cannoli

If you can fit in a dessert, try the almond parfait or a creamy cannolo.

Anyone who is able to continue can finish with a ricotta-filled cannolo - the Sicilian dessert par excellence.

The cannoli o cannolo, Sicilian sweet speciality in the shape of a tube, is highly recommended.

There also were few complaints about a cannolo ($3.50), with an assertive, creamy filling, or for that matter about Zucca itself.

Ġużeppi Marija Cannolo), on the initiative of the Bible Society in Malta.

Sweets are another specialty; examples include: frutta martorana, pignolata, buccellato, cannolo siciliano, granita, and cassata siciliana.

Cannolo di ricotta is a silky ricotta dumpling, minus the usual tube of pastry, in a sauce of sweetened wine must.

The singular is cannolo (or in the Sicilian language cannolu), meaning "little tube", with the etymology stemming from the Latin "canna", or reed.

Cannoli (singular: cannolo), a tube-shaped shell of fried pastry dough filled with a sweet filling usually containing ricotta cheese, is in particular strongly associated with Sicily worldwide.

In Godfather III, the character Don Altobello played by Eli Wallach is killed by eating a poisoned cannolo while attending the opera.

Similarly, in a scene in the film, Death Wish V: The Face of Death, a man is also killed by eating a poisoned cannolo, courtesy of Charles Bronson's character, Paul Kersey.

For dessert, Sicily wouldn't be Sicily without a cannolo (a wafer tube filled with sweet ricotta cheese) or a slice of cassata (a sponge cake filled with almond paste, chocolate cream, candied fruit and a pistachio icing).