Hi folks,
How about something a little different than the traditional onion dip or spinach dip? Think Italian!
CANNOLI DIP
Ingredients:
1 cup Ricotta Cheese
2/3 cup Heavy Cream
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 cup Powder Sugar
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Mascarpone Cheese
6 oz. of Mini Chocolate Chips
Directions
1- Place Ricotta Cheese in a cheese cloth and drain in the fridge over night in a colander in a bowl.
2- The following day, add all ingredients into a bowl (except chocolate chips) and mix with a mixer until desired consistency. If you beat it too long, the cream will turn into butter.
3 – Once you reach your desired consistency than fold in your chocolate chips.
4 – Refrigerate, freeze or serve.
5 – Serve with cannoli chips, pretzels, gram crackers, and/or fruit.
Grazie to The Everybody Loves Italian Recipe of the day
Cannoli Dip – From Dominic’s Recipe Box
Cannoli Dip – From Dominic’s Recipe Box
Do you like ricotta? Do you like oranges? Put them together and what have you got?
Ricotta and Orange cake. Okay, not an original name, but it is what it is!
Ingredients per 8 persons
Flour, 2 ½ cups
Butter, 4,2 oz
Eggs, 3
Caster sugar, 5,3 oz
Icing sugar, 3 tbsp + extra to sprinkle
Salt, a pinch
Orange organic or unwaxed, 1
Lemon zest organic or unwaxed, 1 lemon
Ricotta cheese, 17, 6 oz
Vanilla essence, 1 tsp
Candied orange rind (optional)
Procedure
Prepare the pastry by putting the flour in a heap on your worktop. Make a hole in the middle and add one egg, salt, the butter cut into cubes and icing sugar.
Quickly incorporate the ingredients with your hands and form a ball. Wrap it in cling film and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
With a rolling pin flatten the dough 0,2 inch thick, then lay it in a greased round mould. I have used a mould of 7,8 inch diameter. Prick the base with a fork.
In a bowl (or in a processor) mix the ricotta, zest and juice of the orange, zest of the lemon, sugar, vanilla essence, the 2 remaining eggs to make a creamy mixture.
Pour it into the mould on the pastry and bake at 374F for 40 minutes. If the filling is still too soft leave it into the turned off oven for a little longer, with the door ajar.
Sprinkle with icing sugar and, if you wish, decorate with candied orange zest.
Thanks to: My Little Italian Kitchen
~Leelee