Italian dessert of deep fried pasta shells filled with a sweet ricotta cheese mixture.
A Sicilian specialty, named for its pipelike shape and intended as a treat at Carnevale, cannoli spread through Italy and were eventually a fixture in almost every pastry shop. The elaborately flavored dough is rolled and shaped around a metal cylinder, then deep fried. When cool the crisp cookie-like tubes are filled with a sweetened ricotta mixture enriched with candied fruits and small bits of chocolate. The origins of cannoli, also called Turkish hats, can be traced back to the Saracens or even to pre-Christian times.
kan-OH-lee] An Italian dessert consisting of tubular or horn-shaped pastry shells that have been deep-fried, then filled with a sweetened filling of whipped ricotta (and often whipped cream) mixed with bits of chocolate, candied citron and sometimes nuts.
a crisp hand-rolled pastry shell filled with an exquisite thick cream made of ricotta cheese, miniature chocolate chips and finely diced candied fruit
a type of Italian pastry, with a cream filling
A Sicilian pastry consisting of a deep-fried dough tube and traditionally filled with sweetened ricotta and candied fruits and peel.
A Sicilian specialty pastry named for its cannon-like shape. This elaborately flavored dough is rolled and shaped around a metal cylinder, then deep fried. When cooled, the crisp cookie-like tubes are filled with a sweetened ricotta mixture, pastry whipped cream, or sugary almond pistachio paste, and enriched with candied fruits or small bits of chocolate.
"pipes" crisp fried pastry tubes, filled with sweetened ricotta or pastry cream. In Sicily, sheep milk ricotta is traditionally used and it is often flavored with orange flower water, cinnamon, candied fruit, pistachios and chocolate bits.
A crisp pastry tube filled with sweetened ricotta cheese, chocolate chips, and candied fruit. Cinnamon and vanilla are common flavorings for this cheese mixture.
Cannoli are Italian pastry desserts. The singular is cannolo, meaning “little tubeâ€, with the etymology stemming from the Latin "canna", or reed. Cannoli originated in Sicily and are an essential part of Sicilian cuisine.
