noun
- a tube-shaped Italian pastry shell filled with sweet ricotta cheese and often containing chocolate chips or candied fruit
Usage: Italian cuisine
Examples
- The bakery’s cannoli were filled with fresh ricotta and dusted with powdered sugar.
- She ordered three cannoli for dessert at the Italian restaurant.
- The traditional Sicilian cannoli had pistachios sprinkled on the ends.
- He learned to make cannoli shells from his grandmother’s recipe.
- The cannoli filling was sweetened with vanilla and orange zest.
- They served mini cannoli at the wedding reception.