Cannoli Tartlets

Ingredients:

• 2 cups part-skim ricotta cheese
• 1/4 cup granular sugar substitute
• 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
• Pinch of ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 boxes mini whole-wheat phyllo shells (15 shells each)
• 1/4 cup finely chopped unsalted pistachio nuts

Makes 30 tartlets

1. Stir together ricotta, sugar substitute, chocolate, cinnamon and vanilla in a medium bowl until well combined. Chill, covered, until ready to prepare tartlets.
2. No more than 2 hours before serving, fill mini phyllo shells with about 1 tablespoon ricotta filling. Sprinkle each tartlet evenly with pistachios and refrigerate until ready to serve.

WW POINTS VALUE: 2 pts (per tartlet)

Note: This recipe appears in the South Beach Diet Parties & Holidays Cookbook. A cannoli is a pastry that originated in Sicily and means little tube. Cannoli are very popular in Italian cuisine that is made of tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough that's filled with a sweet, creamy filling usually containing ricotta cheese. These cannoli from South Beach get a healthy makeover and they taste just as good. The phyllo tarlet shells replace the fried pastry dough. The filling does have the traditional ricotta filling but there's less sugar and more sweet flavors such as chocolate, ground cinnamon, vanilla and nuts to make this sweet treat heavenly delicious. I absolutely loved these sweet treats and I highly recommend serving these treat at your next party or get-together because they are so good and people will be talking about them for days.