Chocolate salami
I know your thinking, what? Gross! But it’s really just a dark choc lately biscuit thing that looks salami like.
24 Spritz biscuits or some sort of butter shortbread type biscuits
350g of plain chocolate or half and half plain, milk if you prefer things a little less rich
225g of butter
60ml of amaretto
2 egg yolks
50g flaked almonds toasted and shredded lengthways
25g ground almonds
Grind the biscuits in a food processor, or if you don’t have one, do it the old fashioned way and put them in a bag and bang them with a rolling pin. Put the chocolate liquor and butter in a heat proof bowl and melt over some simmering water, stirring gently until it’s all dissolved together. When this is done add most of the biscuits leaving about a cupful spare and the flaked almonds. Leave this mixture for about an hour in the fridge until it is a little stiff.
Turn the chocolate mix out onto some grease proof paper, shape into a sausage shape, wrap it up and roll until it looks like salami and then freeze until it’s solid.
When ready to serve unwrap the salami and cover it in the rest of the biscuit mix with the ground almonds. Leave it out of the freezer for about an hour or until it is soft but not too soft and then cut into thin slices.
This is a very rich biscuit so thin slices are best, especially if you are going to serve it with something else, I would suggest putting it with a chocolate mousse infused with amaretto. (see recipe for chocolate rum mousse)
hehe.. i think it looks fine as long as the taste give more than its form.
Posted by: pudding recipe | 03/02/2011 at 05:53 PM