Easy Cream Puffs

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup water
• 1/4 tsp. kosher salt
• 4 eggs
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 1/4 cup fresh chives, chopped
• 1/2 cup smoked salmon, shredded
• Green and red leaf lettuce, clean and dry
• sm. sprigs of fresh dill
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 1/4 cup jam of your choice
• Fresh berries
• Powdered sugar

1. Grease a baking sheet or line baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
3. In a small bowl, mix cream cheese, salmon, and chives or cream cheese and jam until thoroughly combined.
4. Set aside.
5. In a sauce pan bring water to a boil.
6. Once water is boiling, add the butter.
7. Once the butter is melted into the water, add flour and salt all at once.
8. Stir vigorously.
9. Cook and stir until mixture forms a ball that doesn't separate.
10. Remove from heat; let cool for 10 minutes.
11. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition until smooth.
12. Either drop batter by tablespoons onto baking sheet, or fill a pastry bag with batter and pipe it onto the sheet in amounts equal in size to a golf ball.
13. Bake at 400 for 30 minutes.
14. Remove from oven.
15. Poke holes in puffs with a toothpick and replace in oven with the heat off for 10 minutes.
16. Remove puffs from the oven, and using a small serrated knife, cut the tops from the puffs like you would a jack-o-lantern.
17. Fill another pastry bag with the cream cheese mixture.
18. Pipe the filling into the puffs until the puffs are a little over full.
19. Replace the top of the puff at an angle on the filling.
20. Place filled puffs on a platter (covered with lettuce leaves if you're making the savory version) and garnish each with a small dill sprig or fresh berries and sifted powdered sugar.

butter, flour, water, kosher salt, eggs, cream cheese, fresh chives, salmon, green, dill, cream cheese, your choice, fresh berries, powdered sugar

Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/21298 (may not work)