The phrase "a cannoli" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a single piece of the Italian pastry known as cannoli.
Example: "For dessert, I decided to treat myself to a cannoli from the local bakery."
Alternatives: "one cannoli" or "a single cannoli".
Sometimes you're in the mood for a cannoli.
The complaining relative became a cannoli test pilot.
A cannoli costs $2.50; apple puff pastry $1.50.
Did I still possess enough language to answer her? "I want a cannoli," I replied.
The Italian desserts, including a ricotta cheesecake and a cannoli, were fresh and delicious.
'Have a cannoli," says Cyndi Lauper, pushing a bakery box across the coffee table.
Opening day festivities include a cannoli-eating contest at 2 p.m. on a stage at the northwest corner of Grand and Mott Streets.
Among the opening day festivities will be a cannoli-eating contest at 2 p.m. Daily feast hours are 11 30 a.m. to 11 p.m., or midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
Among the main events are housemade trenne pasta with a deeply flavored sauce of ground shell steak, Barolo wine, tomato and basil and a cannoli-like codfish cylinder atop a platform of black truffle risotto.
The band Metropolitan Klezmer klezmerizes (sorry) lunchtime listeners outdoors at LentSpace, Canal and Varick Streets. 1 p.m. [Free] A cannoli-eating contest kicks off the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy. 2 p.m. [Free] Want to know how to raise chickens?
Ms. Alexander, vice president of marketing for a bank, presided over the wedding reception party that included 75 guests, upbeat music played by a disc jockey, a prime rib dinner, a cannoli- cream-flavored wedding cake, and everywhere, lots of sunflowers.
