Ever tried a slice of this awesome chocolate dessert? Chocolate Salami is an easy, fast, kid-friendly and no-bake dessert that Italians eat for merenda – the afternoon snack. I’ve tested a few versions, but the one I like best is made with dark chocolate, hazelnuts and crushed tea biscuits.
GROCERY SHOPPING
7 oz of plain tea biscuits* + 2 oz (to add if the mixture comes out too soft)
7 oz of dark chocolate**
3.5 of sugar
1.7 oz of hazelnuts
2 eggs
I used a little less than two packages of Ülker tea biscuits* (found ’em in an ethnic store nearby) and 1 bar and 1/2 of Divine 70% bittersweet chocolate** (Central Market). Result: AWESOME!
- Melt the chocolate until smooth in a bain-marie (a heatproof bowl suspended over a saucepan of simmering water (but not touching the water).
- Meanwhile roughly crush the biscuits (you can use the smooth side of a meat tenderizer). They need to be rubble, not dust.
- Chocolate should be ready. Remove from heat.
- Crumble hazelnuts in a chopper.
- In a bowl, beat the eggs, add the hazelnuts along with the warm chocolate, and add the biscuits. Mix throughly until you have a smooth mixture.
- Try it – If you see that the chocolate is too much compared to the crushed biscuit, crumble more biscuits and add them to the mixture.
- Transfer the mixture to a sheet of parchment paper and mould the mixture into a fat salame-like log. If you need to, use your hands — you’ll have fun, it’s very messy :) — use the salami as a rolling pin and roll, roll until you get to the salami shape.
- Keep the salami in the parchment paper wrapping and cover it completely with foil. Then put it in the fridge for at least a couple of hours. Before serving, you can even get very creative: massage it with powdered sugar and string it up to give that actual salami look :)
Serve fridge cold!
Buona merenda :D
ps. what do you know about Italian salame, salamelle and salsiccia?
did you know that salame is actually pronounced ‘sah-lah-meh’ in Italian?
Would you believe I am Sicilian but I have never tasted this, and castagnaccio too. Looks very good, brava!
Look at you! You’ve got to try it – it’s DELICIOUS and easy-easy to make. I’ll have to make cannoli sometimes.
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