Chocolate Salami
Chocolate Salami (or salame di cioccolato) is made of decadent dark chocolate mixed with nuts, white chocolate, cookies and a hint of orange. With no meat in sight and no cooking involved, they make great gifts and a delicious chocolate treat.
I was watching a show on the Food Network and they featured a confectioners store in Los Angeles where they sell chocolate salami. This reminded me that we did have something like this from a shop in Lake Como Italy a few years ago. Being that it is an Italian dessert and my husband being Sicilian, requested that I make one as soon as possible.
After watching the process I actually couldn’t believe how easy is was to make. A popular treat, they are sometimes made boozy with port wine rum, but I chose omit the booze and to flavor the chocolate with orange, a delicious combination.
I brought them over to a friends house and she said, ‘I just had chocolate bacon the other day and loved it’. She really thought it looked like real salami. The outside is dusted with powdered sugar, then tied up with kitchen twine, just like an authentic Italian salami. She was so fascinated, as well as enjoying the chocolatey goodness, I decided to give them as gifts.
How to Make Chocolate Salami – Step by Step
The chocolate and butter are melted and the nuts, crushed cookies, white chocolate and orange are mixed in then the mix is refrigerated. Once set, the chocolate is shaped into the salami shape and wrapped in plastic wrap to help retain the shape and refrigerated 1 last time to set.
The next 2 steps are what really make give them the salami look. The logs are dusted with powdered sugar to give the look of it wrapped in paper, then wrapped in kitchen twine. The plastic wrap creates ridges on the outside of the chocolate which mimics the ridges on the outside of a salami when it’s peeled. To wrap the salami in chocolate you start at one end with a knot leaving one end very long.
Turn the salami sideways towards you. Take the long end, loop over your left hand and under the salami towards you.
Then loop the long end through the loop and pull through with your left hand so it looks like this below. You then continue doing this down the length of the salami so it looks wrapped and tie the twine off at the end to secure.
Another tip to make it look like salami when sliced, chop the nuts, cookies and white chocolate different sizes to make it look like the chunks of fat that are in a salami. Any nuts you prefer can be used, I used pistachios and almonds.
I recently made a Christmas/festive version, White Chocolate Salami which has added dried cranberries that is a pretty contrast with the white chocolate. Delicious too!
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Chocolate Salami
Chocolate salami is made of decadent dark chocolate mixed with nuts, white chocolate, cookies and a hint of orange.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (150 grams) mixed unsalted nuts, I used pistachios and whole almonds
- 12 ounces (350 grams) semi sweet or miik chocolate
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons white chocolate, cut into small pieces
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated orange zest
- 1/4 cup (37 grams) plain vanilla cookies, broken into pieces
- Powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Add the nuts in a single layer to a large skillet over medium low heat. Toast the nuts turning every minute until slightly browned and toasted. Remove from pan and allow to cool.
- Add the chocolate and butter to a microwave-proof dish and microwave on high in 20 second increments, stirring in between until they have melted and well combined. Stir in the nuts, white chocolate, orange zest, and cookies. Cover the bowl and refrigerate the chocolate for 1 hour. After 1 hour remove the cooled chocolate.
- Spread a large piece of plastic wrap onto your surface.
- Take half of the chocolate and place in the center and form into a 7 1/2 x 1 1/2 inch log. Wrap the log with the plastic wrap, roll on the surface to create a smooth roll and twist ends tight to form a tight log.
- Repeat with the other half of the chocolate.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour until they are nice and firm.
- Remove from plastic wrap and roll in powdered sugar. Tie kitchen twine around for effect and cut into 1/4 inch slices.
- To store: Wrap well and it should keep for up to 2 weeks
Nutrition Information
Yield
10Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 188Total Fat 12gSaturated Fat 7gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 5gCholesterol 22mgSodium 21mgCarbohydrates 20gFiber 1gSugar 18gProtein 2g
This nutrition calculation is provided by Nutronix that is only a guideline and not intended for any particular diet.
28 Comments on “Chocolate Salami”
Does this have to be refrigerated after it is finished?
I would recommend wrapping well and refrigerating the chocolate salami and it will last up to 2 weeks.
Love this idea
How would you wrap this to give as a gift..being that you’re using icing sugar.
Thank you so much for your question. The chocolate salami is only lightly dusted with the powdered sugar, you could put them in cellophane bags and tie with ribbon. I hope this helps.
Can you Supply a brand name or a better description for the ingredient of butter cookies? I would like to make this soon for a get together with the girls. Thanks!
I used the brand Leibniz, they are a plain butter cookie, here they are:
https://www.amazon.com/Butter-Biscuits-Leibniz-Keks-200g/dp/B000LRIG3K
I used the brand Leibniz, they are a plain butter cookie. I think anything like a shortbread or golden Oreo (just the outside cookie part) would also work. Keebler also make a plain vanilla cookie as well as Nila.
I hope this helps and you love the salami.
Seriously! Can’t wait to make these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This looks so delicious! My husband has requested an M&M version so maybe I’ll try that. 🙂
I have seen a few recipes for chocolate salami. I’m definitely going to make some after reading your post. It sounds so delicious!!
This is the coolest chocolate treat ever
I absolutely adore this recipe! What a fun and fabulous idea. You could make a nice gift basket all based around this… with sweet wheat crackers, a cheese knife, nuts, a sweet cheese… like a cheese plate but all sweet. I love this! What a great gift that would be!
Yum. I love chocoley chocolate and I have some waiting for a project. I’ll have to check out some boozy recipes for this chocolate salami. Can you add dried fruits to it to? Can’t wait to try it.
I made this last year for gifts but your recipe looks SO good. Going to try this for sure!
What a great idea, I’m such a chocolate lover I would love to give this a try. Pinned/shared
Janette, I was really happy to see this recipe today because I saw a similar recipe in a magazine a few days ago but I didn’t think the instructions were so good. Yours are so easy to follow … thank you! I’m going to remember this one!!
Yummm! I love chocolate and pistachios. I can see this being a hit at our house.
Chocolate salami is almost a tradition in Romania so thank you for reminding me about this delicious dessert. So simple and yet so good!
This is truly your most genius and creative recipe. The pistachio and chocolate combination is so delicious.
This is SO freakin’ cool! I love this idea – so much fun! The orange zest sounds fantastic with the chocolate!
I had this years and years ago. Quite frankly I had forgotten, but you brought this to life. LOVE THIS! Fab!!
What a truly unique idea. And you can never go wrong with chocolate and orange.
Oh my gosh, this has all of my favorite things in it. Love it!
I love chocolate salami, but haven’t made it in a very long time! Yours looks delicious! Pinned 🙂
Thank you Mira 🙂
So very cool, never seen anything like it!!
I love this and spread some love. What a great idea!
This is fantastic!!! I have been looking for a reason to make this 🙂 And homemade gifts for the office just sounds like the PERFECT reason 🙂
Thank you Mila 🙂