Chocolate salami
Chocolate salami is an Italian, Romanian and Portuguese dessert composed of cocoa, broken biscuits, butter and sometimes alcohol such as port wine or rum. The dessert became popular across Europe and elsewhere, often losing alcohol as an ingredient along the way.
Chocolate salami is not a meat product. The appellation "salami" stems from physical resemblance. Like salami, chocolate salami is formed as a long cylinder and is sliced across into discs for serving. These discs are a brown, chocolaty matrix peppered with bright bits of biscuit. Some varieties also contain chopped nuts, such as almonds or hazelnuts and may be shaped like truffles.
International variations
Asia
In Jordan, it is known as ليزي كيك, which is usually made with Marie biscuit.Elsewhere in the Arab World, it goes by or حلا القصدير, where its sometimes made with qishta.
In Syria, it is known as سوكسية, and usually made with either walnuts or pistachios.
Europe
In Greece, chocolate salami is called mosaiko or kormos.In Bulgaria, it is known as Сладък Салам, and like the Russian Chocolate Sausage; uses walnuts.
In Cyprus, it is known as Doukissa.
In Czech Republic, it is known as vánoční salám or čokoládový salám and is often prepared with grated coconut.
In Denmark, it is known as kiksekage.
In Estonia, it is known as Kirjukoer, which is commonly made out of cocoa powder, butter, crushed cookies, and jelly cubes.
In Germany, it is known as Kalte Schnauze or Kalter Hund.
In Hungary, it is known in many names such as Keksz rolád, Keksz szalámi, Pöttyöske or Keksz tekercs.
In Italy, it is also called salame al cioccolato or, especially in Sicily, salami turcu.
In Latvia, this dessert goes by many names like šokolādes desa, saldā desa, saldā brunete, which is made out of cocoa, broken biscuits, butter, sugar, eggs, optionally jelly, nuts or dried berries and oftentimes with a bit of cognac.
In Lithuania, a similar dessert is called tinginys, which is made out of cocoa, broken biscuits, condensed milk and butter, and sometimes nuts, however alternative recipes exist under the same name of the dish.
In the Netherlands and Belgium, a similar dessert is called arretjescake.
In Poland, a similar dessert is called blok czekoladowy.
In Portugal, it is called salame de chocolate, and is typically made using Marie biscuit.
In Romania, it is called salam de biscuiți, and it may have originated during the 1970s or 1980s in the communist era.
In Russia, it is called шоколадная колбаса.
In Turkey, it is called mozaik pasta.
South America
In Brazil, it is known as palha italiana. It is usually made with Marie biscuits added to a brigadeiro mixture.In Uruguay, it is called salchichón de chocolate.
Similarly, in Argentina, it is called salame de chocolate.