Summer dessert!

Chocolate-dipped cannoli cupcakes

What do you need (for 12 cupcakes):

Cupcakes:

• 1 box of cake mix 

or

• 260 gr of flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 100 gr of sugar
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar (optional)
• 1 egg
• 110 gr of oil
• 220 gr of milk

Cream:

• 425 gr of riccotta
• 225 gr of mascarpone
• 130 gr of powdered sugar
• 1 cup of chocolate chips (or one milk chocolate chopped into pieces)
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla (optional)

Chocolate coating:

• 2 bars of dark chocolates
• 3 tablespoons of butter

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 180C.
2. "Dry ingredients" (flour, baking powder, sugar, vanilla sugar) mix together in a bowl. Next add eggs, oil and milk and mix together (do it with a fork, don't use a mixer). Fill the muffin tin about 3/4 of the way up with a cupcake dough. Bake for about 20-25 minutes. Cool cupcakes completly.
3. In a big bowl mix riccotta, mascarpone, sugar and vanilla together, using mixer until it's well combined. Add all chocolate chips and mix it carefully.
4. Cut a small circle in the center in each of muffin and press it down (to the bottom) to create a hole. Fill cupcakes with cream and make a small hill on top of them. Put them in the freezer for 1 hour (until firm).
5. Melt the dark chocolate and butter together. Dip the tops of cupcakes into the melted chocolate. Put them in the fridge to firm up.  

Written by