wrote:

> Thanks, everyone. Here's the recipe we were planning to make:
> http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/re...ws/views/11512

This has virtually nothing in common with traditional cannoli, from the
ingredients in and techniques for cooking the shells, to the over-rich
filling, to the ridiculous multi-ingredient "garnishing." It's typical
overblown, nifty-restaurant "improvement" on an already-developed
confection. All semblance of the simplicity and harmony of cannoli is
utterly destroyed. Call it something else.

Instead of "cannoli," maybe "Preparation C."

It's like making something with durian, steamed birdseed and gelatin
sheets and calling it maki sushi. It sure is an "improvement" on the
original, huh...?

Note that the web site had the good grace to put "cannoli" in quotes.
Like "honest" used car salesman.

Pastorio