Chocolate Anise Cannoli Recipe

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Here’s that something-special treat you’ve been looking to add to your holiday cookie trays! We guarantee these wonton-wrapped bites with anise, cherries, chocolate, brandy and pistachios will be gone in a twinkling. —Marie Rizzio, Interlochen, Michigan

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Chocolate Anise Cannoli Recipe

Prep: 35 min. Bake: 10 min. + cooling

Yield: 16 Servings

35 10 45

Ingredients

16 wonton wrappers
Butter-flavored cooking spray
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 cup dried cherries
1 tablespoon cherry brandy
2 packages (8 ounces each) reduced-fat cream cheese
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup baking cocoa
3 tablespoons anise liqueur
1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup chopped shelled pistachios

Directions

Wrap a wonton wrapper around a metal cannoli tube. Moisten corner with water and seal. Transfer to an ungreased baking sheet. Repeat with remaining wrappers. Spritz with cooking spray; sprinkle with sugar.
Bake at 325° for 10-14 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes. Remove shells from tubes; cool on a wire rack.
Meanwhile, place cherries in a small bowl. Add brandy; let stand for 10 minutes. Drain and coarsely chop cherries. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, cocoa, liqueur and chopped cherries until blended.
In a microwave, melt chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Dip shell ends in chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Press into pistachios. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set.
Pipe filling into prepared shells. Serve immediately. Yield: 16 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 cannoli equals 175 calories, 9 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 21 mg cholesterol, 174 mg sodium, 19 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 5 g protein.

Originally published as Chocolate Anise Cannoli in Healthy Cooking December/January 2012, p33

Purchasing Pistachios

When buying unshelled pistachios, look for ones with the shell partially open so it's easier to retrieve the nut. Also, a closed shell indicates an immature nut.