Top 10 Top 10 Desserts
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1. Cassata
Layers of sponge cake and ricotta cream covered with colourful marzipan and candied fruits (see Cassata and Cannoli).
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2. Gelato
Try soft and creamy ice cream, zabaglione, semi-freddo , or the solid pezzo duro .
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3. Granita
Gelato ’s older cousin, ice is added to flavourings such as jasmine, wild strawberry or almond.
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4. Biancomangiare
A snow-white pudding from Arab and Spanish days made with almond milk or cow’s milk and thickened with rice starch.
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5. Cannolo
Ricotta cream in a fried pastry tube (see Cassata and Cannoli).
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6. Frutta di Martorana
Almond paste sculpted and painted to look like real fruit or other edibles.
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7. Biscotti della Regina
Hard biscuits rolled in sesame seeds.
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8. Cassateddi
Fried pockets filled with ricotta flavoured with chocolate, lemon or cinnamon, eaten at breakfast time.
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9. Coseduce or Cuccidati
Traditional fig-filled biscuits that exist under various names in every part of the island. Elaborate versions are made for St Joseph’s Day (see San Giuseppe, Belice Valley) and called squartucciati .
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10. ’mpanatigghi
These Modican pastries imported by the Spanish Counts of Modica are empanadas , a pastry crust filled with chocolate, spices and ground beef.
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