# @insiderfood on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=AhD3OHxRU84
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65669203-insiderfood-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-08T13:00:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Insider Food (@insiderfood) — https://gondola.cc/insiderfood

## Caption

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Fortunato Brothers Bakery has been hand-making cannolis, cookies, and sfogliatelle in Brooklyn since 1976, using the same recipes the founders brought from Naples. On a busy day, the team produces up to 7,500 cannolis or 9,000 cookies, all while sticking to old-school techniques that haven’t changed in decades.

Between $90,000 annual insurance policies, $70,000 ovens breaking, and ingredient costs that swing without warning, keeping a 50-year-old bakery alive in New York is a daily fight. But second-generation owner Biagio Fortunato is determined to keep things running for the next generation.

00:00 - Intro
00:48 - Cannoli Dough
02:06 - Folding Cannolis
02:55 - Frying Cannolis
03:52 - Filling Cannolis
04:37 - Sfogliatelle
05:58 - Cookies
07:02 - Rainbow Cookie
07:24 - Challenges of the Business
08:43 - Born into the Business
09:14 - Working with Family
10:05 - Credits

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Making 300,000 Cannolis A Year By Hand | Small Business | Insider Food

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## Tags

italiandessert, familybusiness, cannoli, smallbusiness

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