An Italian and Portuguese dessert made from cocoa, broken biscuits, butter and sometimes alcohol such as port wine or rum, this delectable chocolate dessert is made with melted chocolate, vanilla tea or digestive biscuits, pistachios, and of course butter and heavy cream to hold it together. Like salami, chocolate salami is formed as a long cylinder and is sliced across into discs for serving. These discs are a brown, chocolaty matrix, like the red meat of salami, peppered with bright bits of biscuit much like the white flecks of fat in salami, and also chopped nuts, such as pistachios and almonds or hazelnuts. In Italy, it is called Salame al Cioccolato (chocolate salami) or, especially in Sicily, Salami Turcu (Turkish salami). Any way you slice it, it's a sweet ending to any festive meal.
Wrapped with twine, the chocolate salami resemble the meaty cousin
Chocolate Salami
Makes 2 logs
Recipe courtesy of Yummy Addiction
3 1/2 oz dark chocolate
5 oz unsalted butter
5 tbsp cocoa
2 tbsp white sugar
14 oz or 400g can sweetened condensed milk
7 oz pistachios and blanched almonds, hand chopped
13 oz digestive biscuits or tea biscuits, broken into small pieces
1/2 cup powdered sugar, for rolling
Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler until smooth. Add the sugar and cocoa and mix well. Add the condensed milk and mix once again until smooth.
Combine the cookies and nuts in a bowl and pour the chocolate mixture over them. Mix until everything is covered in chocolate. Divide the mixture between two sheets of parchment paper and roll it up, twisting the ends. Refrigerate for at least 3-4 hours for the logs to harden, the more time the better. Before serving, cover the logs with powdered sugar.
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