This Cannoli Tart has all the great flavors of a cannoli wrapped into one simple tart! With a touch of cinnamon and mini chocolate chips, it’s got all the things I love most about cannolis.
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Cannoli Tart
So I spent most of my baking time this past week on this one darn recipe for the cookbook. It just would not cooperate. It wasn’t bad, per se, but it also wasn’t just right. And truly, I’m quite picky. Especially when it comes to a book that’s going to be published. Talk about scary.
So I had several versions of said recipe stacked in several cupcake carriers around the kitchen. Saturday morning I came down early to keep working on it. Several hours later when the hubs came down, he revealed that he’d had trouble sleeping the night before and when he came downstairs to watch tv, he got into the cupcakes.
Of course my brain immediately went into panic mode – for about 5 seconds. Did he eat ones I needed for comparison purposes?! Oh no!
But then he followed up with, “But I ate ones from different tiers so they weren’t all the same batch.”
Phew! 😉
He could see my relief – and laughter – and claimed that he was proud of himself because he now knows how to properly steal cupcakes from me. Ha! Thief!
It was also his birthday, so I couldn’t be too mad. 🙂
This cannoli tart is absolutely worthy of some major thievery.
If you’ve hung around this blog for a while, you’ve probably realized that I love cannoli desserts. I don’t always love getting cannolis from bakeries. I find they tend be to super sweet, which is weird to hear me say, but it’s true. But I love making my own cannoli-inspired desserts. A cannoli poke cake, cannoli icebox cake and now a tart. And I’m sure there’s more to come. I can make them just sweet enough with just the right amount of cinnamon. Mmm mm mm!
And this particular dessert is nice because it’s so easy. It’s almost completely no bake, but I did actually bake the crust. I wanted to be sure it held together a little better when sliced.
How to Make a Cannoli Tart
The filling is made first by making homemade whipped cream. It lightens up the tart filling nicely.
The next step is to combine the mascarpone cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla and cinnamon. I love using mascarpone cheese. It’s so darn yummy. Some cannolis actually use a combination of mascarpone and ricotta, but because ricotta can be a little finicky with the amount of water I stuck to mascarpone. Feel free to replace some of it with ricotta if you prefer.
Carefully fold the whipped cream into the mascarpone mixture. You want to use a folding motion so that you don’t deflate the whipped cream.
Spread the filling into the tart, top with some mini chocolate chips and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Refrigerate it until firm and devour! Such an easy to way to enjoy a wonderful cannoli dessert! Yum!!
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Cannoli Tart
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 7 minutes
- Total Time: 17 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Cannoli Tart has all the great flavors of a cannoli wrapped into one simple tart! With a touch of cinnamon and mini chocolate chips, it’s got all the things I love most about cannolis.
Ingredients
CRUST
- 1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 5 tbsp butter, melted
CANNOLI FILLING
- 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar, divided
- 12 oz mascarpone cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- mini chocolate chips, for topping
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees and grease a 9 inch tart pan.
2. Combine ingredients for crust and press into the bottom and up the sides of the pan.
3. Bake crust for 7 minutes, then remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
4. To make the whipped cream, whip heavy whipping cream on high speed for 2-3 minutes. Cream will initially bubble a little bit, then start to thicken.
5. As the cream starts to thicken, add 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.
6. Whip on high until stiff peaks form, for a total whipping time of about 5-7 minutes.
7. Set whipped cream aside and combine mascarpone cheese, remaining powdered sugar, vanilla extract and cinnamon. Mix on slow speed until combined. Do not over mix.
8. Carefully fold the whipped cream into the mascarpone mixture.
9. Spread filling into the tart crust and refrigerate until firm, 3-4 hours.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Silce
- Calories: 459
- Sugar: 19.1 g
- Sodium: 157.1 mg
- Fat: 35.9 g
- Carbohydrates: 31.3 g
- Protein: 4.9 g
- Cholesterol: 98.3 mg
Keywords: cannoli dessert, cannoli recipe, cannoli filling recipe, cannoli cream recipe, tart recipe, tart crust recipe, italian dessert, italian dessert recipe
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I have 8 ounces of Mascarpone, do you think the filling will still set nicely if I use 4 ounces of cream cheese in addition?
Yes, it should set fine.
When do the mini chocolate chips go on? Prior to chilling or afterwords?
Either way should be fine.
Hey! First, my apologies for my english. I saw your recipe and I want to do it but I don’t know which measures to use. I try through internet and it is very complicated beacase in Croatia and UK or US isn’t the same fore grams or cups…So have you measures in grams instead of cups or tbsp. If u don’t have, nevermind but it will much better for me and my calculating and searching over the internet. Thank You very much. Luna
Check out my conversion chart.
I have a tart pan with a removable bottom. Can that be used for this recipe?
Definitely
Do you think this could be made two days in advance and sit in the fridge or would it not last that long?
Yes, I think that would be fine.
OMG just made this. Didn’t have time to make the tart crust so I used a pre cooked chocolate pie crust. So easy to make. Can’t wait to try this later. I go Gaga for anything Canolli.
★★★★★
My dessert did not look like this, it wasn’t as deep, think I could have just doubled the ingredients and definitely 1/1/4 cups of crust wasn’t enough , other than that it tasted delicious
Why did my heavy cream/powdered sugar turn into liquid and clump? What did I do wrong?
Like, it clumped as you were whipping it? That would be very strange.
You over whipped the cream and made butter!
I saw this recipe this morning since I wanted to try something different with cannoli cream instead of making a cannoli cake that I usually make. I’m definitely going to try this recipe but I’m going to modify it a bit. I have a yummy cannoli cream recipe that I use and I want to stick with it so I’m just going fold the whipping cream in it.. and use 1/2 sugar & 1/2 powder sugar when I’m making the cannoli cream.. it doesn’t have that powder sugary taste.. plus I add a splash of fresh squeezed orange juice to it and it’s so good!! I can’t wait to make it after work today 😊
Hi! Do you think I could use half mascarpone and half ricotta for the filling? Thank you!
I would think that’d be fine.