"Pandora" > wrote in message
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> Oh! I understand! I will study to make a shell without sugar and fat for
> you.
> For example: if you could make the shell with the pizza dough or eggs
> pasta dough (the one you use to make tagliatelle) and then fried? Could
> you eat it? Then you could fill them with ricotta jelly fruit (this last
> in place of pieces of chocolate)
> Cheers
> Pandora
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Pandora, that's so nice of you to try to solve the shell problem. I don't
think pizza dough would work, as that's high in carbohydrates because of the
flour; it's the same with egg pasta. I wonder if phyllo dough might be an
option, as one sheet is very low in carbohydrates. Phyllo is so delicate,
though, and I can't imagine how to fill a phyllo shell with ricotta without
the shell crumbling to pieces. I just may have to experiment with miniature
phyllo appetizer shells - they just might work!

Probably the solution would be, as another poster suggested, to eat just
half of the shell and enjoy the filling (if it is made without sugar and
with low-fat or fat-free ricotta). I think if the filling tastes delicious
then I would not miss the shell at all!

Or...I could enjoy a real cannoli for dessert if I planned the rest of my
meal very carefully. This would be a very rare treat, of course, but one
worth waiting for!

Karen