Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato)

Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes

Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato)

This dessert is very popular amongst the Italian families and it is usually eaten with coffee, after lunch. It is sometimes served as dessert in trattorias, especially in those rural trattorias you can find along the Po river at the border between Lombardy and Emilia Romagna regions of Italy. There are many variations of the theme, of course, and this is down to the local culinary customs, as always happens in Italy. It's a rustic dessert that probably would never find a place in those fancy restaurants, but it is very good to eat and this is what really matters!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 8
Calories 650 kcal
Italian Apron
Serving bottles
Classic Italian Cooking

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Ingredients
 

  • 300 grams (11 oz) Rich tea biscuits
  • 150 grams (5 oz) Butter (unsalted)
  • 100 grams (4 oz) Dark chocolate (I have used 85% cocoa)
  • 100 grams (4 oz) Caster sugar
  • 2 Eggs This is a dessert containing raw eggs, so be sure you buy fresh, top quality eggs.
  • 30 ml (1 fl oz) Dark rum
  • As an option, try adding 40 g (1 1/2 ounces) of citrus peel and double the quantity of rum.

Instructions

  • Cut the butter into pieces and let it warm to room temperature.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Break the chocolate bar into pieces and put them into a small bowl. Melt the chocolate using the bain Marie method.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • While melting the chocolate, stir with a spoon to be sure that there are no lumps. When the chocolate is completely melted, set the bowl aside and let the chocolate cool a little.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Put the biscuits into a large bowl.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Break the biscuits using the back of a spoon; make them into crumbs.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • When the butter is soft, work it with an electric whisk for few seconds and then start adding the ingredients as shown next (you can add all these ingredients without stopping to whisk).
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Add the sugar.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Add the eggs.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Whisk for few seconds.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Add the melted chocolate.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Whisk for few seconds.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Add the rum and whisk again for few seconds.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Pour the mixture into the large bowl containing the biscuit crumbs. If using citrus peel, add this now.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • With a spoon, work the mixture until all the biscuit crumbs are completely coated with the chocolate mixture.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • The result should be a chocolate dough.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Take the dough and make the shape of a salami. Put the chocolate salami onto a layer of cling film and then wrap it with the film.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • When wrapping, press the chocolate salami to make it compact. Then seal the sides and put the chocolate salami in the fridge for a couple of hours.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • After a couple of hours, you can slice your chocolate salami and serve it with coffee or tea.
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
  • Enjoy it!
    Chocolate salami (Salame di cioccolato) | Dessert Recipes
Italian Apron
Serving bottles
Classic Italian Cooking

Nutrition

Calories: 650kcal
Keyword Dessert
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Federico Pezzaioli is an ex-badass Italian Paratrooper on a mission - to make creating delicious authentic Italian food really easy. He researches, writes and photographs each recipe with the same attention to detail he used to apply to packing his parachute.

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