Better late than never, I guess! Unfortunately, I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off this week and have been unable to blog about my latest Daring Baker challenge. I actually had all good intentions of blogging last night, but we lost power for 3+ hours, so that idea was shot as well.
So, I was really concerned when I heard that the Daring Bakers were making cannoli this month. I have a fear of deep-frying and thought this would be the most difficult challenge ever. To my shock, this was a very easy challenge, and I'm looking forward to making more cannoli. My only problem was that my ricotta cheese filling was a little watery. I could not find any cheesecloth at the grocery store, and thought paper coffee filters would be an acceptable substitute for draining the ricotta cheese. Unfortunately, it didn't work as well as I thought, so I had a yucky watery layer on top of my ricotta filling. I also used less sugar than the ricotta filling recipe called for because I didn't want an overly sweet cannoli. I actually went too far in the other extreme - my cannoli could have been a touch sweeter for my taste.
Here are my pictures:
Here is the cannoli dough prior to kneading. Yes, it's a purpley-red color due to the wine in the dough!
The rolled-out cannoli dough. I think next time I might try to make actual chocolate dough.
Raw cannoli ready to go into the pot of oil.
The cannoli deep-frying. It'd deep-fried dough, what else can you want?
Freshly fried cannoli cooling for a moment.
Pan of cannoli just waiting for a filling!
The ricotta filling all ready to go. It was still delicious despite being a bit watery!
Fresh filled cannoli with a few extra chocolate chips. They were really good, just could have been a bit sweeter!
