Chocolate-Covered Cannoli Recipe from Epcot Food & Wine Festival 2008

Each year, food and wine lovers travel to Walt Disney World to experience the great food and wine at the annual Food & Wine Festival hosted at Epcot. While the festival is spread out over two months, how are you able to get your Walt Disney World Food & Wine festival fill during the other 10-months throughout the year? Epcot has released some of the recipes that have been served throughout the kiosks in the World Showcase in years past, which should help people get through the times they are not at Walt Disney World, or just to have a little flashback of Food & Wine vacations from the past.

This is the recipe for Chocolate-Covered Cannoli from Epcot Food & Wine Festival Italy pavilion.

Ingredients for this recipe

10 ounces dark chocolate

4 medium cannoli shells

1 ¼ cup ricotta cheese

4 tbsp sugar

3 tsp mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 tsp freshly grated orange peel

½ tsp vanilla extract

Directions for recipe

1. Place dark chocolate in the top of a double boiler over gently boiling water. Stir chocolate until completely melted and remove from heat.

2. Dip each cannoli into the chocolate, completely coating each shell, set aside on a wire rack.

3. Mix ricotta cheese, sugar, chocolate chips, orange peel and vanilla extract in a medium bowl on low until well blended.

4. One hour before serving, place mixture in a piping bag without a tip and fill both ends of the cannoli shells.

Serves 4

* Epcot Food & Wine Festival 2008