Cannoli Recipe

Homemade Italian Cannoli

For the Filling:

2 tblspn caramel syrup

1 cup powdered sugar

2 lbs ricotta cheese

6 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips

(For variation can also add some pine nuts along with choc chips or in replacement of… and can also add the zest of half an orange)

For the crust:

2 cups flour

4 tblspn white sugar

2 tblspn cinnamon

7 tblspn marsala wine

2 tblspn ice cold water

4 tblspn room temp butter

dash of salt

Work butter into flour and cinnamon sugar mixture. Add dash of salt. Add wine and water to create dough. Wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 min. Now you can make the filling…add all ingredients together and place in zip lock bag. Place filling into the fridge.

Take dough out of fridge and roll out the dough. Use biscuit cutter to cut circles out of the dough. Make these circles into elongated ovals. Wrap oval pieces around cannoli molds. (Cannoli molds are metal cylinders…you must have these tools)

Try to overlap the dough on the top of the cylinder to close it off. Bring oil to temp of 350 degrees and fry the cannoli dough on the cylinder. This will take about 1 minute per side. Drain oil and remove cannoli shell from cylinder as soon as it has cooled. Then when you are ready to eat them, fill each tube with cannoli filling, dust with powdered sugar and manga!