Chocolate sausage
A fancy eye-catcher and so delicious is the Russian chocolate salami. You can make it at home with this no bake recipe. The chocolate sausage is ideal for a coffee round, for snacking or for giving as a gift.
Servings 1 chocolate sausage
Ingredients
- 350 g butter cookies
- 180 g butter cut into pieces
- 100 ml milk
- 130 g sugar
- 100 g walnut kernels
- 40 g cocoa powder
for dusting
- powdered sugar
Instructions
- Toast walnut kernels in a pan or oven, let cool and chop coarsely.
- Add milk, sugar and cocoa powder to a small, thick-bottomed saucepan and stir thoroughly.
- Place the saucepan on the stove and bring the cocoa mixture to a boil while stirring.
- Cook the cocoa mixture, stirring, for about 1 minute and remove from heat.
- Immediately add butter cut into pieces to the hot cocoa mixture and stir until butter is melted.
- Crumble half of butter cookies finely and the other half coarsely.
- Add the coarsely and finely crumbled butter cookies and the chopped walnuts to the cocoa mixture and mix to make a sticky chocolate mixture.
- Spread a double layer of plastic wrap on the work surface, spread the chocolate mixture lengthwise on one side of the wrap, form it into a "sausage" about Ø 5 cm thick and wrap it tightly with the plastic wrap, tying the ends tightly.
- Place the chocolate sausage in the refrigerator for about 3 hours or in the freezer for about 1 hour, until it is firm to the touch, and then remove the cling film.
- Dust the chocolate salami with powdered sugar and cut into slices.
Notes
- Instead of walnuts you can use other nuts.
- You can refine the chocolate mass with vanilla, cherry brandy, rum.
- Store the chocolate salami in the refrigerator.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the chocolate sausage at the top of the post.