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Gluten Free Baked Cannoli Bites

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These gluten free baked cannoli bites are a great handheld dessert that are great for entertaining. You will love that these little-baked cannoli cups are baked, and not fried. It makes them much healthier.

A wooden servig tray with Gluten Free Baked Cannoli Bites on it. There are chocolate sprinkles on the canonoli

Since going gluten-free, the one thing I have missed has been cannoli. It is flaky, crunchy, and just plain delicious. These baked cannoli bites are delicious and easy to make.

close up of two Gluten Free Baked Cannoli Bites with chocolate sprinkles on them. The cannoli cups are on a silver platter

Some of that crunch comes from frying the cannoli in oil. I have tried to re-create cannoli several times, but I wanted to try to make a healthier version that didn’t need to be fried in oil.

I hope you will like these baked cannoli shells…trust me that it is much healthier than frying!

Gluten Free Baked Cannoli dough with shapes cut out for the cups

Roll out the dough and use a round cookie cutter to shape the dough.

Picking up a cannoli dough circle cutout

The colder the dough, the easier it is to work with.

A mini muffin tray with the cannoli dough in each section

Press each circle into a mini muffin tin. Push in the middle to make cups. Bake until they are crispy and hard. Allow cooling fully before adding the cannoli filling.

Gluten Free Baked Cannoli Bites on a cooling rack

I put the gluten free cannoli bites onto a rack and spooned in the mascarpone filling.

Top with sprinkles, or even dip the cannoli cups in dark chocolate…the sky is the limit with this dessert.

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Tools You Need to Make This Recipe:

  1. Mini muffin pan. This has enough sections to make this whole batch in one baking.
  2. Rolling pin. That is a given to make the pastry flat…this one is dishwasher safe, which makes clean up a breeze!

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How to make gluten free cannoli cups:

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Gluten Free Baked Cannoli Bites
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
35 mins
 

Easy baked gluten-free cannoli cups

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American, Italian
Servings: 24
Calories: 105 kcal
Author: Sandi Gaertner
Ingredients
  • 2 cups Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 Gluten Free Flour Blend (*Note, my flour blend has xanthan gum included. If yours doesn't, add 1 teaspoon.)
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cardamom
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup cold butter
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
  • 6 tablespoons cold water
  • For Filling:
  • 8 ounces mascarpone cheese
  • 1/2 teaspoon cardamom
  • 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, add all dry ingredients.
  2. Whisk to blend.
  3. Add cold butter and cut in with a pastry blender.
  4. Cut butter into flour mixture until it looks like large crumbs.
  5. Add remaining wet ingredients and mix well.
  6. On a floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
  7. Use a round cookie cutter to cut out small circles.
  8. Press dough cut outs into mini muffin tin. Press center down with fingers to make bowls.
  9. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes until done.
  10. Move to cooling rack and allow to cool.
  11. Filling
  12. Mix mascarpone cheese with sugar and cardamom.
  13. Use a spoon to fill each cup with mascarpone filling.
  14. Top with sprinkles.
  15. Spoon fill
Nutrition Facts
Gluten Free Baked Cannoli Bites
Amount Per Serving (1 g)
Calories 105 Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 6g 9%
Saturated Fat 3g 15%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 2g
Cholesterol 21mg 7%
Sodium 37mg 2%
Potassium 2mg 0%
Total Carbohydrates 10g 3%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Sugars 2g
Protein 1g 2%
Vitamin A 4%
Calcium 2.1%
Iron 2.2%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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