Description: This is a Jeff Advent treat

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Directions

1. Sift flour with salt and granulated sugar. Make a well in the center; in it place egg and butter. Stir with fork, working from center out, to moisten flour mixture. Add wine, 1 tablespoon at a time, until dough begins to cling together. Use your hands to form dough into a ball. Cover and let stand for 15 minutes.
2. Roll dough out on floured board about 1/16 inch thick. Cut into 3 ½ inch circles. With rolling pin, roll circles into ovals/. Wrap around Cannoli Forms; seal edges with egg white. Turn out ends of dough to flare slightly. Fry two or three at a time in deep hot fat (350ºF) for about 1 minute, or until lightly golden. Remove with tongs to paper towels to drain; let cool about 5 seconds; then slip out Cannoli Form, holding shell carefully. Cool shells completely before filling. Use pastry tube to fill. Sift powdered sugar over shell; garnish at ends. Makes 25.
3. Ricotta Filling.
4. 2 pounds (4 cups) ricotta cheese
5. 1 ½ cups unsifted powdered sugar
6. 4 teaspoons vanilla
7. ½ cup each finely chopped citron and orange peel
8. ¼ cup chopped sweet chocolate
9. Whirl 2 pounds (4 cups) ricotta cheese in the blender, or press through wire strainer, until very smooth. Fold in 1 ½ cups unsifted powdered sugar and 4 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in ½ cup each finely chopped citron and orange peel, and ¼ cup chopped sweet chocolate. Chill several hours or overnight
10. Cannoli recipe, continued
11. Fluffy Ricotta Filling.
12. ½ recipe Ricotta Filling
13. 1-cup heavy cream
14. Prepare ½ recipe Ricotta Filling; then folds in 1-cup heavy cream which has been whipped until stiff.
15. Pistachio Filling.
16. 1 recipe of Ricotta Filling
17. A few drops green food coloring
18. 2 TBS chopped blanched pistachios
19. To either of the above fillings recipes, add a few drops green food coloring to tint pale green. Use chopped blanched pistachios for garnish
20. Marsha’s Whip Cream Filling.
21. ½ cup powdered sugar
22. 2 cups whipped heavy cream
23. 2 teaspoons Mexican Vanilla
24. Package ofTollhouse Mini Morsels.
25. Whip ½ cup powdered sugar into 2 cups whipped heavy cream. Add 2 teaspoons Mexican Vanilla. Fold in a package of Tollhouse Mini Morsels.