I used to be your little cream puff; But these days I just feel like a medium-sized cabbage.
By way of explanation: chou, choux m. - cabbage; mon petit chou - my little cabbage, my sweetheart, darling; pรขte ร choux - puff pastry (named for the dough's resemblance to a small cabbage); chou ร la crรจme - cream puff