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This Cannoli Dip is an easy sweet dip that is reminiscent of the inside of a cannoli! It is the best no bake recipe to make for a potluck or get together!
Easy Cannoli Dip Recipe
This recipe is an easy dessert dip: It tastes just like cannoli filling because it uses real ricotta cheese like you would find in an actual cannoli! It has the best flavor and pairs great with dippers of any kind, like any cracker or cookie! The dippers can replicate traditional cannoli shells to make this recipe the best!
Cannoli cream dip is the perfect sweet treat to put on dessert board or to put out at a party. It is a must make recipe for a party or even just yourself. This recipe is the best cannoli dip recipe you will find and everyone you serve it to will love it!
Ingredients Needed
- Cream Cheese: Make sure it’s room temperature to avoid lumps. Do not use low-fat or fat-free cream cheese.
- Ricotta Cheese: Make sure it’s room temperature and only use whole milk ricotta cheese.
- Powdered Sugar: To sweeten the dip
- Vanilla Extract: You can also substitute or add almond extract, or even some orange zest.
- Mini Chocolate Chips: Mimics the coating on the outside of a cannoli
- Dippers: Like Walkers Shortbread Cookies or other dippers – if you can find waffle cone pieces, those are super similar to cannoli shells.
How to Make Homemade Cannoli Dip
- Beat cream cheese until smooth using a hand mixer. Mix in ricotta cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips. The mixture will be a bit lumpy from the ricotta cheese.
- Serve in a bowl with cookies for dipping.
- Optional: make shortbread cookie sandwiches by filling two cookies with the cream.
Expert Tip
- The best things to dip in this recipe would be: Walkers Shortbread Cookies, Nilla Wafers, graham crackers, chocolate chip cookies, or any other cracker or cookie! Even strawberries or apples would taste good!
- Make a cookie sandwich with leftover dip! Take two cookies and sandwich some of this dip in the middle–it is so good!
- Do not use low fat ricotta or low fat cream cheese – these are thinner and will cause the dip to be too wet.
- Decorate the top with some chopped pistachios for an even more authentic look.
FAQs
Store this in the refrigerator in an airtight container and it will last about 3 days.
You don’t have to for the dip but if you want it to last longer or be thicker, then strain it. Place 3 layers of paper towels or a cheesecloth in a strainer and add the ricotta, let it sit for a few hours until the water drains out.
Cannoli Cream Dip Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 15 ounces ricotta cheese drained (not low fat)
- 2 cups (226g) powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup (170g) mini chocolate chips plus more for the topping
- Walkers Shortbread Cookies or other dippers for dipping or filling
Instructions
- Beat cream cheese until smooth using a hand mixer. Mix in ricotta cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips. The mixture will be a bit lumpy from the ricotta cheese.
- Serve in a bowl with cookies for dipping.
- Optional: make shortbread cookie sandwiches by filling two cookies with the cream.
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Recipe Notes
- Dippers: Shortbread cookies, pizzelle cookies, broken waffle cones, Nilla Wafers or any cookies are all great dipper ideas.
- Do not use low-fat ingredients.
Recipe Nutrition
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Last Updated on December 13, 2023
The nutritional information seems off. Are the amounts really based on one cup of dip? 1229 calories and 71g fat seems too much.Â
These so simple and cute. I’m loving all the cannoli posts for DB. Great job
I followed the recipe for Canoli dip exactly and it was extremely loose… Â so much so the mini chocolate chips were sinking :(… Â How do you thicken it up?
Thank you for sharing your recipes!
More like cannoli DREAM dip. YESSSSSSSSS
Looks good. The supermarket in my area actually sells cannoli shell chips, sort of like waffle cone pieces. I love Walkers and will have to try that with the dip.
Yum, this does look good. Paired with shortbread cookies makes it even better. All you need for the toga is a white sheet and a belt. We have several.
This dip looks delicious! And shortbread cookies are hands down my absolute favorite.
Hi Dorothy,
I’m not new to Crazy for Crust, as I’ve been following your site (with much enjoyment!) for at least a year. But, I have not posted a comment…until now. I love cannolis! And, I’ve never had a bad one, only good ones. I agree, though, that the filling is the best part, but paired with Walkers Shortbread Cookies?!? Genius. They, too, are my favorites! I swoon when I see a box in the store. Thanks for a unique twist on a delicious (I think) dessert. I can’t wait to make it!
I can’t wait for summer vacation for my daughter either. The end of the year is so crazy and I am ready not to stress about which uniform to wear which day, what she needs to bring in that day, all the events, etc. I am ready for the days of nothingness! And ready for this dip. Yum!
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