Easy Italian Chocolate Salami No-bake Dessert Recipe

This Italian Chocolate Salami Recipe, a.k.a. salame di cioccolato, is a tasty, classic Tuscan dessert that looks like a big salami! It’s a crunchy treat made with dark chocolate, cookies, dried cherries a touch of rum and is a no bake dessert.

Therefore, it’s NOT a meat salami coated in chocolate! My neighbor thought that at first. LOL!!

This traditional Italian dessert is especially wonderful to serve during the holiday season because sweet treats are in high demand and sometimes you want to compliment your cooking baking with something a bit easier with less prep time. Your guests will surely find it tasty.

Just like my Easy Dark Chocolate Christmas Almond Bark with Orange the prep is minimal and makes a great gift for neighbors and friends.

The refrigeration time is three hours but, you can expedite that by putting it in the freezer for an hour.

Italian Chocolate Salami Recipe

This is a delicious Italian dessert made of chocolate that you can make ahead. It’s a chocolate log

Because you can make this chocolate dessert ahead of time, it’s great for parties or the holiday season. It will be great to display on a holiday tray. Add some holly or Christmas greens.

What kind of cookies to use

Maria cookies, shown below, are good cookies to use to make chocolate salami because they’re hard, providing a crunchy texture, and don’t take away from the chocolate essence of this delicious Italian chocolate log.

You can find Maria cookies either in the cookie aisle or interntational aisle of your grocery store. They’re a Spanish and Italian style cookie

If you can’t find a similar cookie to Maria cookies, you may use vanilla waffers as they’re much easier to find grocery stores.

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What kind of chocolate to use

You can use the chocolate of your liking. If you prefer to using a higher density of cocoa, you may such as baking chocolate bars. However, if you choose to do that, you may want to omit the cocoa powder in this recipe or it will be too much.

You could even use milk chocolate however, it won’t resemble salami as much but, it’ll still be appealing because it’s chocolate afterall.

I melted the remainder of my son’s solid chocolate bunny from Easter to make this recipe. I weighed it first and then melted in a double boiler on my stove top. It came out perfect and was a good way to use up a pricy solid chocolate bunny that lost its luster somehow.

Chocolate Salami Recipe

Ingredients

*The full printable recipe is in the recipe card below where you can adjust the servings.

If this is your first time ever making this recipe, read the directions first to understand the steps. Although this recipe is not complicated, it will help you not make mistakes.

• dark chocolate
• powdered sugar
• softened butter
• dried cherries (optional)
• Maria cookies or vanilla wafers
• unsweetened cocoa powder
• egg
• white or dark rum (optional

Instructions Summary

First, break the Marie cookies into small one-inch pieces and place them in a large bowl and set aside.

Then, melt the dark chocolate.

Next, add the softened butter to a mixing bowl along with powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Add in the melted dark chocolate, rum and egg, blend and add the cocoa powder.  

Then, add the broken cookies and dried cherries tothe mixing bowl and stir well.

Next, get a long piece of plastic wrap and lie it on a baking sheet.

Then, form the melted chocolate mixture into a cylindrical shape or log on top of the plastic wrap. Refrigerate the chocolate log for three hours or one hour in the freezer.

Before serving, sprinkle powdered sugar on top and use a pastry brush to brush it. Use kitchen twine if you’d like to add more effect to it. 

Substitutions and Additions

• Add nuts: hazelnuts, almonds or pistachios work well.
• Subsitute orange peel or dried cranberries for the cherries.
• Subsitute Grand Marnier or Cointreau for the rum in the same quantity.

Storage

Store chocolate salami covered in plastic wrap in the refrigerator for a few days. You may freeze it in a plastic zipper bag for up to three months.

It’s a no bake chocolate dessert perfect for any occaision. Form it into a yule log or wreath for Christmas. You will love the ease of making this delicious, classic Italian dessert and enjoy serving it to your friends.

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I took this recipe to Weekend Potluck.