Cannoli are a pastry consisting of a tube-shaped shell of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet, creamy filling containing ricotta—a staple of Sicilian cuisine. They range in size from 9 to 20 centimetres. In mainland Italy, they are commonly known as cannoli siciliani.
Cannoli
Cannoli topped with chopped pistachios, candied fruit and chocolate chips sprinkled with confectioners' sugar
A chocolate chip cannoli (left) and cookies & cream cannoli (right)
Sicilian is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands.
It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group.
A sign in Sicilian at Santo Stefano di Camastra, Messina
Minchia: graffiti in Turin, January 2017