Cannoli

Fried pastry tubes filled with sweet ricotta.

Ingredients

• 2 cups Flour
• ½ cup Marsala wine
• 3 tbsp Butter
• ¾ cup Sugar
• 500 g Fresh cottage cheese
• 100 g Dark chocolate
• ½ cup Pistachios
• 1 tbsp Cocoa powder
• 4 cups Frying oil
• ½ tsp Salt

Method

1. Make the dough — Mix the flour, sugar, cocoa, salt, butter and marsala into a firm dough and rest 1 hour.
2. Drain the ricotta — Hang the ricotta in cloth overnight — wet ricotta will make the shells soggy within minutes.
3. Roll and wrap — Roll the dough paper-thin, cut circles, and wrap around metal tubes, sealing with egg white.
4. Fry — Fry at 180°C for 2 minutes until blistered and golden, then slide off the tubes and cool.
5. Make the filling — Beat the drained ricotta with sugar and fold in chopped chocolate.
6. Fill at the last moment — Pipe the filling only just before serving.
7. Cannoli are ready — Dip the ends in pistachio and dust with sugar.

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