I posted this question yesterday but I can't find it anywhere so I'm resubmitting it. I made a cake for my son's birthday that had a canolli cream filling. It tasted great but the texture was a problem for me. It was really grainy. I tried the same recipe again, this time using powder sugar instead of granular and still had the same problem with graininess. Any suggestions on how to remedy this issue?

I had the same issue. Did you use ricotta? I thought my graininess was from that.

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Can you share what recipe you are using, and how you made it? That may help someone be able to answer you better.

As a full blooded Italian, I have always only used ricotta cheese and powdered sugar and my cannoli cream is never grainy.

With regular ricotta cheese you have to first drained it for at least 2 days (I put a coffee filter into a sieve and put it into a bowl with a top, then into the fridge). First step in making cannoli cream is to puree it thoroughly, food process, blender, hand blender or through a sieve.

I recently discovered Sargento whole milk ricotta "velvety smooth". That (and only that) is the only brand I will use now, it doesn't have to be pureed first.

HTH,

Toni Ann

Sargento is definitely the way to go! I buy everything Sargento over Polly-o. I've mixed the ricotta with a hand mixer after draining, but never in a processor or blender... i will try that next time.

Anthing thing i've done the last time that i made it was add marscapone cheese as well.

Thanks for all the wonderful replies! and special thanks to Texas sugar for playing detective and finding my first post on this! lol. I had a feeling it was the ricotta seeing as how changing the sugar didn't fix the problem. The recipe I was using mentioned nothing about pureeing the ricotta so thank you Toni Ann for that tip. I also didn't drain it long enough apparently, ( I was only draining over night) so I will do that differently as well. Mrsg1111, did you like the result with the marscapone cheese? Out of curiosity I might try a batch with that. Oh, my son just said to thank you all for all the tips since it looks like I will be making a lot of test cakes ... he of course will reap the rewards of those! LOL . Thanks for the help y'all

LeeAnn

Everyone loved it! I'm not sure what difference it made as I've been using marscapone from the first time i made cannoli filling. I had it in my 'fridge from Tiramisu so i added it...