Messina cannoli with chocolate: variation of traditional Sicilian cannoli and prepared with a delicious cream of ricotta and chocolate and chopped hazelnuts. The perfect Christmas cake for those who love chocolate. It is a typical Messina recipe that I have loved since I was a child and, every Sunday, the tray of sweets and pastries arrived on the table. At the time our reference pastry shop was Irrera, in Piazza Cairoli: My father, delicious, he never gave up the Sunday dessert. Is, when he asked me what I wanted, I had no doubts: a chocolate cake.
Chocolate cannoli: it is not cream!
Among the chocolate desserts the famous “black cannolo” by Irrera was one of my favorites. I see that in many sites when we talk about chocolate cannolo we refer to a waffle stuffed with chocolate custard, in some cases even without eggs. But the Messina cannolo is prepared with sifted ricotta, icing sugar, a pinch of cinnamon and dark chocolate. It was done this way when I was little and it is done like this even today, as confirmed by the websites of the most important local pastry shops.
May mislead the texture of the cream, which is extremely silky and smooth. But this is a distinctive feature of the Messina cannoli whose ricotta, unlike that of Palermo and Trapani, it is smooth and passed twice through a sieve. Then, in recent times, cannoli with white cream arrived everywhere, chocolate, Pistachio: too sweet and cloying. And I remain fond of tradition.
Seen that, respect to Cannoli, the only difference is the filling, I refer you to the recipe of traditional ricotta cannoli for all my tips and recommendations on the waffle and the VIDEO RECIPE step by step to understand the procedure well. Which you will also find, in 'romantic' version, in this short 30-second net video on my Instagram profile.
And if you are still looking for ideas for Christmas recipes and menus, I refer you to the 11 THEMATIC COLLECTIONS OF IDEAS AND RECIPES FOR CHRISTMAS, where you will find salty ideas but the CHRISTMAS CAKES WITH RICOTTA, those CHOCOLATE, the DESSERT SPOON and the CHRISTMAS SWEETS WITH CITRUS FRUITS. Have a good day!