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Sicily : 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).
2. Gelato

Try soft and creamy ice cream, zabaglione, semi-freddo , or the solid pezzo duro .
3. Granita

Gelato ’s older cousin, ice is added to flavourings such as jasmine, wild strawberry or almond.
4. Biancomangiare

A snow-white pudding from Arab and Spanish days made with almond milk or cow’s milk and thickened with rice starch.
5. Cannolo

Ricotta cream in a fried pastry tube (see Cassata and Cannoli).
6. Frutta di Martorana

Almond paste sculpted and painted to look like real fruit or other edibles.
7. Biscotti della Regina

Hard biscuits rolled in sesame seeds.
8. Cassateddi

Fried pockets filled with ricotta flavoured with chocolate, lemon or cinnamon, eaten at breakfast time.
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 .
10. ’mpanatigghi

These Modican pastries imported by the Spanish Counts of Modica are empanadas , a pastry crust filled with chocolate, spices and ground beef.