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They can be both sweet and savory. They are similar to a semi-lunar big fritter.
The covering consists of a crunchy sheet of pasta dough, yellow and smooth (thanks to the brushed egg yolk), and the filling varies: it can be based on ricotta, eggs, sugar, pecorino, or enriched with cocoa (it is not a recent invention: chocolate cacioni were already produced fifty years ago).