Homemade Pistachio Cannoli Recipe
Prep Time:
2 hours
Cook Time:
15 minutes
Servings:
8 Cannoli
Ingredients
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons sugar
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons butter, cut into cubes
  • ¼ cup dry white wine
  • 1 egg yolk
  • Vegetable oil, for frying
  • 8 ounces mascarpone cheese, softened
  • ½ cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ⅓ cup white chocolate chips
  • ½ cup raw pistachios, finely chopped
Directions
  1. Add flour, sugar, salt, and butter to a food processor bowl. Pulse 15 seconds.
  2. Add wine and yolk and pulse 1 minute, until a crumbly dough forms.
  3. Knead the dough on a clean work surface for 5 minutes.
  4. Cover the dough with plastic and let it rest for 1 hour.
  5. Roll the dough into a ⅛-inch thick, 5-inch wide strip.
  6. Use a 3-inch cutter to cut 8 circles out of the dough, rerolling if necessary.
  7. Preheat the oil to 350 F in a large pot.
  8. Lightly grease cannoli tubes with cooking spray.
  9. Wrap each dough circle around a cannoli tube and firmly press the overlapping edge to seal.
  10. Fry cannoli shells in batches for 3-4 minutes, until they are a deep golden brown.
  11. Let the shells drain and cool briefly on a wire rack, then remove them from the tubes.
  12. Add mascarpone, cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla to a mixing bowl, and whip until thick and creamy.
  13. Melt the white chocolate in a microwave in 15-second intervals, stirring between each.
  14. Dip both ends of each cannoli in white chocolate, then in pistachios, and let them set for 10 minutes.
  15. Add mascarpone cream mixture to a piping bag and pipe it into each cannoli.
  16. Sprinkle with more pistachios and powdered sugar and serve.