Cannoli Cake – Sugar Spun Run

Cannoli cake combines comfortable vanilla cake layers with a ricotta and mascarpone cannoli-filling-inspired frosting. I upload mini chocolate chips, however you’ll be able to in fact use your favourite toppings like chopped pistachios or candied fruit. Recipe features a how-to video!

Cannoli Cake: The Easiest of Two Nice Muffins!

As of late I’m reworking one in every of my favourite Italian truffles into a fantastic layer cake! This cannoli cake is made with 3 comfortable, comfortable, and wet vanilla cake layers (I borrowed closely from my chantilly cake to make those) cloaked in a frosting encouraged by way of cannoli filling. Those parts works fantastically in combination to present the cake a real cannoli really feel.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Critically impossible to resist frosting that tastes similar to cannoli filling. That is the real megastar of this recipe! It’s made with out butter, and is completely balanced with the appropriate sweetness stage. I may devour it by way of the spoonful 😋
• Makes use of the opposite creaming approach, which creates a young, relatively dense crumb AND as a plus, could be very arduous to over-mix (so it’s nice for newbie bakers!). I first shared this technique years in the past with my caramel cake, and I’ve been a fan ever since!
• Simple ornament and meeting. I simply use chocolate chips to embellish my cannoli cake, however you must get fancy with it and upload chopped pistachios and even upload some mini cannoli on most sensible!
• Very best for a crowd. As an alternative of filling a number of cannoli shells, why now not simply serve an similarly tasty cannoli cake?

This cannoli cake will be the highest finale to an Italian-inspired dinner, like my penne alla vodka or baked ziti!

Substances

We’ll use a couple of key elements to succeed in a flavorful, comfortable cake with a vintage cannoli style.

• Ricotta. Identical to when making my lasagna recipe, you wish to have to you’ll want to use entire milk ricotta right here. We can be straining this sooner than including it to our frosting; this guarantees our frosting can have the appropriate texture, in a different way it will be too runny.
• Buttermilk. My simple buttermilk replace will paintings in a pinch, however actual buttermilk will give you the easiest taste and moisture.
• Softened butter. In contrast to many cake recipes, we can now not be creaming the butter and sugar in combination for this cannoli cake. As an alternative, we can be beating the butter into the dry elements one tablespoon at a time. That is the opposite creaming approach! It’s somewhat other than the norm, however I like the effects and use it in lots of recipes (like my caramel cake and snickerdoodle cake).
• Mascarpone. A key part it’s possible you’ll acknowledge from making tiramisu, mascarpone provides taste to our frosting along the ricotta. Be sure you deliver yours out of the refrigerator for simply 15-20 mins previously; if it’s too chilly or heat, it may be a problem to paintings with.
• Cinnamon. This rounds out the flavour of the frosting and in point of fact provides to that original cannoli style!

SAM’S TIP: As all the time, room temperature eggs are easiest right here. They’re going to get a divorce and mix along with your different elements MUCH extra simply in the event that they aren’t directly from the refrigerator. If you happen to disregard to set your eggs out forward of time, use my trick to temporarily deliver eggs to room temperature.

That is simply an outline of the elements I used and why. For the entire recipe and video, please scroll all the way down to the ground of the publish!

How you can Make Cannoli Cake

Pressure the Ricotta

1. Position a strainer over a blending bowl (don’t let it contact the ground) and upload two layers of cheesecloth. Layer the ricotta on most sensible and wrap it within the cheesecloth, then position one thing heavy on most sensible (I exploit a large can of tomatoes). Let this sit down within the refrigerator a minimum of 4 hours or in a single day.
2. As soon as strained, you’re going to understand that the ricotta is far drier–that is highest! Now we will be able to upload it to our frosting with out including an excessive amount of moisture. You’ll be able to stay this within the refrigerator till you’re nearly able to make the frosting (take it out about 15-20 mins previously).

Get ready the Cake Layers

1. Whisk in combination the dry elements and sugars, then get started including your butter one tablespoon at a time. Combine till each and every tablespoon is absolutely integrated, then upload the following. When you find yourself achieved, this mix can be a dry and sandy-looking.
2. Step by step pour on your rainy elements and stir till the batter is clean and silky.
3. Divide your batter between your cake pans and bake till a toothpick inserted within the heart comes out blank or with wet crumbs. In case your oven handiest suits two pans at the heart rack, you’ll be able to depart the 0.33 pan for your counter (or simply depart the batter within the bowl, in case you handiest have two pans) whilst the opposite two bake.
4. Let the truffles cool for 10-Quarter-hour, then invert onto cooling racks to chill utterly.

SAM’S TIP: At all times prep your cake pans! Grease, flour, and line them with parchment rounds so there’s NO probability of your cannoli cake layers sticking to the pans.

Make the Frosting

1. Stir in combination the strained ricotta and mascarpone till clean. Keep on with low velocity and blend till simply mixed; the mascarpone can damage if treated an excessive amount of.
2. Upload the sugar step by step, stirring till simply mixed and clean.
3. Stir within the cinnamon, vanilla, and salt, then you definitely’re able to embellish!

Meeting

1. Upload a thick layer of frosting over your first cake layer, then most sensible with mini chocolate chips. Repeat along with your subsequent cake layer, then upload the general layer.
2. Quilt all the cake with frosting and embellish as you want. I love to press mini chocolate chips up the perimeters and across the most sensible of my cannoli cake!

SAM’S TIP: As a result of this frosting is so comfortable, I in point of fact counsel doing a crumb coat sooner than including your ultimate layer of frosting. It’s going to make adorning the cake such a lot more uncomplicated! If you happen to haven’t achieved one sooner than, I speak about this in my publish on how you can embellish a cake.

Often Requested Questions

I’ve been on somewhat of a cake kick in recent times–simply wait till you spot my subsequent one 🌴

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