Description
Make your own classic Italian confection with this recipe filling prepared cannoli pasty shells with a mixture of chocolate chips and ricotta cheese.
Ingredients
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 pint part-skim ricotta cheese
- ½ cup blanched slivered almonds
- ⅓ cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon amaretto liqueur
- 12 cannoli shells
- 1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 12 maraschino cherries
Instructions
- In a large bowl
- stir ricotta cheese with 1 cup confectioners sugar until combined. Add almonds
- chocolate chips and almond liqueur.
- Carefully spoon into cannoli shells (or pipe from a pastry bag)
- filling from the center out.
- Sprinkle individual serving plates with powdered sugar and cocoa
- or sprinkle on cannoli. Garnish plates with cherries.
Servings: 12