From the small, sun-filled kitchen of her Englewood condo, Allison Scola is ready to share her cannoli-making secrets with more than a dozen eager amateur bakers on Zoom. “You are all going to have an epiphany about homemade cannoli,” she says, leaning into the screen with a wide, encouraging smile. “It’s not as hard as you think—and you can add your own artistic flair!”

Scola should know. As the founder of Experience Sicily, which offers boutique tours of the southern Italian island, as well as the Cannoli Crawl, a Manhattan-based walking food tour, she has sampled some of the world’s best, most authentic cannoli.