Cheese puffs

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Cheese puffs or cheezies (in Canada), are a puffed corn snack, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders.

They are an extruded snack, meaning they are cooked, pressurized, and pushed out of a die that forms the particular snack shape. Today, there are extruded corn snacks that are ball-shaped, curly, straight, or irregularly shaped depending on the shape of the die.

"Cheese curls" are shaped into curved shapes.

"Cheese puffs" often refers specifically to the baked, puffed variety. One variant is "cheese balls," such as those made by Frito-Lay under the Cheetos brand or those made in New Zealand by Griffin's Foods.

Elmer's Fine Foods of New Orleans Louisiana first invented this snack food in the early 1950s.^{[citation needed]}

"Cheese puff" is also a name for gougères, a choux pastry with cheese.

[edit] See also

• Puffed grain