Chocolate salami
Italian and Portuguese chocolate dessert
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Chocolate salami is an Italian and Portuguese dessert made with 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.[1]
International variations
Asia
In Jordan, it is known as ليزي كيك, which is usually made with Marie biscuit.[2]
Elsewhere in the Arab World, it goes by soukseh or حلا القصدير, where its sometimes made with qishta.[3][4]
Europe
In Greece, chocolate salami is called mosaiko or kormos.[5]
In Estonia, it is known as Kirjukoer, which is commonly made out of cocoa powder, butter, crushed cookies, and jelly cubes.[6][7]
In Italy, it is called salame al cioccolato.
In Portugal, it is called salame de chocolate,[8] and is typically made using Marie biscuit.[9]
In Romania, it is called salam de biscuiți, and it may have originated during the 1970s or 1980s in the communist era.[10][11]
In Russia and the former Soviet Union, it is called шоколадная колбаса (shokoladnaya kolbasa), and became a widely popular homemade dessert during the Soviet era.[12][13]
South America
In Brazil, it is known as palha italiana. It is usually made with Marie biscuits added to a brigadeiro mixture.[15][16]
Similarly, in Argentina, it is called salame de chocolate.[17]
