Ricotta Cream

4 from 1 vote

This fresh melt-in-your-mouth ricotta cream uses only three ingredients, is ready in minutes, and goes beautifully with berries or shortbread cookies. It's so easy, delicious, and elegant; it will blow your mind!

The recipe yields 4 small servings.

Prep Time5

Total Time5

Course: desserts

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: Ricotta cream

Servings:

Calories: 211kcal

Author: Katia

Ingredients

1 cup (approx 250 grams) ricotta cheese*
5 tablespoon powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
3 tablespoons 70% Dark Chocolate, shredded or chips

Instructions

First thing, place the fresh ricotta onto a clean tea towel, fold it, and twist gently but firmly to squeeze out excess moisture.
Place the squeezed ricotta in a bowl, add powdered sugar, vanilla extract and whisk with an electric beater for 1-2 minutes until fluffy. Alternatively, combine ricotta with the other ingredients in a food processor and blitz until smooth.
Once the ricotta cream is ready you can fold in the dark chocolate bits, of you can transfer the ricotta cream into small serving bowl using a spoon or a piping bag and garnish with the shredded or grated dark chocolate , or chocolate chips if you like.
To make a more impressive dessert, serve your ricotta cream cold or at room temperature with fresh berries or shortbread cookies. Enjoy.

Notes

Ricotta: the recipe uses a bit more than ½ lb (250 grams to be more precise, which is the weight for standard ricotta container in Europe), but it's a flexible recipe so there's no need to weight the ingredients with a kitchen scale.

Nutrition facts: the nutrition values are for one portion only and are based on an online nutrition calculator. It’s an estimate only and it should not be considered as a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice. Please see my disclosure policies.

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