Gougères for Book Club Dinner
Parmesan Cheese Gougères This week our book club got together for the final meeting of the year. We went to a friend's house and she said beforehand that she wanted to make dessert. I usually bring dessert, so I decided to find an appetizer I could bake. Not sure how, but I thought of Gougères . I'm glad I did! They're a favorite of my sister's so maybe I was channeling her. The Gougères recipe is very simple: Pâte à Choux with added cheese, piped into small rounds and baked. But it's also very exacting! I've made Pâte à Choux many times before, using Sally's Bake Blog's recipe. Here is that recipe. But I couldn't find the gougères recipe I've used before in my baking binder, so I started taking a look at other websites. I decided to combine Brown Eyed Baker's recipe and King Arthur Baking's recipe, using Parmesan cheese since that's what I had at hand. But when I started cooking the dough, it wasn't coming together int...