It's dessert day and today we are going
to make canoli cookies. Now canoli is an
Italian dessert. Has a crispy fried
outside with a creamy mixture on the
inside and it's very delicious. It is
one of my husband's favorite desserts. I
sent him out to go get some dirt from
Lowe's. That way I can make cookies for
him. This is a secret. I even had to
borrow some of his stashed pistachios
to get those shelled and ready for this
recipe. All right, you guys. You ready?
Happy holidays. Let's put this one
together.
What's great about this cookie? This is
going to happen all in one bowl.
You don't need separate bowls for
everything. And the first thing we're
going to do is put one cup of white
granulated sugar into a large mixing
bowl.
And then we want to add in two sticks or
one cup of very soft butter. I'm using
salted butter. And because I'm doing
that, I will not be adding salt to this
recipe.
So, everything you like about a canoli
is going in here. Now, we're going to
take our electric hand mixer and we're
going to blend the butter into the sugar
until it's nice and smooth and creamy.
Now, I left my butter out overnight.
Look at that.
Take a spatula and pull down the sides.
That way we make sure we get all the
sugar incorporated and that butter nice
and creamy, no lumps.
Just a little bit longer.
All right, that looks nice and creamy in
there.
All right, the next thing we're going to
do is take two eggs. I'm going to crack
them into a dish. That way we can make
sure there's no shells going in.
We'll add them to the mix and then we'll
blend that together.
Oo, it made that nice and fluffy, didn't
it?
Oo, isn't this what a canoli is all
about? It is the ricotta cheese. I'm
using the whole milk variety. And we're
going to need one
half cup.
I had to look at that and make sure.
Make the cookies nice and creamy.
All right, let's taste the ricotta.
It's a very mellow flavor, so it's not
going to overwhelm this at all. All
right. So, we're going to add that in.
Let's get that mixed in.
All right, let's have some more fun
here.
We're going to add in
half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
We're going to add in one teaspoon of
vanilla extract.
Get these holiday flavors rolling, huh?
And then we're going to take an orange.
Now, I've already washed it off and
we'll just zest it in there. Give it a
pop of freshness. So, I'm just going to
go around the orange.
Oh, I can smell that.
We're going to go all the way around
this one.
Smells good in there.
Let's mix this together.
Get my spatula again.
Pull down your sides. And then we're
going to mix it one more time.
There we go. Don't over mix.
What we're going to do, I'm just going
to take a sifter and put it over my
bowl. We're going to add in two cups of
allpurpose flour.
That looks good. We're going to put it
in the sifter very carefully.
And then we're going to put in one
teaspoon of baking powder. There it is.
We want our cookies to rise.
And allpurpose flour does not have any
leavenning in there. Rising ingredients.
So, we're going to add it.
One teaspoon.
And then we're going to put in half a
teaspoon of baking soda.
Now,
because I've used salted butter, I'm not
going to be adding salt to the recipe,
but if you're using unsalted butter, you
can add up to half a teaspoon of just
regular table salt. All right, because I
am a whisk taker,
we're going to take our whisk. We're
going to blend this all together into
the mixture.
Kind of keep it inside the bowl there.
That way, we don't have to do this in a
separate bowl with all the dry
ingredients, all the wet ingredients
incorporated. We're just going to do
this.
All right, clean up the flour. There we
go. As my husband would say, clean the
flour.
All right, we're going to blend this
together.
Start low.
All right, just until combined.
We'll pull it out. Get everything off.
All right, we're done with this.
Our spatula.
Make sure we get all the sides in.
We're going to fold in one cup of mini
semieet chocolate chips.
All right, we're going to fold those in.
Oh, I can see the orange zest in there.
Looks good.
All right, we're going to take some
pistachios. I'm using about half a cup
of shelled pistachios. And I just got
them out of this bag right here, which
my husband had stashed. I found
I knew he had them. So, what we're going
to do is break these up. I'm just going
to use my little food processor here.
There we go. That's what they look like.
Let's add it. And we'll fold those in.
Now, you can totally skip this step if
somebody doesn't like nuts.
There we go. What we're going to do is
cover this with some plastic wrap. We're
going to place it in the refrigerator
for 1 hour. We're going to make some
cookies. Okay, I've just taken it out of
the refrigerator. We're going to use a 1
and 1/2 in cookie scoop.
And we have a sheet pan. We've lined it
with some parchment paper. Guess who's
here, you guys? Can y'all hear the
coffee brewing right now?
Okay, so we're going to scoop
the cookie dough and I'm going to
flatten it. Coming out of the bowl,
we're going to place it on our parchment
lined sheet pan here. We want to leave 2
in between each
ball of dough here.
I see the little orange flexcks in
there.
I see the green pistachio, too.
All right, let's fill the rest of the
pan. Now, once we get these cookies
done, there's still something we have to
do to them.
Make them look like a canoli.
All right. Well, that's going to make a
lot of cookies. So,
look at that.
I'm going to have to share.
We still got another batch right here.
I've got my oven preheated at 375°.
We're going to bake these for about 8 to
11 minutes until they're nice and tender
on the inside. We want them nice and
kind of golden brown and crispy on the
edges. And then we'll remove them from
the pan, place them on a wire rack, cool
them slightly before we finish these
off. While those are in there, I'll just
get in the next pan ready to go. I'll
see y'all back here.
All right, I pulled the first batch out.
I'm going to place these onto our wire
rack right there. Look at the bottom of
that. Oo, yum. Right.
Like how they hold their shape. They
smell delicious. I didn't let them cool
down or anything on the pan. I just
removed them right onto the rack here.
It made 40 cookies.
Of course, if you count them right now,
you'd see 39.
We're going to cool these all down
completely.
And then I'm going to show you how we're
going to top them. Look at those. Woo!
Look how many we made that fast.
Okay, we've got all of our cookies
cooled down. We're going to go ahead and
make a chocolate drizzle. Now, I am
using one package of the mini chocolate
chips. They're the semieet. It's the
same ones that we use for inside of the
cookies. And what I'm going to do is I
place them in a microwave safe bowl. I'm
going to add about a tablespoon of some
coconut oil or you can use vegetable
shortening and put that right on top.
Get those stirred in there.
Now, I'm going to place this in the
microwave for 45 seconds.
And then we're going to stir and then
put it back in for 15 seconds until we
get a nice smooth consistency.
That's what we're looking for. So, it's
going to go ahead now and move quickly.
We want to drizzle over the cookies.
Just like that.
Now, I've put the cookies that were on
the sheetpan
on the rack there. And I put some
parchment underneath to catch any of the
dribbles
that hit the pan there. Makes for easier
clean up.
What do you think of my canoli cookies?
We're going to say, "Holy canoli, look
at these. I got my plate." Now, let's
talk about the chocolate. I melted a
whole pack and a half of those minis. I
would only melt probably the half a pack
that was left over from what you put
into the cookies and give that a try
because
that would do the whole 40 cookies. And
I went overboard a little bit. All
right, you guys. I'm going to give one a
try for you. Let's take a look.
Look at that.
Look how fluffy that looks on the
inside.
What do you think?
Oh my god,
that is like light and fluffy
and buttery.
I can taste that orange zest in there.
Mhm.
I can taste pistachio.
It is so light, airy, fluffy. Oh my
goodness. You guys, make these. Let
these sit out for a little bit so that
that chocolate sets on these cookies.
Give them out to everybody you know.
Or not.
That's okay. He could take those. Look
what I got.
He didn't think about that, did he?
I spoke too soon.
Those you can give away.
All right, you guys. We're going to call
these holy canoli cookies.
They're good
and Italian desserts made easy for the
holidays.
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