Ciarduna is a type of Italian pastry.

Ciarduna siciliana is a traditional sweet pastry from the province of Agrigento, Sicily (Italy). It consists of an almond cookie shell filled with a ricotta filling.

Traditional ingredients

• flour
• sugar
• Strutto
• vanilla
• active yeast
• Ammonia Baking Powder (ammonium bicarbonate)
• Homogenized milk
• crushed almonds
• Cinnamon
• icing sugar (when decorating the tops of the ciarduna's)