A Review & Release History of Aldi Cannoli and Dessert Dips

Like their other dessert dips, both of these have a noticeable cream cheese and sour cream-flavored base. That is where the commonalities end.

The Mexican Wedding Cookie lacks nuance. Instead, it hits you with the sugar, and that’s mostly it. It’s extremely sweet and creamy, with many bits of soft, lightly chewy, nutty bits. However, despite these mixins, their flavor is completely overwhelmed by the dip’s sugary sweetness. Similarly, while there is a noticeable cream cheese and sour cream flavor, it’s so sweet that those flavors fall into the background, too. I’m not sure what this would go well with, perhaps used as frosting for cookies and other pastries?

Horchata, to me, comes across as a bit odd (not the drink, this dip!). It’s more moderately sweet overall, definitely less than Mexican Wedding Cake, and instead sports additional cinnamon into its flavor profile. Essentially, what you get is more of a noticeable sour cream and cream cheese taste coupled with this cinnamon, and frankly, I’m not the biggest fan. It makes the cinnamon part taste off, a little bit, and almost artificial — it just doesn’t fit. Lastly, the supposed Graham cracker bits were mostly unnoticeable and didn’t add anything.

Wow, so sweet, especially compared to regular cannoli filling you’d find in, well, a cannoli! It nearly tastes like frosting except in a cannoli texture; it tastes like they mixed a bunch of sugar, a light amount of cinnamon, a good amount of butter, and some traditional cannoli flavor. It goes great with most cookies or crackers; I personally love to use vanilla wafers. Honestly, it would even work on a cake!

Sweet–much sweeter than regular cannoli filling and almost as sweet as the Aldi Snickerdoodle Cannoli Dip version. In terms of flavor, it’s definitely a pretty accurate creamy salted caramel with a background of traditional cannoli filling. It’s great with crackers and biscuits, and I could see this being the filling of a cannoli, although you may need to use a lot less than what’s typically used because of how sweet it is!

Unlike the Snickerdoodle flavor, these are the opposite. Instead of being super sweet, these are moderately sweet, with mostly unnoticeable mini chocolate chips that don’t appear to add much of anything to either the flavor or texture. Flavor-wise, it’s a regular ol’ creamy cannoli. So, basically, this just tastes like regular cannoli cream you’d find in the pastry with chocolate chips as decoration.

The Turtle flavor is a very creamy and thick dip that tastes like a mix of cream cheese with an especially noticeable sour cream flavor alongside a light chocolate. It comes across as something a bit above mildly sweet.

I don’t really get any pecan or nuttiness from it; really, it’s mostly a punchy sour cream and mild chocolate. Notably, the chocolate bits don’t add anything to the texture—this dip is uniformly a dip goop!

The Salted Caramel has the same texture but a different flavor. It’s especially salty with a mild caramel, that’s really it. To me, the caramel needs to be a lot stronger.

Overall, these aren’t as good as the cannoli dips. Are they cheesecake? Sort of, though, they definitely have a pronounced sour cream taste (with emphasis on sour), which I find most cheesecakes don’t have. At the very least, none of it comes across as artificial, and they’re all perfectly and pleasantly sweet enough.