Cheese Puffs

By annekeeney

Ingredients

• 1 lb. puff shell pastry
• 1 c. grated gruyere cheese, freshly grated
• 1/4 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
• freshly groung white pepper

Preparation

Step 1

Prepare the pastry dough. While it is still hot, vigorously beat in the cheese, nutmeg and pepper to taste with a rubber spatula.

Preheat an oven to 450. Spoon the dough into a pastry bag fitted with a plain tip 5/8" in diameter. Pipe small rounds about 1 1/2" in diameter onto a nonstick baking sheet at about 2" intervals. Alternatively, pipe the mixture into muffin tin wells.

Transfer the baking sheet to the oven and bake until the pastry is puffed and golden, 15-20 minutes. If serving at room temperature, cool on wire racks.