Light Cannoli Cream for Fresh Fruit

This probably holds the record as the quickest of all recipes in the book. In a food processor, it takes less than 30 seconds. It's so luxuriously smooth that no one will suspect that it's made with ricotta cheese, which is what renders it remarkably low in fat.

The idea, a radically lightened version of the filling of the deep-fried Sicilian pastry called cannoli, originally came from my friend Johanne Killeen, co-owner of Al Forno restaurant in Providence, Rhode I