Chocolate salami made without butter with condensed milk and dried fruits, flavored with cinnamon and amaretto, easy to make and literally irresistible, in fact, it has a flaw, it’s addictive. Preparing chocolate salami with condensed milk is very easy, and requires few ingredients, a base of cookies, ground and mixed with condensed milk, melted chocolate, and liqueur, in my case amaretto. I added a good amaretto aroma, but other liqueurs like rum or orange liqueur are fine too. I also added plenty of cocoa and cinnamon to give it a more intense flavor, and I must say the choice was spot on. In hindsight, I could have added some candied orange peel, which I prepare at home and are delicious, they would have been perfect together, too bad I didn’t think of it before.
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Medium
- Cooking methods: Microwave
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients for chocolate salami
- 21.2 oz mixed cookies (pan di stelle – shortbread)
- 7 oz milk or dark chocolate
- 1 1/4 cups condensed milk
- 5 tbsps unsweetened cocoa powder
- to taste almonds
- to taste hazelnuts
- to taste pistachios
- 1 shot glass amaretto or other liqueur
- to taste cinnamon
Tools to prepare chocolate salami
- 1 Blender
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Parchment paper
- 2 Gloves
Steps to prepare chocolate salami
Let’s start by preparing the nuts, shelling the pistachios, salted ones are fine too, about 1.75 oz, then toast almonds and hazelnuts, less than 3.5 oz each, quickly toast them in the microwave, about 45 seconds at 1200 watts, mine were quite moist. Pistachios do not need to be toasted. Alternatively, toast them in a pan on the stove, stirring continuously.
Blend the cookies until you get a flour-like texture. I had left a few whole vanilla cookies to crush by hand into large pieces, but while working, being very delicate cookies, they all got ground, but that’s not a problem.
Put the cookies in a large bowl and add the nuts. You can already add the cocoa, cinnamon, and the liqueur, a nice generous shot glass of the small kind.
Heat the condensed milk for less than 1 minute at 1200 watts in the microwave and add it to the cookies, do the same for the chocolate, broken into pieces in a bowl, melt at 700 watts for a couple of minutes, if necessary give it a few more seconds, stir, melt and add to the mixture.
Mix all the ingredients first with a spoon, then by hand, using gloves, to obtain a homogeneous dough. If the dough does not bind, it is necessary to add more liquids, you can use liqueur or milk, for a non-alcoholic version.
On a sheet of parchment paper, shape the chocolate salami, once a nice salami shape is obtained, wrap it in the parchment paper and let it set in the fridge for a few hours.
When it’s firm, sprinkle with powdered sugar, if you like, tie with a string, slice after 10 minutes out of the fridge, on a cutting board to get perfect slices, using a large smooth-bladed knife.
It keeps in the fridge for several days, but can also be frozen, even in slices, so you can enjoy one slice at a time whenever you want.
