The Easiest Cannoli is a no-bake dessert that combines ricotta cheese, confectioners' sugar, cinnamon and chocolate chips stuffed into cannoli shells. This streamlined recipe requires only mixing and filling—no cooking or frying involved.
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Mix cheese, sugar, cinnamon and chips together well and stuff into cannoli shells. You can dip one end of the finished cannoli in the melted chocolate and roll in chopped nuts if you like.
Store filled cannoli covered in the refrigerator for up to 2 hours; unfilled shells and the ricotta mixture can be stored separately for up to 1 day.
piping bag (optional but recommended for neat filling)
Yes, prepare the ricotta mixture up to 1 day in advance and store it covered in the refrigerator. Fill the shells just before serving to keep them crispy.
Use regular semisweet chocolate chips chopped into smaller pieces, or omit them entirely and add more chocolate coating at the end.
Fill the shells as close to serving time as possible. Filled cannoli are best eaten within 1–2 hours before the shells soften from the filling.
Yes, scale all ingredients proportionally. You will need more cannoli shells—calculate based on 12 shells per 3 lbs ricotta.
