Homemade Cannolis

These are a very popular sweet dessert, which originate from Sicily and consist of deep fried batter essentially and sweetened ricotta cheese with chocolate chip cookies. However the fillings can vary much, and depend on your likeness, you can fill them with fruit or cream or even mascarpone if you so desire.


I first tried these when my sisters then boyfriend brought some down, and they were absolutely delicious. I decided to have a go myself, after purchasing some cannoli tubes from amazon at a reasonable price. However if you cannot be bothered to make the dough, there is always the alternative of buying pre made ones, from specialist italian shops.


I must admit that my first attempt did not go so well as the first, I had made the dough much too thick, and it was not as nice. Second time round though the dough was much thinner, so they tasted absolutely divine, although time consuming it was absolutely delicious. I filled mine with chocolate chips and the traditional ricotta. I found a recipe from the internet, two important things to note are that the ricotta you buy in supermarkets in UK so I read is very watery so it will need to be sieved ideally overnight to have good cannolis as you don't want them to go soggy, and also ensure the pan is piping hot. The other thing I have noticed is that when you wrap the pastry round the cannoli tubes make sure that when you secure the pastry round the tube loosely when you sea the edges it is important you do so properly, perhaps even with egg, otherwise when cooking they will open out slightly, no impact on the taste whatsoever, but more so on presentation as I discovered and will see from below, however third time lucky!!!

Try it yourself, slightly time consuming but well worth the effort I assure you!