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> "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!
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> 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!

I don't think that fillo will crush! Pasta fillo is a good idea! Then you
need the iron tubes for frying cannoli. You put around tubes the dough and
then fry or put in oven. Have you got them?
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu..._x_cannoli.jpg

> 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!

I hope you will be able to eat them
Cheers
pandora
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> Karen
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