• 1/4 tsp English mustard powder
• 1 dash white pepper

1. Whiz all the filling ingredients in a food processor until very smooth
2. Put filling mixture in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least an hour until you need it.
3. The longer you chill it, the firmer and easier to pipe it will be.
4. Heat the oven to 375F/190C
5. Line two baking trays with baking paper.
6. Put the water, butter and salt in a saucepan, turn on the heat underneath and bring to a boil, melting the butter.
7. When boiling, take the pan off the heat and immediately add all the flour, stirring really well until the mixtute comes away from the sides
8. Add one egg, mix in real well, then repeat for each egg
9. Put the mixture in a mixing bowl, add the other ingredients and stir well again.
10. Put mixture into a piping bag (I used a clean square plastic bag, cut into a triangle, bottom corner to top corner diagonally, with one corner cut) and pipe desired number of gougeres evenly spaced on the baking sheets.
11. Bake at 375F/190C for 10 minutes, then drop the temperature to 350F/180C for a further 15-20 minutes
12. Remove to cooling racks and allow to cool
13. To fill, either make holes and pipe the ham mixture in, or split them and spoon it in.

water, butter, salt, flour, eggs, grated cheese, parmesan, cayenne pepper, black pepper, cream cheese, soured cream, gammon, salt, mustard powder, white pepper

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/341892-gougeres-cheese-puffs-with-ham (may not work)