Chocolate Cannoli

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• recipe Chocolate Cannoli
  Cyrette Sacramento, CA 09-03-2009

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  Unsalted Pistachios at Trader Joe's

  Rated: 5 stars out of 5

  Trader Joe's is a great place to find the unsalted pistachios. The can be purchased roasted, unsalted, and without shells... for a reasonable price.Read more

• recipe Chocolate Cannoli
  lisa corrigan, TX 08-26-2009

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  cannoli shells

  Rated: 5 stars out of 5

  Love this one-- I always just used ricotta and powdered sugar-but the cream made a difference-very good. One reviewer posted... she couldn't find cannoli shells-I also live in a small town and no one has them anywhere. So I just surfed the net and found many recipies for them. They are fun to make-and very good-I bought the cannoli tubes from e-bay. Some say you can cut a broom stick and use that but personally I would be afraid to do that now days-you never know what chemicals might be in the wood. And also I was using a fork for a few years to turn the cannoli--what a difference a simple pair of tongs makes. Also, I don't follow a specific recipe anymore-just about a cup of all pur. flour-dash salt,maybe a third cup of sugar, and half a stick of salted butter-at room temp. Just sift together with your fingers working the butter in then add enough red wine-or cold water- until it comes together, Kind of like a pie dough crust.. After you've made them a few times-you'll know exactly what consistancy you're looking for. Roll them around the cannoli tube-seal ends together ,using just a bit of water if necessary to make ends stick together-and cook in hot oil until brown. Also after you've made them a while you wont have to use the water to hold ends together because you'll know how much liquid to put in recipe so it wont be too wet or too dry. Also I put in cocoa and sometimes cinnamon in the dry ingredients. I don't roll out the whole thing at once and cut them out like I've seen some shows do-but instead I pull about a walnut size piece of dough from bowl and roll out one at a time-this way is just easier for me. Hope all this helps and I didn't leave out anything-but try making them and you'll love doing it. Read more

• recipe Chocolate Cannoli
  Janita Scott, AR 04-09-2009

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  The Filling is So Yummy!!

  Rated: 5 stars out of 5

  I loved the filling in this recipe, and especially with the homemade ricotta recipe that some of the reviewers have presented... here. However, I could not find the cannoli shells in the market, and the bakery shops in town had no idea how to make them (I live in a small, rural town in Arkansas...these types of things are hard to come by). I used a flat pastry shell instead of the curved cannoli shell. I was wondering if anyone here would know if I could use the large egg roll sheets and make my own shells? Would it taste the same as a cannoli shell? Any ideas as to how I could do this?Read more

• recipe Chocolate Cannoli
  Jessica Tarzana, CA 12-26-2008

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  Easy and impressive

  Rated: 5 stars out of 5

  Putting these together were so easy, and my guests were very impressed with the final product. I agree with the reviewer... that the pre-made shells were hard to find, and the ones I bought were definitely the worst part of my final product. Next time I'm going to ask the local bakery if they can sell me fresh shells, rather than buying boxed ones that were too thick and lacked flavor. But, unimaginably easy for something that looks and tastes fantastic! Read more

• recipe Chocolate Cannoli
  Anonymous 09-15-2008

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  Thanks for the Recipes!!!

  Rated: 5 stars out of 5

  Love the Cannolli recipe but for disappointed... you did not have the whole ricotta cheese recipe. I saw someone else said... try Napastyle address but I think the ricotta receipe called for 2 Qt. milk, 2 cups cream 2 teaspoons sugar, 1 teasp. salt whisk over heat toboil and turn off heat and add zest and juice of 8 lemons. stir and cool and it will separate. Wring out in cheese cloth and laddle warm curd mixtue to drain 5 or 6 mins. and set in a bowl . Hope this helps.Read more

• recipe Chocolate Cannoli
  janie Louisville, KY 10-31-2007

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  Excellent dessert

  Rated: 5 stars out of 5

  This is a really wonderful light and sweet tantilizing dessert. I was only disappointed that the recipe for the fresh ricotta... was not included like in his show. I hight recommend this recipe for anyone....easy and perfectRead more