re: Submission Thread for F&DB Chocolate Challenge May 4, 2021

I am not really a dessert maker so working with chocolate is pretty new to me....so here goes nothing.

Chocolate Ravioli with Cannoli Filling and A Fresh Raspberry Sauce.



Since I had just gotten a pasta maker I was thinking of some sort of way to incorporate chocolate into a dish with it, but I was originally thinking more of a savory main dish. Upon looking I realized that it was more common than I thought and came across something that was intriguing to me...Chocolate pasta.

The ingredients are pretty simple, you just make pasta in the same manner but you add some cocoa powder and powder sugar in place of a little flower. Gathered up what I needed and went to work.



For the pasta

2 1/3 cups Flour
1/2 cup Cocoa powder
1/4 cup powdered sugar
3 Large eggs
1/3 cup Water

I mixed up the dry ingredients in my food processor and gave it a few pulses to mix it up. Drop in the eggs, throw on the lid, and hit the dough cycle button. While it was rolling I added water slowly until it came together into a nice wad of chocolate pasta dough.










Wrap it up and some cling wrap and stick it in the fridge to rest for at least a half hour. Next was on to the filling in the sauce.

The original recipe for the filling was chocolate and had you adding some more cocoa powder but I did not want to do that.

12 oz whole milk Ricotta cheese
8 oz Mascarpone cheese
1/2 cup powdered sugar




Easy enough… Onto the fresh raspberry sauce. Add all the ingredients to a pan and cook on medium heat. Stir often until the raspberries break down and release their juices. I would have liked the sauce a little thicker so I probably would have reduced it a little bit here or try to add something to thicken it. Run it through a fine mesh strainer to get the seeds out.

1 1/2 lbs fresh raspberries
1/4 cup white sugar
2 Teaspoons lemon juice












Roll out some sheets of chocolate pasta to use in the ravioli mold. Speaking of ravioli molds make sure you get a good one and not some cheap crap from China. After struggling and fighting with mine to make a few salvageable raviolis it came to my attention that it was not completely flat so when I rolled with the rolling pin it was not cutting them out as it was supposed to. I also overfilled some which made for a big mess...needless to say I need more practice making ravioli








Now all that is left is to boil the raviolis gently for a little while to cook the pasta and then make the plate. I will be completely honest while it is very fun and intriguing to make...chocolate flavored pasta is just not my thing