You may love chocolate or you may love salami, or maybe both..but have you ever tried a chocolate salami? Served as a sweet during the Christmas Holidays in Italy, this sweet treat will knock any chocolate lover into oblivion..with cocoa, butter and rum.. Easy to make and really easy to eat.

Salami di Cioccolata (Chocolate Salami)

copyright, 2009 The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holdiays & Special Occasions,Maria Liberati

Serves 8 persons

1 ½ cups crushed dry cookies- can be amaretti or vanilla wafers or savoiardi

½ cup sugar

1 tablespoon unsalted butter

1 tablespoon powdered cocoa

3 egg yolks

2 tablespoons of white rum

In a bowl, belnd egg yolks with sugar and butter until well blended into a cream. Add in sifted cocoa, crushed cookies,anda tablespoon of rum. Blend ingredients together well.. Place the ingredients in the form of a long salami in the center of a large piece of aluminum foil. Form the foil around the shape of the ’salami’. Leave in the refrigerator overnight or for 8 hours. Cut in slices when ready to serve.