Whipped Cream Puffs

Ptysie are cream puffs made from choux pastry and usually filled with whipped cream, though occasionally with meringue. Choux is French for cabbage, a vegetable that bears a not dissimilar appearance to a choux puff. Adorably, the French term of endearment, petit choux, means little cabbage. The Polish name for cream puffs is ptysie. It’s pronounced pa-teeshee-ye, a derivative of the earlier Polish name of this pastry, pti-szu. Pti-szu. Ptysi