These cannoli cream puffs are so simple, delicate and delicious! They make the perfect party dessert, but are also great for a relaxing night in. You’ll want to make these all the time!
Cannoli Cream Puffs
This year we wanted to have a quiet, family new years’ eve. Really, in the last few weeks there was so much work and so much stress for my husband and me that we came to the conclusion that a quiet evening is just what we need.
But, as is always the case, the telephone rang and I heard the expected question: “Vera, where are you going for New Years’ eve? Are you in for some time together?” My good friend wanted to bring together a few families in her home and the idea was for the little kids to enjoy themselves. How to say no? Why take away a few hours of fun to my son Marco and the rest of the kids who can’t wait for the night when everything is allowed. And then came the second expected question: “You make such beautiful treats, why don’t you make some for the kids?”. Of course, it was already clear that the idea of a quiet family night was gone, and that instead of that, I will spend the day in the kitchen and the night chasing after kids.
Then I had a new dilemma. What kind of treat to make? How to make everyone happy and not spend the whole day in the kitchen? Since I knew one desert wasn’t going to be enough I needed to find something that is made fast and easy. And something that will be appealing to kids. Searching through Pinterest I found an interesting photo: Cream Puffs. Hmmm, not a bad idea. Not so complicated and there is hardly a person that doesn’t like this tasty treat. And since there will be so many kids, I thought I could put a little chocolate filling instead of classic filling. There was not much thinking, because I had something like this on my mind for a long time: Cannoli filling with chocolate which I saw on the Cooking Classy blog. My final decision for the first desert was: Cannoli Cream Puffs and that is it! What ever will be, will be
And so, everything in my head was ready and very quickly the kitchen was smelling of Puff crusts. There were no difficulties with the filling either, so very quickly, I was at the final phase: filling the Cannoli Cream Puffs. Of course, with years of experience, all of my doses are bigger than the usual ones because the two termites (my husband and my son) came for their doses while I was still in the process of preparing.
And here, this is the end result of the first part of the “new years’ rush”.I took dome photos, did dish washing and very quickly, I had to move to round two of this story. But enough for now, I hope you will like this desert just as my husband, who has already had more than his fair share 🙂 .
PrintCannoli Cream Puffs
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: About 8 Cream Puffs 1x
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
Description
These cannoli cream puffs are so simple, delicate and delicious! They make the perfect party dessert, but are also great for a relaxing night in. You’ll want to make these all the time!
Ingredients
Pastry Puffs:
- 1 cup hot water
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 Tbsp. white sugar
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 large eggs
Chocolate cannoli Filling:
- 1 3/4 cup whole milk ricotta (drained if needed)
- 1 3/4 cup mascarpone cheese
- 3/4 cup icing (confectioners) sugar
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
Garnish:
- Icing (confectioners) sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425° F,place the wire rack in center of the oven, and line a pan with parchment paper .
- Over medium heat in a medium saucepan, combine hot water, butter, sugar and salt and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.
- Add flour all at once and stirring constantly and vigourously cook until mixture clears the sides of the pan and forms a ball around a spoon in the middle (2-3 minutes).
- Remove from heat and add eggs, one at a time and stir quickly and vigourously, until the each egg is combined before you add next egg. When you add all eggs stir more until the batter become smooth and shiny.
- Transfes batter to piping bag with a large star tip and pipe batter onto prepared pan, leaving about 2 inches between each one.
- Bake for 15 minutes at 425°, then reduce heat to 350° F. and cook for about another 10 minutes, or until golden
- Do not open oven while they’re cooking!!!
- Remove to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Filling:
- In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, combine ricotta, mascarpone and sugar and beat well until light and fluffy. Add cinnamon, vanilla and cocoa and mix.
- Place filling to piping bag fitted with a large star tip. With a sharp knife cut pastries in half and pipe the filling outside of the bottom half . Put the tops back, dust with powdered sugar.
16 comments
They look super fluffy and delicious! Pinning for later. Glad you shared!
Thanks Melanie,
I am glad you like it.
Regards
they look yummy!
I didn’t these in few years now..I should make some soon! Yours look perfect!!!
I was drooling over your pics which distracted my writing 😛 forgot to add “have” up there! 😀
Never mind, I’m glad you like these 😉
Wow! This is awesome! I can’t wait to make these. Thanks for sharing with Sharing It Sunday. I’m definitely pinning this one!
Thanks Michele 🙂
How delicious! And they are pretty too. Perfect for when you have someone over! I pinned it so I can try doing them myself.
Thanks Joanna:)
I think these look super yummy but I am allergic to ricotta cheese is there a substitute for ricotta would cream cheese work?…Hmmmmm
Hi Anita, I think that cream cheese would work good, too.
Made the cream puffs with a pastry cream and whipped cream filling……OMG delicious. Have never had cream puffs come out right before…….finally did it. Yummy!!!!!
Thanks Donna 🙂 Glad you like it!
Mine are in the oven now, rising up, up, up. I tried the pastry bag thing but for some reason I simply cannot successfully use a pastry bag with tips. So I ended up scraping out what I could, then just using a spoon like I always have. Much easier. I can’t wait to try the cannoli filling – I even bought some mini chips to throw in. I’m going to do half with cannoli filling and half with chantilly cream. But I don’t know how much longer I can wait!!
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