Homemade Cannoli Milkshake

Homemade Cannoli Milkshake, an easy vanilla milkshake recipe with tastes of a cannoli including ricotta, orange, cinnamon, and chocolate. Add a little liqueur for the best adult cocktail version!

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You know how much I love cannoli anything and everything! This Cannoli Milkshake recipe fits right in with all my other fun cannoli recipes. Start with a vanilla milkshake base and add some cannoli flavors like orange, ricotta, and chocolate shavings and you’ll have a fun Cannoli Milkshake in no time.

If you’re wondering “What is a Cannoli?”, let’s start with that. It’s a delicious Italian pastry with a crisp shell and filled with a sweetened ricotta filling.

Cannoli Recipes

Check out some of my other fun twists on a cannoli with all these cannoli inspired recipes:

• Mini Cannoli Dip Cups
• Best Cannoli Dip
• Cannoli Cake
• Cannoli Cream Chocolate Truffles
• Cannoli Cookies

All delicious and crowd pleasers! Perfect for parties, potlucks, and dinner parties.

How to Make a Milkshake

The easiest way to make a milkshake is with a blender or milkshake maker. An inexpensive blender works just fine.

In my opinion, for how to make the best milkshake, I’d suggest not over blending all the ingredients. If you leave your blender on too long, I find the milkshakes can become really “runny” and not as thick as you may like.

To make this Cannoli Milkshake, all you need to do is put all your ingredients including the vanilla ice cream, ricotta cheese, milk, orange zest, cinnamon, vanilla extract, and chocolate shavings in the blender or milkshake maker and blend until just combined.

If you like your milkshakes really thick you may want to add less milk and/or use full-fat ingredients. You can use low-fat ingredients such as milk, ice cream, and ricotta cheese but your milkshake may not be as thick and flavorful. Personal choice though!

How to Make a Milkshake Without Ice Cream

If you have a dairy allergy, you can definitely use a vanilla ice cream substitute that you like such as an almond milk or coconut milk ice cream.

You could try using ice and a little yogurt, tofu, or banana for texture for more of a smoothie type drink, but I have not tried them with this particular recipe so can’t say how it will turn out. You may need to experiment a little.

Instead of milk, you could also use cream, half-and-half, or a dairy substitute such as almond or coconut milk.

Again, be careful to not over blend all your ingredients. Once you have your milkshake, pour into your favorite milkshake glasses. The recipes makes one really large or two small milkshakes. It would also be great as “shots”.

Top with your favorite toppings such as whipped cream, additional chocolate shavings, chopped pistachios, and/or Cannoli Chips or broken cannoli shells.

For a fun adult version of this milkshake, add a little of your favorite liqueur to the blender such as amaretto or nocello. Cake vodka would also be great! Yum!

Hope you enjoy this Cannoli Milkshake recipe!

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Homemade Cannoli Milkshake

Cannoli Milkshake, a fun frozen drink and twist on the Italian pastry!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Keyword how to make a milkshake, Italian cannoli drink

Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Yield 1 drink (large) or 2 drinks (small)

Ingredients

• 1 cup vanilla ice cream (or ice cream substitute)
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1/2 cup ricotta cheese
• 2 teaspoons grated chocolate divided
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh orange zest
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Optional toppings: whipped cream, grated chocolate, chopped pistachios, orange zest, and/or cannoli chips

Instructions

1. Add ice cream, milk, ricotta, grated chocolate, vanilla, orange zest, and cinnamon to a blender. Pulse a few times until it just comes together.

2. Pour into a milkshake glass. Top with your favorite toppings such as whipped cream, grated chocolate, chopped pistachios, and Cannoli chips.

Recipe Notes

SNAPPY TIPS: For a thicker shake add more ice cream or reduce the milk. This recipe makes one large or two smaller shakes, but you can make any size.

SNAPPY SUBSTITUTIONS: Instead of vanilla ice cream you could use your favorite ice cream substitute like almond milk or coconut milk ice cream. Instead of milk, you could use cream or milk substitute. You can use regular or lowfat/light ingredients. Taste can vary greatly depending on how many substitutions you make.