This chocolate salami is rich, crunchy, and so unbelievably easy to make! It needs no baking and comes together in minutes, and tastes like a luxurious chocolate treat with minimal effort!
A mix of smooth chocolate, crispy cookies, and nuts gives every slice that perfect contrast of textures without feeling heavy. It's a wonderful make-ahead dessert for entertaining, gifting, or anytime snacking when that craving hits! Simple, fun, and always a crowd-pleaser - this is the kind of recipe you'll find making again and again!
Looking for more easy Holiday chocolate-y desserts? Try my rocky road chocolate bark, chocolate lava cake, and chocolate peppermint fudge!
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What Is Chocolate Salami?
Chocolate salami is a popular Italian dessert, where it is known as salame di cioccolato or salame dolce. It is equally common in Portugal, Sicily, and Russia, where it’s known as salame de chocolate, salame turco, and shokoladnaya kolbasa.
In all its incarnations, the sweet roll owes its name to its shape, which looks like salami, which is just a mosaic of nuts and cookies ensconced in chocolate and rolled in powdered sugar.
Why You'll Love This Recipe
✨ You need just simple pantry ingredients and no complicated steps to make this delicious chocolate salami!
✨Quick to prepare with no cooking! Just a couple of minutes to melt the chocolate in the microwave or a double-boiler, that's it!
✨ It's a fabulous make-ahead Christmas treat. It stays well in the refrigerator for 2-3 weeks.
✨Gorgeous and festive to look at, this salami de chocolate is perfect for holiday baking and gifting!
Recipe Ingredients
Cookies: There’s just one rule with the chocolate biscuit roll. Use plain, crunchy cookies, not rich, soft ones. I prefer digestives, but graham crackers, vanilla wafers, tea biscuits, Marie biscuits, or even amaretti cookies will do.
Nuts: Pistachios were my pick for their visual appeal and delicate flavor that plays in harmony with the chocolate and cookies.
But by no means limit yourself to them. Play around with pecans, peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, or cashews - whatever is easily available to you.
Milk: I used whole milk, but you can use cream for a richer taste.
Butter: For that rich, creamy taste! I used salted butter. Please add a pinch of salt if using unsalted butter.
Chocolate: My recipe for no-bake chocolate salami has 55% dark chocolate chips, and this was sweet enough for us.
That said, pander to your taste. Choose the type of chocolate that you enjoy, as long as it is of high quality, and stay away from compound chocolate.
Add-ins: There are tons of ways to accent the flavor of these salami cookies. A dash of rum or brandy. A splash of coffee or liqueur. All are brilliant options. Include them along with the milk.
Please see the recipe card below for full information about the ingredients and quantities.
How To Make Chocolate Salami
Step 1: Place your biscuits in a Ziploc bag and roughly crush them using your hands or a rolling pin. You’re looking for small to medium chunks, not fine powder.
Step 2: Melt chocolate chips and butter in a microwave or double-boiler.
Step 3: Pour in milk and stir until you have a homogenous, smooth mixture.
Step 4: Stir in crushed biscuits and some chopped pistachios.
Step 5: Tip the mixture onto a sheet of parchment paper, shape it into a cylinder, and wrap the chocolate salami tightly in the paper.
Step 6: Twist the ends to seal it and refrigerate till the salami cake is solid and set.
Final step: Dust icing sugar, slice, and serve.
Pro Tips
- Make sure you start with room-temperature ingredients.
- Chocolate salami is meant to be textured: crispy, crunchy, and chocolatey. So don’t crush the cookies into a fine powder. Keep them chunky.
- You can melt the chocolate in a microwave or a double boiler, as I did for my almond butter cups.
- When you’re rolling the chocolate into a log to make it compact and tight, so there are no pockets of air.
- If you want a neater look, wrap tightly in plastic wrap or baking paper.
- This is a no-cook, no-bake chocolate biscuit roll, but it does need to rest in the refrigerator. Give it at least 4 hours or more. Trust me, it’ll be easier to cut, and the salami cookies won’t crumble.
- They pack well, which makes them perfect for Christmas cookie swaps or just homemade holiday gifts. Put in baggies, tie with a string, and add to the basket!
How To Serve And Store
Coat the chocolate salami with icing sugar and serve thick slices as-is or with whipped cream after dinner. Or you can serve it as a snack with a cup of tea, coffee, a glass of mulled wine, or a cup of classic hot cocoa.
Store the no-bake chocolate salami in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 to 3 weeks. You can even freeze the uncut salami dessert for a month. Thaw in the fridge before you cut and serve.
📖 Recipe
Easy Chocolate Salami Recipe
Ingredients
- 30 Digestive cookies
- 1 1/4 cups Dark chocolate, room temperature I used 55% dark chocolate
- 6 tbsp Butter, room temperature
- 1/3 cup Milk, lukewarm
- 1/2 cup Pistachios
Instructions
- Place the cookies in a ziplock and crush them, using a rolling pin.
- Make sure the cookies are broken into chunks and not completely crushed. Set aside.
- Roughly chop the pistachios and keep aside.
- In a large bowl, melt the chocolate and butter together until melted and smooth.
- Add the milk and mix well.
- Add the crushed cookies and chopped pistachios. Mix well.
- Spread the mixture on plastic wrap or parchment paper and shape it into a log. Twist the ends of the wrap tightly, like a candy wrapper.
- Place the log in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours or until solid.
- When the chocolate has set, remove the paper and dust the log liberally with icing sugar.
- Slice and serve. Enjoy!
- You can store sliced chocolate salami in an air-tight container in the refrigerator.
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