Cannoli Cake with Cannoli Cream Frosting: Moist melt in your mouth cake topped with a decadent cannoli cream frosting. Your favorite Italian dessert in cake form!
Cannoli is a traditional Italian dessert that consists of crispy fried shells filled with sweetened ricotta. It is delicious ,but tricky/time consuming to make.
This Cannoli Cake has all the flavors of traditional cannoli, but is a cinch to make.And Holy Cannoli is it good!
This milk soaked cake is topped with a rich cannoli cream frosting and plenty of chocolate chips.
It doesn’t require any fancy equipment and can easily be made without a mixer. Want to turn this into a cannoli birthday cake? Check out my layer cake version.
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Cannoli Cake with Cannoli Cream Frosting Recipe
Adapted via Life Love Sugar
Cannoli Cake
Ingredients
- 1 Box White Cake Mix (Plus Ingredents Called For on the Box)
- 14 Ounce Can Sweetened Condensed Milk Divided
- 1 ½ Cup Ricotta Cheese Strained
- 1 ½ Cup Mascarpone Cheese
- 2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 1 Cup Powdered Sugar
- ½ Teaspoons Cinnamon
- ½ Cup Mini Chocolate Chips
- Additional Powdered Sugar If Desired
Instructions
- Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan. Bake cake according to box directions. Cool completely.
- Poke holes in the top of the cake. (I used a wooden spoon.)
- Set aside ½ cup of the sweetened condensed milk. Pour the rest over the top of the cake.
- Cover and refrigerate for ~1 hour or until milk is absorbed.
- In a large bowl combine ricotta cheese, mascarpone cheese, cinnamon, and vanilla extract. Mix under smooth.
- Add powdered sugar a little at a time until just combined.
- Mix in remaining sweetened condensed milk.
- Spread frosting evenly over cake.
- Sprinkle with mini chocolate chips and dust with additional powdered sugar if desired.
- Refrigerate for 2-3 hours before serving. Store in the refrigerator.
Nutrition
Cannoli Cake Shopping Tips:
Don’t substitute cottage cheese for the ricotta in this recipe. It is cheaper but will not give you the same rich flavor or texture.
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What do you think of this cannoli cake? What is your favorite cannoli filling?
Made this for Christmas to impress my husband’s ex-wife (long weird story). She thinks I’m some kind of chef now….LOL!!!
Hi Brenda,
LOL this is one of my favorite comments I’ve ever gotten. Thanks for letting me know! 🙂
You could make this recipe as cupcakes as well, I assume. Poke a few holes in each cupcake and put the condensed milk into each one then frost as you would any cupcake.
Brilliant I want to try it now! Thanks for the idea Liza!
Very good but to me to much vanilla so I cut the vanilla in half much better. My family loved it.
Glad to enjoyed! Thanks for the tip re. reducing the vanilla.
It was very good except to much vanilla so I cut it in half much better with less vanilla.
thank you for the cannoli cake recipe. it was delicious. my husband and I loved it!
So glad he liked it Lynn, have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
Can you make this the day before you plan to serve it? Does it hold up well overnite? Thanks.
Good question Sue! Overnight would be fine (just be sure to keep in the fridge)!
I am in love with this cake! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Yep, I’m already drooling. This looks so moist and sweet and dreamy and okay, I think I’ve fallen for a piece of cake. If you couldn’t already tell, I can’t wait to try this!
Thanks so much! Do you Karly take this slice to be your loftily wedded sweetheart?To have and to eat?
Wow! Never tried this before. Love the frosting!