”You have to taste a culture to understand it.”

– Deborah Cater

No bake chocolate cake – chocolate salami

Step by step video tutorial

Chocolate sausage or chocolate salami is one of my favourite childhood desserts, which we could make ourselves as it was easy and simple to make, as well as the necessary ingredients were often available at home: cookies, butter, sugar, eggs and cocoa powder.

For a more festive situation the chocolate sausage can be made in the shape of a cake. It does not require baking, can be made in advance and stored in the fridge for several days.

Serving Size:
1 cake 13 cm diameter
Time:
Prep time: 20 min
Rest time: at least 3h
Difficulty:
Easy

Equipment

  • Springform cake form 13 cm / 5 inches in diameter

Ingredients

  • 200 g / 7 oz plain, crispy cookies (Maria cookies, digestive cookies, graham crackers, Leibniz biscuits)
  • 135 g / 0.5 cup unsalted butter
  • 100 g / 0.5 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 60 g / 7 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 150 g / 1 cup dried fruit and/or nuts (optional)

Directions

  1. Insert a piece of plastic wrap in a cake form covering the bottom and sides. Leave the plastic wrap sides outside of the cake form to put them over the cake afterwards. This way it will be easier to remove the ready cake from the form.
  2. Put the cookies in a bigger bowl and break them in small pieces.
  3. Chop the dried fruit and nuts. Add them in the bowl with the cookies and mix, making sure the dried fruit do not stick together in lumps.
  4. Melt butter in a pot on the stove on medium low heat.
  5. Add sugar to the butter.
  6. Break eggs in a small bowl and whisk them a little. While stirring, add the eggs in the pot with the butter and sugar. Cook the butter, sugar and egg mix for a few minutes on low heat.
  7. Add the cocoa powder in the pot and mix well, making sure there are no lumps and the batter is smooth. Cook slow for a few minutes. The batter will thicken a little.
  8. Add the ready chocolate mixture in the bowl with the cookies and dried fruit. Mix everything well. The mixture will be quite dry as the chocolate batter is there to keep the cookies and dried fruit together.
  9. Put the mix in the prepared cake form pushing it down, not to leave gaps, and level.
  10. Cover the sides of the plastic wrap over the cake and push down a bit more to fill the cake form tightly.
  11. Put the cake in the fridge for at least a few hours or best overnight for it to set and harden.
  12. Enjoy!