I was over the moon when I found this recipe online. A reminder of my childhood days, during the holidays when my mother and aunts got together to bake and make holiday desserts for a family gathering. I always helped in the kitchen, but only because I wanted to taste all the goodies being whipped together across the kitchen counters all the way to the dinning table – where the women gathered to share secrets to their version of the same old recipe, and laugh out loud at all the fun being poked about this and that. I loved every minute of it.
So, since potluck is the sharing of the responsibilities of the hostess – here’s a great recipe for a unique dessert – chocolate salame – that’s been tried and tested by our extended families, eons ago, somewhere in a Mediterranean kitchen:
- 100 g di biscuits like digestives or similar
- 100 g of butter at room temperature
- 150 g of sugar
- 100 g of good quality unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
- Icing sugar
- Butcher’s twine
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Break the biscuits coarsely with your hands: do not use a blender, as we need some texture here, the biscuits will look like the fat in the salame.
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Cream butter and sugar, then add the cocoa powder. Once the cocoa powder has been incorporated, add the eggs, one at a time.
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Scrape the sticky dough on a working surface and mix in the chopped biscuits.
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With a spatula, or with wet hands, place the dough on a piece of cling film, wrap it and try to give it a cylindrical shape.
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Stash in the fridge for a few hours, until cold and solid.
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Remove the salame from the fridge and roll it in icing sugar, then tie it with butcher’s twine as if it were a real salame.
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Serve it sliced. Keep in the fridge for a few days. {more}
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