My family’s tradition is to have an Italian meal on Christmas Day. We really don’t have much Italian in our background, but my mom makes a wonderful spaghetti sauce with meatballs and hot Italian sausage that we look forward to every Christmas. After Christmas dinner, we always have cannolis. My sister and I have so much fun making them! We bought the shells at a local bakery and made the filling ourselves. Lucky us…there are several left over!
Cannoli Filling
Ingredients:
4 cups ricotta cheese
1 1/2 cups unsifted powdered sugar
4 tsp vanilla
1/2 cups chocolate chips
Directions:
- In large bowl, fold powdered sugar and vanilla into the ricotta cheese.
- Mix in the chocolate chips.
- Fill cannoli shells with filling.
- Sift powdered sugar over the top of the cannolis.
Some pictures of serious concentration while my sister and I prepare the cannolis:
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Gorgeous cannoli!
Oh those look SO scrumptious!
Enjoy!
Looks so good!! I’ve never made cannolis, but these look delish!
Sounds like a fun Christmas tradition! The look delicious!
We normally have a big Italian meal on Christmas too…but this year we did something different, brunch! It was a nice change, but I miss my Christmas lasagna!
Cannolis are one of my all time favorite dessert! These look so good!! Yum yum!!!
Hope you had a merry Christmas!! Happy New Year to you!
I’ve been looking for a cannoli recipe that I wanted to try- I’ve found it! Thanks. Have a great time in NYC!