There were some comments about whether this would work as a single cake, rather than small individual cakes. I'm happy to report that it works just marvelously! I took Christine B's idea and ran with it, making one 8" round cake that I then split into two layers with the cannoli filling between the layers. I iced the cake in the remainder of the filling, poured chocolate ganache (also a KAF recipe) over the top, letting it drizzle down the sides, and rimmed the top of the cake with pistachios, also making a little pistachio star at the center. I didn't put pistachios in the filling (because that's not how the cannoli's I grew up with came) and, as expected, it took about 20 minutes for the cake to bake all the way through. I'm a decent baker, but by no means experienced or "great," but the recipes I've found here are so well done and thorough that everything I've tried has turned out spectacular. Thanks for all your work and effort.

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