What is this sweet called?

[alpacinou]

Hello.

Is there a specific name in English for this kind of sweet in English?

https://shirinisaray.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/pastry1.jpg

In my language,they are called cream bread.

 

[emsr2d2]

That looks like some kind of cream-filled choux bun. In a shop, it might be called a "Cream choux bun".

 

[Phaedrus]

If I needed to refer to that confection, I'd probably call it a "cream puff."

 

[GoesStation]

Generically I'd call it a pastry. It resembles something we call a cream puff, but in the United States we usually borrow the foreign name of foodstuffs when we borrow the recipe. A fairly recent entry on fancy American pastry-shop shelves is the Kouign-amann, a delicious confection from Brittany, France. We may struggle to pronounce it but we don't change its name.

What do you call that pastry in Persian?

 

[alpacinou]

What do you call that pastry in Persian?

Are you looking for the Persian term? We say "shirini" which translates to sweet or confectionery.

 

[emsr2d2]

Are you looking for the Persian term? We say "shirini" which translates to sweet or confectionery.

But isn't that the generic term for all sorts of sweet things? Surely each different cake, bun, pastry etc has its own individual name. Otherwise, how do you tell it apart from other types?
When GS said "What do you call that pastry in Persian?", he was referring specifically to the one in the photo you posted.

 

[alpacinou]

But isn't that the generic term for all sorts of sweet things? Surely each different cake, bun, pastry etc has its own individual name. Otherwise, how do you tell it apart from other types?
When GS said "What do you call that pastry in Persian?", he was referring specifically to the one in the photo you posted.

Oh, my bad. I didn't see "that".

As I said in the first post, we call it "cream bread" or in Persian "noon khameyi".

 

[GoesStation]

Oh, my bad. I didn't see "that".

As I said in the first post, we call it … "noon khameyi".

Then that's what I'd call it in English, after describing what it is, of course.