Dessert Recipes
Chocolate Cannoli Dessert
Ingredients
- 3 packages ladyfingers
- 1 pound Ricotta cheese
- 2 cups (1/2 pint) whipping cream
- 1/4 cup miniature chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 small box Jell-O chocolate pudding mix
- Cold Espresso coffee, rum or chocolate milk
- 1/4 cup ground nuts (optional)
Instructions
- Make chocolate pudding and cool. Line an 8 x 10 inch pan with ladyfinger halves.
- Sprinkle ladyfingers with liquid of your choice (coffee, rum or chocolate milk).
- Strain Ricotta cheese through sieve.
- Mix with confectioners' sugar, vanilla extract, nuts and chocolate chips. Beat well with wooden spoon.
- Whip 1 carton of whipping cream until stiff, then fold cream into Ricotta mix.
- Spread this mixture on the moistened ladyfingers, then add another layer of ladyfinger halves on top of Ricotta mixture.
- Sprinkle with chosen liquid.
- Beat remaining carton of whipping cream until stiff. Fold this in completely cooled chocolate pudding.
- Spread this mixture over other layer of ladyfingers and refrigerate for 5 to 6 hours or overnight.
- When ready to serve, sprinkle top of cake with confectioners' sugar and cut into squares.