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April 16, 2009

Heavenly Chocolate Mousse Cannoli

Heavenly Chocolate Mousse Cannoli

This isn’t a traditional cannoli.  In fact, I was struggling with what I should call this dessert since this pastry is not fried and not filled with ricotta or mascarpone cheese.  This was the best I could come up with, but I think it says enough.

Cannoli originate from Sicily, which is where my ancestors originate, too!  Cannolo is the singular word, but have you actually heard anyone used the term? 🙂  The pastry dough is fried, and the filling is a sweet cream made of ricotta or mascarpone.  But, here is my cannoli, filled with chocolate mousse…and it’s heavenly!

Dessert was my responsibility, again, for Easter dinner (yay!) and I wanted to think of something new. It was Friday afternoon and while I was preparing pizzelles for the dessert I was serving friends who were coming over for dinner that night, a revelation hit that I should roll some of the pizzelles into cannoli shaped tubes and use it for some kind of dessert for Sunday!   I didn’t know, yet, what I would fill them with.  But, I knew I could find some delectable filling for that crunchy decadent rolled cookie.

Sure enough, I found exactly the filling I was looking for on AllRecipes.  (That website never fails me!)  It was a recipe for Heavenly Chocolate Mousse.  Perfect!  I read the reviews and made some tweaks, including using coffee instead of water.  And, wow! it turned out SO finger-licking delicious!!!!

I had leftover ganache from the dessert on Friday, so I used it to top the cannoli and then dipped the sides in mini chocolate chips.

This was actually a pretty light dessert, so a few of us had two helpings.  The mousse recipe made enough to fill at least 12 cannoli shells.

Heavenly Chocolate Mousse Cannoli

Printable Recipe

For garnish:
mini chocolate chips
chocolate ganache

For the shell (pizzelle):
3 eggs
¾ cup white sugar
½ cup butter, melted
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder

In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar until thick. Stir in the melted butter and vanilla. Stir together the flour and baking powder, and blend into the batter until smooth.

Heat the pizzelle iron, and brush with oil. Drop about one tablespoon of batter onto each circle on the iron. You may need to experiment with the amount of batter and baking time depending on the iron. Bake for 30 to 45 seconds, or until steam is no longer coming out of the iron. Carefully remove cookies from the iron. Immediately and carefully, roll the pizzelle into a tube shape and hold for a few seconds until set.  Since you are doing two at a time, I set a fork on the first rolled one while rolling the second.  It sets quickly.  Cool completely on wax paper.

For the mousse:
8 oz semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup cooled strong coffee, divided
2 tablespoons butter (no substitutes)
3 egg yolks
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/4 cups whipping cream, whipped

In a heavy saucepan or double boiler, heat chocolate, 1/4 cup coffee and butter on very low heat until the chocolate and butter are melted. Cool for 10 minutes. In another small heavy saucepan, whisk egg yolks, sugar and remaining coffee. Cook and stir over low heat until mixture reaches 160 degrees F, about 2-3 minutes. Remove from the heat; whisk in chocolate mixture. Set saucepan in the freezer and stir every 3 minutes until cooled, about 5-10 minutes. Fold in whipped cream. Spoon into a large ziplock freezer bag. Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.

To assemble:
Pour mini chocolate chips onto a plate or wide bowl.  Snip small (not tiny) hole in the corner of the freezer bag and pipe the mousse into the cannoli shell. Pipe half from one side and then turn and pipe the other half from the other side.  Dip each side into the chocolate chips and drizzle with chocolate ganache.

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  1. Julie says

    April 17, 2009 at 2:45 AM

    Looks scrumptioius! Wish I knew how to make pizzelles 🙂

    Reply
  2. Erin says

    April 17, 2009 at 6:12 AM

    This looks delicious!

    Reply
  3. Sue Gladd says

    April 17, 2009 at 7:15 AM

    Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna come to your house for dessert!

    Reply
  4. culinarycory says

    April 17, 2009 at 7:21 AM

    These look absolutely amazing. I love how you were inspired to make these while making something else. That’s totally how I get most of my ideas.

    Reply
  5. Kim H. says

    April 17, 2009 at 7:33 AM

    Wow… that looks absolutely divine!

    Reply
  6. Amanda says

    April 17, 2009 at 10:52 AM

    decadent, indeed!

    Reply
  7. oneordinaryday says

    April 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM

    Looks and sounds delicious!
    Michelle
    http://oneordinaryday.wordpress.com/

    Reply
  8. Hillary says

    April 17, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    I like that you called it cannoli. Now it seems like the perfect dessert compromise for my chocolate loving boyfriend and my cannoli loving self! 🙂

    Reply
  9. Jennifer says

    April 17, 2009 at 2:12 PM

    So beautiful!! I’d love to have a plate of that now!

    Reply
  10. Pam says

    April 17, 2009 at 4:12 PM

    What a beautiful and tasty dessert…It looks rich and decadent.

    Reply
  11. pinkstripes says

    April 17, 2009 at 4:45 PM

    Those look wonderful. Can you believe I’ve never had cannoli?

    Reply
  12. ingrid says

    April 17, 2009 at 9:11 PM

    Looks good!
    ~ingrid

    Reply
  13. unknowntheartist says

    April 18, 2009 at 5:47 PM

    OMG, you are killing me with this post- I am so hungry just looking at that pic of the cannoli!!! What an awesome way to serve them- I would never have thought of it, nice work 🙂

    Reply
  14. Twisted says

    April 19, 2009 at 11:04 PM

    Wow. That look so incredibly delicious. I can’t handle it.

    Reply
  15. Katie says

    April 20, 2009 at 9:19 AM

    Heavenly is RIGHT! You are so darn creative and have the BEST stuff on here. I LOVE IT!

    Reply
  16. Cathy - wheresmydamnanswer says

    April 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    WOW incredible!! Looks so DAMN yummy!!

    Reply
  17. joelen says

    April 21, 2009 at 8:23 AM

    This looks amazing! Great job!

    Reply
  18. Angela says

    March 30, 2013 at 3:47 AM

    I made this filling tonight but swapped out the coffee for coffee liqueur. Absolutely heavenly!!

    Reply

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