ricotta cheese

Cannoli are a typical Sicilian dessert. There is no Italian who does not know this delicious crunchy cannoli filled with a mixture of ricotta, sugar and depending on the variations we can also find candied orange, sometimes chocolate, or chopped pistachio. River reeds were originally used to give shape to this sweet, from which it takes its name. Today a metal cylinder is used. Of probable Saracen origin, cannoli were prepared during the Carnival period to celebrate the richness, colors and abundance of a land rich in traditions and resources such as Sicily. Today it is now known all over the world and is also prepared outside of Sicily and the versions in which it is offered are numerous (not all of them good…. ;))