Chocolate salami (salame al cioccolato, a popular Italian dessert)

Ingredients (6/8 servings)

dry biscuits – 300 g

butter – 150 g

sugar – 100 g

bitter cocoa powder – 60 g

2 egg yolks

optional: rhum liquer – 2 tbsps

Preparation

Leave the butter at room temperature until it becomes soft. Meanwhile crumble the biscuits with your hands and with a meat pounder if necessary.

Whisk the egg yolks in a bowl with a fork, add the sugar and stir well until you get a creamy mixture. Add the softened butter and sieve the cocoa powder, so that no lumps are formed, add the rum and the crumbled biscuits and mix well.

Unroll a piece of aluminium on the table and put the mixture right in the centre. Roll the compound into a salami shape and wrap it in the aluminium foil. Place in the fridge for at least 4 hours. Cut it into slices and serve.