5-Ingredient Cannolis

An fundamental and delicious recipe for 5-Ingredient Cannolis! This vintage Italian dessert is all the time a crowd-pleaser. So if you’ve been seeking a foolproof recipe for cannoli filling, this one’s for you!

Ingredients 8 cannoli shells, home made or shop offered will work 2 cups ricotta cheese 1 cup confectioners' sugar, plus more for dusting 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips, divided 1 and 1/2 teaspoons natural vanilla extract Optional: 2 teaspoons recent orange zest Instructions Place the ricotta cheese correct into a advantageous mesh strainer and area it within the fridge to empty for no less than 12 hours and as much as 24 hours. When you are capable to make the filling: In a enormous bowl combine the tired ricotta cheese, confectioners' sugar, 1/4 cup of the mini chocolate chips, vanilla extract, and orange zest (if using); blend well. Using a spatula, intently scrape the combination into pastry bag geared up with a 1/2 inch open tip. Use at once, or refrigerate till needed; filling might be made as much as 24 hours in advance. When capable to serve, pipe the filling into one cease of cannoli shell, filling shell halfway, then pipe into different end. If you do not have a piping bag, you would possibly spoon the filling into the shells. Repeat with final shells. Place final mini chocolate chips on a small plate. Dip every cease of the cannoli into the chocolate chips, then frivolously filth with confectioner's sugar. Serve at once. Notes The filling would possibly be made and kept within the fridge for as much as 24 hours. Once the cannoli shells had been filling, serve them proper away. Cannolis are finest eaten the day they're made

I awoke the different day and discovered anything terrible… I’ve by no means shared with you my mega fundamental recipe for 5-Ingredient Cannolis with you! So many recipes… so little time! But I truly needed to squeeze this one in earlier than the holidays. So I dropped everything, walked to the retailer (I don’t drive… did you recognise that?), grabbed my ingredients, and got busy. Lucky for us, this awesome recipe is sneaky simple. I’m speaking 15 minutes of lively work simple.

So, we could cannoli? I promise making do-it-yourself cannoli is so a lot simpler than you assume 🙂


What is a Cannoli?
A Cannoli is a variety of pastry that originated at the Island of Sicily. Most cannoli consist of tube-shaped shells of deep fried pastry dough which are then crammed with a fairly candy and creamy filling, that’s typically produced from ricotta cheese.

Every time I make this recipe I get somewhat nostalgic. My grandmother taught me the right way to make cannoli many moons ago and the reminiscence is one among my favorites. I ought to confess my gran made her cannoli shells from scratch (and man had been they good), but most days I simply don’t have time for that so I purchase them from our native pastry retailer or the grocery store. One day I’ll get it collectively and publish her cannoli shell recipe too, but for now, truly experience unfastened to make use of retailer offered shells or make your personal utilizing your favourite recipe.