When I saw the Challenge of this month Daring Bakers I wasn't thrilled at all. Not the fact that we were not baking this month was bothering me, no I just don't like Cannoli. Okay, I have to admit it's many years back I tried last time Cannoli. So I decided to give it try anyway.

First I made the dough. Easy peasy. I did just half of the quantity. Then I made a vanilla custard for the filling. Easy peasy, too.

I don't have to mention, that as a professed Cannoli hater, I don't have any cannoli forms, do I? But I'm innovative, so I asked Y. to cut some forms of a dried fig branch. No sooner said than done.

Then we tried to remove the bark. It was impossible. Whatever, I wanted to make my Cannoli now, so I took the cut branches as they were, just cleaned and oiled them. Ready to use.

I don't like frying smell in the house, that's why I deep fry "al fresco".

I set up my super cute electric deep-fryer, rolled out the dough with my Pasta accessory of my food processor, cut out circles and rolled the circles around the cut fig branches. Then I lowered 2 of the Cannoli tubes into the hot oil and fried them about 2 minutes, turning them so that they browned evenly, removed them of the oil and here the drama started...

Shut, I couldn't remove the forms! Grrrr!

4 woody Cannoli, 4 a kind of Faschnachtschüechli and I still don't like Cannoli - was the conclusion. ;-)

Head over to the Daring Kitchen Headquarter to see the recipe as well the perfect Cannoli my fellow Daring Bakers made.

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The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She added her own modifications/changes, so the recipe is not 100% verbatim from either book.

November 2007 Challenge - Tender Potatoe Bread
December 2007 Challenge - Yule Log
January 2008 Challenge - Lemon Meringue Pie
February 2008 Challenge - French Bread
March 2008 Challenge - Perfect Party Cake
April 2008 Challenge - Cheesecake Pops
May 2008 Challenge - Opéra Cake
June 2008 Challenge - Danish Braid
July 2008 Challenge - Filbert Gateau
August 2008 Challenge - Chocolate Eclairs
September 2008 Challenge - Lavash Crackers
October 2008 Challenge - Pizza
November 2008 Challenge - Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Frosting
January 2009 Challenge - Tuiles
February 2009 Challenge - Flourless Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Valentino
March 2009 Challenge - Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna (Lasagne Verdi al Forno)
April 2009 Challenge - Cheesecake with Lemon Curd Topping
Mai 2009 Challenge - Banana Strudel
June 2009 Challenge - Bakewell Tart
July 2009 Challenge - Milan Cookies
September 2009 Challenge - Vols-au-Vent
October 2009 Challenge - Macarons

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