Cooking classes
Cannolo experience
5.0
Cooking lesson: learn how to cook Italian recipes with a local Cesarina
Private Experience
Your experience
During this experience you will learn how to make cannoli from scratch: the most classic of Sicilian desserts characterized by a crispy shell lightly flavored with cinnamon filled with enveloping ricotta cream sweetened with sugar and chocolate chips. All with local raw materials! We will start with the dough, and while it rests we will prepare the ricotta cream, then proceed to rolling and forming the cannoli wrapped on traditional river reeds and frying them. As soon as they are cold we will fill them with the ricotta cream and decorate with homemade candied orange peels and pistachio granola. At this point we will end the experience by tasting the freshly prepared cannoli paired with homemade liqueurs such as limoncello or marsala wine.
€145.00 per guest
(€72.50 per child)
Remaining char: 500
Total: €145.00
€145.00
per guest€72.50 per child
Reviews
5.0
201 reviews
- We took a cannoli course with Alice. We were warmly welcomed by her and Francesco. Both are very friendly and personable. Every step of making the cannoli shell and filling was explained to us in detail, and we also received background information. Then we made everything ourselves by hand. When we tasted our results, we felt like we were sitting with friends. The cannoli were delicious. It was a fantastic experience, and we highly recommend the course.
- Super friendly and lots of fun! The food was absolutely incredible, and it’s perfect for both Italian and English speakers.
- fabulous instruction. Extremely thorough and totally hands on from start to finish. Alice was very knowledgeable and well trained. Would highly recommend.
- The class was excellent and our hosts were warm, welcoming and very appreciative to have the opportunity to share their receipts and home. I definitely recommend them for a cooking class. Thank you Alice and Francesco for a wonderful dinner. John
- It was such a pleasure to spend time with Alice and her husband Francesco in their beautiful home learning to make pasta, an appetizer, and dessert. They were so gracious and personable, we had a wonderful time and the food was delicious! We highly recommend this cooking class.
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€145.00 per guest
(€72.50 per child)
Remaining char: 500
Total: €145.00
€145.00 per guest
Where
Alice
Cesarina from 2022Location: Palermo Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, FrenchI was passionate about cooking and food since I was a child, accomplices grandmother who loved to cook and the whole family who loves to eat well. I therefore decided to pursue a university career in the field of gastronomy. I have faced a multidisciplinary and holistic path that has treated the world of food at 360 o'clock. I love cooking for my family and for others, starting from the choice of recipes and the selection of ingredients. I like to experiment and I'm particularly passionate about pastry and leavened foods. I do research on ancient cookbooks and asking around, especially older ladies, their family recipes. Sicily, like all Italy, has an invaluable gastronomic heritage, whose recipes and preparations vary from house to house, not only between cities and provinces. This gives the palate the opportunity to enjoy the same traditional dishes with different ingredients, techniques and stories.
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