Easy Chocolate Salami Without Eggs

Ingredients

• 220 g plain cookies (- 8 oz, plain (such as Oro Saiwa, digestive biscuits, or vanilla tea biscuits))
• 50 g unsweetened cocoa powder (- 1/2 cup)
• 100 g dark chocolate 70% cocoa (- 3.5 oz)
• 60 g granulated sugar (- ~1/3 cup)
• 100 g unsalted butter (- ~1 stick, at room temperature)
• 50 ml milk (- 3 1/3 tablespoons)
• 40 g pistachios (- ~1 1/2 oz)
• 30 ml Rum, Brandy, or Marsala wine (- 2 tablespoons, (optional))
• powdered sugar ( - for decoration)

Instructions

1. 1

   Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler, stirring occasionally with a spoon.

2. 2

   Crumble: In a bowl, crumble the cookies with your hands. Alternatively, you can put them in a food bag and crumble them with a rolling pin.

3. 3

   Add the bitter cocoa powder and the peeled pistachios (either sweet or salted, it will taste great either way). Finally, add the sugar and mix all the ingredients together.

4. 4

   Add the melted chocolate, the butter, the milk and the liqueur (optional) and mix.

5. 5

   Transfer the mixture to a work surface covered with a sheet of baking paper and use your hands to form a sausage. As you form the cylinder, squeeze it well and compact it again.

6. 6

   Cool: Wrap the "sausage" in parchment paper, pressing the ends together. Then wrap it in aluminum foil and let it rest in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

7. 7

   Roll: After cooling, remove the cake from the paper and roll the chocolate salami in powdered sugar.

8. 8

   Serve the eggless chocolate salami cut into slices.