So glad I can present to you a recipe that used to make my face lighten up when I was a child. My Mum used to make it every now and then and I was always amazed by how a sticky brown mass looking like nothing turned into a sweet bar of chocolate that looked like meat. Today I do not eat meat any more, but I feel like I am thrown back into my childhood when seeing (and eating) it.

I was very excited, when an Italian friend of mine told me they use to make this treat in Italy. I asked for the recipe, because my Mum never taught me how to prepare a chocolate salame. So here we go.

It is quite easy to prepare and the result looks realistic with no afford. You just have to let the fridge do the work. I used half of the original recipe and got out two sausages with the length of about 25 cm (10´´). As I assume this is quite much, still, I will let you know the instructions for this amount of it.

Chocolate Salame:

100 g butter
125 g shortbread cookies
100 g sugar
50 g dark cocoa powder
1 egg
1 pinch cinnamon

Crumble the cookies by smashing them with a rolling pin in a freezer bag.

Melt the butter in a medium-sized pan over low heat. Stir in sugar, cocoa powder and egg. Then put in all the cookies and mix well with a spoon.

Lay out a piece of aluminium foil and pour half of the chocolate mass in a line on it. Roll in the foil and shape it with your hands until it looks like – well – a salame. If you want to, you can put sprinkles or chopped nuts on the surface, so it does not stick to the foil. Otherwise dust it with some powdered sugar. Wrap the salame up in aluminium foil and let it chill in the fridge for at least two hours.

Then cut it into slices like a sausage ;)