Chocolate salami is originally an Italian dessert popular across Europe that looks like a real salami, but it’s definitely not a meat product! This sweet salami is made from dark chocolate, broken petite beurre cookies, butter, raisins, eggs, and a bit of rum. The term “salami” simply comes from it’s physical resemblance. The chocolate is formed into a long cylinder and sliced to serve just like a real salami! The bright bits of petite beurre cookies resemble the white flecks of fat seen in salami.
This chocolate salami is a fast-to-make no-bake dessert that tastes delicious, and freezes well which means you can easily prepare it ahead of time. It looks impressive and complicated to make, although its easy and tastes absolutely delicious.
This recipe makes about 4 chocolate salamis, I previously made another version here, although I believe this version turned out much better. The store-bought wafer sheets you need for the recipe should look like the ones seen here. These can be bought anywhere in Europe, but can also be bought at European supermarkets in America.
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Chocolate Rum Salami
- 200 g powdered sugar
- 400 g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 4 wafer sheets (store bought)
- 80 g dark cooking chocolate
- 400 g Petite Beurre cookies (crushed into tiny bits)
- 80 g raisins
- 4 eggs
- 2 tbsp rum
- Soften your wafer sheets by placing them between wet towels (not soaking wet). Let them stay like this while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
- Mix eggs and powdered sugar in a pot of a double boiler. Add butter and chocolate and cook on a double boiler until it turns into the consistency of pudding.
- Remove from stove and mix in rum, crushed cookies, and raisins.
- Evenly spread the mixture over the softened wafer cookies and roll lengthwise into a salami.
- Allow the salami to dry for a few hours, then roll up in aluminum foil and place in the fridge to chill before serving. You can also place it in the freezer and slice it frozen whenever you want to serve, since they defrost very fast.
