This November's challenged was cannoli. I had never even eaten them before so I was a little nervous. Plus I am not really a huge fan of frying things I feel like I'm wasting oil, and my apartment smelled for days.
Here is the dough right before I rolled it out. It may have been too dry. I'm not sure because I have never made cannoli before.
I thought the dough was really hard to role out. I mean I don't have a rolling pin or anything so I used a cup, but it sprung back like crazy an I don't think a rolling pin would have fixed that.
I used a big mug as a guide to cut the circles out. Since I didn't have any forms I think I cut them too big.
I totally forgot that I was making cannoli when I was at the store so I did not even look for forms or anything that I could use as forms. So I looked all through my kitchen for something I could not only wrap the dough around but that would not melt in the hot oil and I came up with butter knives!
Camera reflection in the hot hot oil
The first one
Before I took them off the knives.
I got blisters! I was so excited to see that my cannoli blistered I was not sure that they would since everything seemed too thick.
All the shells I made.
I filled them with a cinnamon ricotta filling. It was slightly difficult to pipe the filling in because the shells were pretty narrow from using butter knives as forms.
And here I am after consuming the left over wine that went into the shells :)Overall it was a pretty good experience. I would like to try cannoli prepared by someone else so I can know if I did it right or not. The shells were thicker than I expected, though I think that comes from me cutting them too large for the "forms". I was not a huge fan of them the first night (though my roommate was) but the next day I thought they were pretty good.
