Meanings
comparative more cannolilike · superlative most cannolilike
- Resembling cannoli.
The tourists had slices of gjetost, a caramel-colored cheese, and krumkaker, a cannolilike pastry roll filled with lingonberry jam and whipped cream.
2009 May 15, Joseph Berger, “Changing Tastes, From Lingonberry to Baba Ghanouj”, in The New York Times2 more examples
Among many masa dishes is a cannolilike dessert: Masa is molded around a tube, deep-fried, cooled, sugar dusted, then filled with pumpkin seed mousse and tipped with finely minced fresh mint.
1992, Food Arts, volume 5, page 246Crushed ginger snaps were rolled into a cannolilike shape and filled with whipped cream, strawberries and kiwifruit, more of which were arranged on the plate.
1997 March 14, Pat Bruno, “Cooking school cuisine // Hospitality eatery passes pop quiz”, in Chicago Sun-Times
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