Cannoli Bundt Cake - Mighty Mrs | Super Easy Recipes (2024)

This cannoli bundt cake is to die for! And super easy to make since you start with cake mix. The cake is so moist, made with ricotta and then topped with cannoli frosting and chocolate chips. A fun and tasty dessert to celebrate special occasions.

If you love cannolis but aren't quite sure you want to get into advanced pastry-making then you will love this cannoli bundt cake recipe!

★ Why You'll Love this Recipe ★

This cake is super easy to make, using cake mix as a starting point. One of my favorite cooking hacks is doctoring cake mixes.

You'd be surprised to hear how many professional chefs also start with a cake mix. It's not a sin, I swear! It's a time-saver and you can get amazing flavor from a cake mix.

This pretty and yummy cake is topped of with a dusting of powdered sugar and more mini chocolate chips.

An Easy Dessert for Special Occasions

Celebrating a birthday, holiday or anniversary? This is an impressive dessert that tastes so good and is really easy to make. An all-around win.

★ Ingredients You'll Need ★

All the cannoli flavor you love...

... baked into a cake!

To pull this off, you just need some basic cake-making ingredients plus a few traditional Italian dessert ingredients.

We'll start with vanilla cake mix and add ricotta cheese, milk, and chocolate chips.

The ricotta cheese adds flavor as well as moisture. So you end up with a dense and delicious cake.

Next comes the frosting.

This is sort of a buttercream frosting with ricotta cheese and vanilla added in creating that traditional cannoli flavor you know and love.

★ How to Make this Recipe ★

This cannoli bundt cake is especially designed to be an easy-to-make, yet impressive dessert.

The full recipe is detailed as well as a how-to video can be found below. But to give you a quick idea of the steps, here's an overview of what's involved:

• Squeeze ricotta to remove liquid.
• Mix together cake mix, chocolate chips, eggs, milk, oil and ricotta to form batter.
• Pour batter into greased bundt pan.
• Bake then let cool.
• Turn cooled cake onto a cake plate.
• Mix together frosting ingredients.
• Top bundt cake with powdered sugar, frosting and chocolate chips.
• Serve!

★ Tips & FAQs ★

There are a few tips and tricks to nailing this cake on the first try so be sure to follow the directions and check out the notes for a few extra tips.

Do not use French Vanilla Cake mix.

Standard "Vanilla" cake mix or white cake mix tastes best. I find the "French vanilla" flavor to be off-putting. It taste like imitation vanilla extract. Not good! So be sure to check the box of cake mix before you buy.

You can also use yellow cake mix but keep in mind, the color will change.

What size boxed cake mix do I get?

Cake mixes vary slightly in size. The exact size really doesn't matter much as long as it is close to 13.25 to 14.25oz.

Bake time may vary slightly, but just be sure to test your cake for doneness and pull it as soon as it's set and you'll be good to go.

How to Get Your Bundt Cake out of the Pan

Without falling apart, breaking in half or cracking.

Yes, there is a secret to getting your cooked bundt cake to drop smoothly out of the bundt pan.

You need to use baking spray.

I use Baker's Joy which is made of flour and oil. The combination is like magic and the cake slides right out of the pan when you use a generous amount.

What size bundt pan is needed?

For this recipe, you will want a large bundt pan for this recipe. I recommend a 12-cup size or larger.

If using a smaller bundt pan, you can cut the recipe down as needed.

Keep in mind, the batter will expand when baked so you want to make sure the bundt pan is not filled up more than ¾ full or you could eventually have a mess on your hands.

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Storing this Cannoli Cake

Since this cake is made with ricotta and cream cheese, you will want to store this cake in the fridge. Bring out the cake about 20-30 minutes before serving to let it get to room temperature.

The cannoli frosting doubles as a dip!

This is a two-for-one recipe in that you can actually serve the frosting as a dip! So, if you're looking for a fun, sharable dessert or party snack then make just the frosting (you can double it if feeding a crowd) and serve it with a sweet cookie. I like to use vanilla wafers or waffle ice cream cones broken into a pieces and dusted with powdered sugar.

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