Cold Chocolate Salami alla Modicana

Chocolate Salami is a great cold chocolate recipe that is perfect for chocolate lovers in summer and is an old time favourite with kids. You can find it in many recipe books dedicated to Sicilian cuisine, but it is also popular in other parts of Italy and in Portugal as well.
I still remember when I was a child and my grandmother took the silver roll out of the fridge, my mouth watered as she opened the foil and the cold mixture of chocolate and biscuits showed up. The special thing about my grandmother recipe is that she substituted common cocoa powder with Bonajuto's Vanilla or Cinnamon Modica style chocolate.

Enjoy this family recipe:

250 gr biscuit
100 gr butter
100 gr sugar
100 gr cocoa or Modica's ground chocolate (vanilla or cinnamon flavour)
2 eggs
(if using Modica’s chocolate grounded, skip the sugar)

Separate the egg yolk and the whites into two bowls, then whip the egg whites with a mixer, or by hand with a wire balloon whisk, until fluffy. In the other bowl add the rest of the ingredients: soften butter, sugar, cocoa powder and the biscuits broken into small pieces. Finally, gently fold the beaten egg whites in the mixture.
Lay out a long sheet of oven or foil paper (50/70 cm), roll the mixture onto the paper and mould into a salami shape length wise.
Bring the salami to one side of the paper and start to roll the paper around the log firmly, once completely rolled, twist the ends and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
It is preferable to have a 5/7cm diameter to serve well proportioned slices. Take the salami
out of refrigerator 20 min before cutting slices and serving. It is great accompanied with vanilla ice-cream.

This recipe is great fun to prepare with children, I often use it in my families or children dedicated classes and it is always a lot of fun.