The Best Cannoli Cake
This Cannoli Cake is one of my favorites! After spending the past week traveling through Italy and France I had to post this one! It only takes 30 minutes to bake.
Ingredients
Cake
Cannoli filling
Directions
- 1
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two 9” square cake pans with parchment paper and grease the sides.
- 2
In a large bowl combine dry cake ingredients, excluding sugar. Set aside.
- 3
In a medium bowl beat butter with an electric mixer. Add in sugar and beat for 5 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla extract and beat till combine. Alternating milk and flour add in a little at a time till it is combined and smooth. Fold in chocolate chips.
- 4
Pour half of the cake batter in each pan. Smooth with spatula. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Let cakes cool for 5 minutes and pop on to cooling rack.
- 5
While cake is continuing to cool make your cannoli filling by drying out the ricotta by patting it down with a paper towel to get out any wetness. Fold in powder sugar and vanilla extract till smooth. Now fold In chocolate chips till combine.
- 6
Pipe two cannoli shells with some filling. Set aside.
- 7
Cut sides of cake and frost one layer of the remaining cannoli filling on top of the cake. Put second layer of cake directly on top and frost top layer.
- 8
Sprinkle chocolate chips and add cannolis to top for decoration!