/can'noli/
Noun - m. plural. Singular. 'cannolo'
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| (image courtesy of wikipedia, because I ate it before I could take a photo again...) |
Cannoli are tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet creamy filling made with ricotta whipped with icing sugar until it's sweet and smooth. The pastry tastes a little bit like the cornetto icecream cones (the thick squared ones) and the one I tried had a milk chocolate coating on the inside.
They are loooovely, albeit quite filling and it feels weird knowing you're eating ricotta cheese but it just tastes like sweetened cake cream...
They originally come from Sicily, where they are sometimes called cannolu, which means 'little tube'. They can also range in size; from a cannulicchi which is no bigger than a finger, to the fist-sized portions typically found south of Palermo (and also the one I had.. heheh).
They're also often garnished with something, like some candied orange peel, a glacee cherry or some chocolate chips. Mmm mmm...
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