Chocolate Chip–Orange Cannoli (Cannoli di Ricotta)

Name: Chocolate Chip–Orange Cannoli (Cannoli di Ricotta)
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 79 milliliters miniature chocolate chips; 1 egg white, lightly beaten; 355 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 4 Tbsps candied orange peel, chopped, or finely grated zest of 2 oranges; 473 milliliters pound fresh sheeps- or cows-milk ricotta, drained 1 hour in cheesecloth-lined sieve; 177 milliliters superfine sugar; 1 Tbsp sugar; 2 Tbsps chilled unsalted butter, cut into cubes; 1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 liters About vegetable oil; 8 Tbsps limoncillo or other lemon or orange liqueur

Chocolate Chip–Orange Cannoli (Cannoli di Ricotta) requires approximately 45 minutes from start to finish. This recipe makes 12 servings with 314 calories, 5g of protein, and 18g of fat each. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have vanillan extract, cocoa powder, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Make dough

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Dough

In medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa, and cinnamon. Using fingertips or pastry blender, blend in butter just until mixture resembles coarse meal. (Alternatively, pulse in food processor.)

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Cinnamon

Butter

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

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Whisk

Bowl

Drizzle limoncillo over mixture and gently stir with fork until incorporated.

Turn out dough onto sheet of plastic wrap. (Dough will still look somewhat dry and crumbly.) Gather together into ball, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate 45 minutes to 1 hour.

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Dough

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Make filling

In medium mixing bowl, stir together ricotta, sugar, chocolate chips, orange peel, and vanilla. Spoon mixture into pastry bag fitted with 1/2-inch round tip and refrigerate until ready to use. (Filling can be made up to 1 day ahead and refrigerated, covered.)

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Chocolate Chips

Orange Zest

Ricotta Cheese

Vanilla

Sugar

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Mixing Bowl

Pastry Bag

Form, fry, and fill shells

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Pasta Shells

Cut dough into 4 even pieces. On lightly floured surface, roll out 1 piece to 1/8-inch thick. Using floured cookie cutter, cut out 2 to 3 rounds from dough.

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Dough

Roll

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Cookie Cutter

Transfer rounds to baking sheet and keep covered with plastic wrap.

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Wrap

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Baking Sheet

Plastic Wrap

Roll out remaining dough and cut rounds in same manner, then gather scraps, roll out, and cut again.

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Dough

Roll

Fill heavy 4-quart pot with oil to depth of 3 inches.

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Cooking Oil

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Pot

Heat over moderate heat until thermometer registers 375°F.

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Kitchen Thermometer

Meanwhile, brush bottom edge of 1 dough round with egg white. Wrap dough around 1 cannoli tube with egg white–brushed end overlapping other end and gently press edges together to seal. Make 5 more shells in same manner. (Keep remaining rounds covered with plastic.)

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Egg Whites

Pasta Shells

Dough

Wrap

Working in 2 batches, fry formed shells in hot oil until deep golden brown, about 1 minute.

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Pasta Shells

Cooking Oil

Transfer to paper towel–lined plate to drain and cool 5 minutes. Stand tubes upright and tap gently against countertop to loosen shells. Twist molds to remove shells.

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Pasta Shells

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Paper Towels

Wrap remaining dough around tubes and fry in same manner. (Shells may be made 1 day ahead and stored at room temperature, unfilled and uncovered.)

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Pasta Shells

Dough

Wrap

When ready to serve, pipe filling into 1 end of cannoli shell, filling shell halfway, then pipe into other end. Repeat to fill remaining shells. Dust with confectioner's sugar and serve immediately.

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Pasta Shells

Sugar