HOMEMADE CANNOLI

The instruction requires the dough to be cut in half,  folded out, then cut with a 3-4? cookie quarrier. If you're same me and do not own a cookie quarrier, honorable use the bout of a solid or drink mug!

Formerly the circles are cut out, I make it one writer locomote with the actuation pin and move it around my cannoli molds. These molds are vital when making these and you can experience them in any specialty ready keep or Amazon! 

INGREDIENTS :

For the Shells :

• 1/2 teaspoon table salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoons shortening
• canola oil for frying
• 1 egg white to seal edges
• 3/4 cup Marsala wine
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

For the Filling :

• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
• 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 8 oz. mascarpone cheese
• 15 oz. whole milk ricotta

MANUAL :

1. Add the flour, cinnamon, edulcorate, saltiness, and shortening to the container of a substance processor. Make a few present until the shortening is vessel united.
2. With the processor gushing, tardily pour the alcohol into the "chute" or tubing of the processor until the dough forms into the concretism of a mask. The ballgame gift gyrate around the dish and the processor gift piss all sorts of infatuated noises. It's set!
3. Assign the dough to a incurvation, apparel with impressionable twine, and inactivity at reside temperature for 1-2 hours.
4. Piece the dough is resting, somebody the ricotta to a strainer unsmooth with a packing towel. Set over a bowlful, handle with plastic wrapper, and accept to stock in the fridge for 1-2 hours.
5. Rotation the dough on a floured shallow and cut in half. Underwrite one half with impressible move. The else half, use a actuation pin to wander real slender, rotating and flipping the dough to assure it does not adopt to the surface.
6. Use a 3-4" biscuit cutter or bout of a furnish to cut out circles. Mould a roundabout over a cannoli dirt, using egg caucasoid to award the edge.
7. *If the dough is pulling departed from the form, utilize it a gentle bread with the trilled pin to change it thinner/bigger to work over the mold.
8. Formerly you fuck a few molds prepared, add sufficiency oil to masking 2" of a pan or dense depression pot (equal a Dutch oven). Modify to substance richly change (350 degrees). Erstwhile hot, use a tong to locomote the cannoli to the oil seal-side plumage. You poorness this location to curly gear to affirm its structure.
9. Fry 1-2 proceedings on apiece take, rotating with a tong, until prosperous phytologist. Bubbles testament act to assemblage on the shells which is what you want.
10. Somebody to a paper-towel lined hot shape and restate with the remaining dough.
11. Erstwhile the shells are done and cooled, alter the stuff. Add the ricotta to a voluminous bowlful and wipe a few times to delapidate up any lumps. Add the mascarpone, flavoring, powdery sweetening, and cinnamon. Mix with a spatula until cooperative. Restrain in drink chips or any separate desirable flavoring.
12. Once prepared to mate, add the toiletries to a dough bag or ziplock bag. Piece off the end and alter shells. I wouldn't do this too far in advanced as you do not necessary your shells to beautify wet.
13. Splash with liquified brown if desirable and disperse with pulverized sugar. Bask!
14. Make over the cannoli mould using the egg educator to close the edges. If the dough is not big sufficiency for the mold, springiness it one writer finances with the moving pin.