Cheese Puffs

From delish.com

Very good and easy to make.  Bready and cheesy.  More bready than a Brazilian cheese puff.

Eric said it was too peppery, so add less next time or none.

Cook to eat with Italian dinner.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup water

4 Tbsp butter

1/2 tsp Kosher salt

1/2 tsp granulated sugar

1 tsp freshly ground white pepper (optional)

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

2 large eggs

1/2 cup freshly grated Gruyere, plus more for topping

Direction

1. Preheat oven to 400 deg and line a baking sheet with parchment paper

2. In a medium saucepan, combine water, butter, salt, sugar, and white pepper and bring to a boil.  Add the flour all at once and stir with a wooden spoon until a smooth dough forms.  Continue to cook until dough pulls away from the pan and forms a ball, and a film develops on the bottom of the pot, about 2 minutes

3. Transfer dough to a bowl and continue to mix with a wooden spoon to cool slightly, 1 minute.  Beat eggs, one at a time, mixing until smooth and fully incorporated after each addition.

4. Fold in gruyere

5. Transfer batter to a piping bag or use a small (2 tsp capacity) cookie scoop to create small, inch-wide mounds on prepared baking sheet (needs to be all same size), about an inch apart.  Top with more gruyere and bake until puffed and golden, 20-25 min