Cannoli are a Sicilian pastry dessert consisting of a fried pastry tube filled with a sweet creamy filling such as ricotta or custard. This year’s Corica’s cannoli were half filled with vanilla custard, half with chocolate custard. You could see the team’s eyes light up at the sight and sweet smell of these yummy things!

I love cannoli, not just for their delicious taste, but also for their wonderful textures – the crispy fried pastry shell and the soft, smooth, creamy custard. B stored the box of cannoli in the fridge when she got to work, so there was an added pleasure: cold custard – I love custard cold when it’s perfectly smooth and creamy. It’s the same kind of pleasure I get eating any cold creamy dessert – tiramisu, banana pudding or even ice cream.

The chocolate custard looked nicely dark brown, a rich chocolatey custard. When I look at that custard, I am so tempted to stick my finger into it!

It’s always hard to decide which filling I enjoy most – vanilla custard?

Or chocolate custard? This year, I think the vanilla won! But they were both wonderful. We finished morning tea with tell-tale cannoli icing sugar trails on our clothes and faces.