Two Bite Smoked Cheddar Eclairs

Instructions

1. Step
   Preheat oven to 375
2. Step
   In a pot on medium high heat, add water, butter, sugar, and salt and gently simmer.
3. Step
   Slowly mix in bread flour until a dough begins to form. Keep mixing until the flour is well incorporated and the pot is clean.
4. Step
   Transfer the dough into a stand mixer with a paddle attachment. Mix on low to allow the mixture to cool. Slowly beat one egg at a time into the dough until fully incorporated. Repeat for the rest of the eggs.
5. Step
   Carefully put the dough into a piping bag. Pipe 2 inch logs on a prepared baking sheet
6. Step
   Bake the eclairs for 20 minutes.
7. Step
   While waiting for the eclairs to bake, make the filling. In a bowl, add cheese spread or cream cheese, cream, garlic powder, cayenne, thyme and pepper. Beat with a hand mixer until light and airy. Add the mixture to a piping bag.
8. Step
   Remove the eclairs from the oven and poke one end with a toothpick. Top each eclair with shredded gouda. Bake again until the cheese is melted.
9. Step
   Remove the eclairs from the oven and punch a small hole under each eclair and let cool. Fill each eclair with the cheese mixture using the piping bag.
10. Step
    Once all eclairs are filled, begin piping small dollops of the cheese mixture on each eclair. Add 2-3 pieces of microgreens and 1-2 radish spheres on each eclair. Serve immediately