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Chocolate Dipped Cannoli

2/14/2016

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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
What kind of delicious sweet does a girl who bakes cakes and cupcakes for a living - bake for to her sweet Valentines? 

My family has to navigate through a sea of cupcakes in the kitchen on a daily basis and to be honest, i think that are about as tired of cupcakes as I am.  I really don't think they want to see another cupcakes on the counter for Valentine's Day so I had to come up with another sweet treat for my Valentines. 

I decided to go back to my Northern roots and make a batch of cannolis for Valentine's Day.  (Not sure why I don't see many cannolis in Georgia but they seem to be a rare find in this state.)  Taking on homemade cannolis - in a addition to the big meal that I wanted to fix for my family seemed like too much to tackle in one day so I decided to cheat - just a little. 
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I bought some mini cannoli shells at my local supermarket.  I figured I would perfect the cannoli filling before I ever tried to tackle the art of home made cannoli shells.
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Cannoli filling has just a few simple ingredients but getting it just "right" can be tricky. I figured out a couple of tips to getting creamy and delicious cannoli filling and I'll share them with you today - consider it my Valentines Day gift to all of you.  
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Chocolate Dipped Cannoli
12 mini cannoli shells
1/4 melted dark chocolate
15 ounces ricotta cheese
4 ounces marsarpone cheese
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

Dip the ends of cannoli  shells in dark chocolate.  Allow to set.
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Place cheesecloth lined strainer over a bowl and spoon ricotta into strainer. 
Put something heavy on the top to drain out excess moisture from ricotta.  Let sit in refrigerator 1-8 hours.
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Stir together drained ricotta and marscarpone cheese with a rubber scraper.
Fold in powdered sugar and chocolate chips.
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Fill dipped cannoli shells with filling and chill.
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Decorate the ends of the cannolis with chocolate chips.
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Cannolis were the perfect sweet treat for this bakers family.  Ben and I LOVED them and Courtney is still deciding.  Take my word for it - these are amazing.  Now I can work on my cannoli shell skills. 

Ciao!
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Cathy S. link
11/22/2017 04:37:56 pm

Around the holidays, for as long as I can remember, my family would make hand made cannoli shells. My Mom would make the dough with red wine, my Dad would deep fry them and I would roll out the dough, cut, & seal the dough on bamboo cyclinders with egg whites. We would make something like 10 or 12 dozen.
This is NOT a task I recommend doing solo as I've done that and it is too challenging for 1 person. You need to have at least 1 other person who can watch the fryer.Then we make my grandmothers bavarian cream cannoli filling which I LOVE! Stuff shells with cream and dip ends in shaved dark chocolate. One of the best parts of my italian heritage is that we would drink the rest of the red wine as we made the shells. Now I look for chocolate dipped cannoli shells ....still have my grandmothers original recipe! Great holiday memory!

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Amy link
11/22/2017 06:32:02 pm

The memories of my family working together in the kitchen are the sweetest. I love the recipes that requires more than one set of hands to prepare. Quality time in the kitchen = lasting memories.

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