Baked Cannoli With Whipped Chocolate – No Frying

Easy baked cannoli is something you can do without frying or cream cheese. Making a sweet crunchy shell is easy peasy baking. 🧡 Recipe below.👇

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And when you pair with homemade whipped chocolate ganache filling and whipped cream, you get a fresh and delicious decadent bite.

It sounds so impressive too… but is actually quick steps easy. Yay!

You can make this filling simple with heavy whipping cream and from a bag of your favorite chocolate chips!

For the chocolate ganache, heat the heavy whipping cream liquid on a stove.

Before the liquid is boiling (but is hot enough to melt chocolate), turn the stove off.

Then add the same amount of chocolate as liquid, and stir with a spatula or spoon until chocolate is fully melted..

…You’ll get a shiny ganache.

Refrigerate ganache until cold.

Then hand mix the ganache with a whisk or use a mixer to get a thicker matte frosting.

Spread a layer inside your cooled cannoli shell.

There’s also another easy making best way to melt chocolate into sauce from pantry ingredients and a home bain marie (double boiler) setup if you don’t have fresh whipped cream on hand.

For the whipped cream, mix the whipping cream on the highest setting for 1-2 minutes.

…Quick funny story, I worked as a pantry girl at a fancy, marbled-floor Italian American restaurant named Paolo’s Ristorante when I was a teen.

In the restaurant kitchen, they didn’t have a mixer for whatever reason the Chef didn’t want one.

And guess who had to do the daily cream whipping by hand for some whipped cream? Yes, moi.

The large piping bag of whipped cream was supposed to last for most the day or at least the lunch shift desserts I was working.

I remember I could never finish the job with my young arms. Today, I’m stronger but a mixer is much preferred leaning into the easy 💪

…And at home when you’re cream machine mixing, watch the mixer. Because on a high speed setting, if you blink you’ll miss it… and then you’ve made butter cream! 😅

…Save that one for another day and recipe!

So the smarter way is: after a minute or so, turn the mixer speed down to medium, so you can capture the exact moment the soft peak whipped cream comes together.

You still can blink and miss it, but it’ll be close enough. And good is good enough!

Your delicate cream made from chemistry will be delicious with the chocolate.

Then add the whipping cream to a piping bag and pipe onto the cannoli shell in a design that fancies you.

In case you’re wondering if sugar needs to be added as not mentioned before, I let the chocolate sugar be the sugar. And the baked cannoli.

Creams and butter have a standout taste (I have graduated from since restaurant days to think) that doesn’t need sugar… and especially if you’re trying to be anti-inflammatory and healthy.

But if you’re inclined to add sugar for taste to your cream, you can add some but the whipping cream doesn’t need it.

But that’s your choice.