Gouda Cheese with Black Pepper and Rosemary Popovers

Cheesy Popovers are perfect for anytime…

…Irresistible… I dare you to only eat one.

Ingredients:

1 cup whole milk, heated
2 large eggs at room temperature
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3/4 cup Gouda cheese, grated (plus more to stuff the popovers)
1 tablespoon fresh Rosemary

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450F Degrees.
Use either butter or oil to generously grease the muffin or popover baking pans.
In a medium saucepan, heat the milk until you see tiny bubbles on the edges of the pan and pour heated milk in heatproof bowl.
With whisk attachment on standing mixer, on medium speed, whisk milk to allow it to cool down a little bit before adding eggs (so it doesn’t cook the eggs).
In a small bowl, use a fork to beat the eggs and then add to the milk mixture.
Whisk the ingredients together for approximately two minutes.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt and black pepper.
Add the dry ingredients all at once to the wet ingredients in the mixer.
Continue to mix until the ingredients are fully combined with little to no lumps left in the batter. The consistency of the batter will be thin.
Mix 1/2 cup Gouda cheese into batter.
Place the muffin or popover baking pans in the oven for 1 minute to heat up (make sure the butter or oil used to grease the pan does not start to brown).
Evenly divide the batter and sprinkle each one with Gouda cheese and Rosemary.
Place baking pan back into the oven.
Bake for 15 minutes at 450F Degrees.
Lower the oven temperature to 350F Degrees and continue to bake for another 15 minutes (do not open the oven at any point in time) and remove from oven afterwards.
After the popovers are removed from the oven, remove them as soon as possible from the baking pans and place on a wire cooling rack.
Using a small knife, poke a hole on the bottom of each popover to release the hot air. This will help ensure that the popover does not deflate after it cools down.
Cut the top half way and stuff with grated Gouda cheese