Chocolate Salami (for Christmas)

Ingredients:
125g bar of 70% dark chocolate 

(+ 6 squares of galaxy chocolate)

2 1/2 oz caster sugar
1 1/2 oz olive oil spread

1 very large free range egg

1 tbsp cocoa powder

10 x rich tea biscuits (broken up into small pieces)

6 oz cashew nut and dried cranberry mix (chopped)

1 tbsp icing sugar 

(Cling film)

Method: 

Break up the chocolate and place in a microwavable bowl

Melt the chocolate in the microwave, stir so it is smooth and leave to cool slightly 

Cream together the sugar and the olive oil spread

Add the egg to the creamed sugar and beat in

Sieve the cocoa powder into the melted chocolate and stir in

Add the melted chocolate to the creamed sugar and mix together

Add the broken biscuits and chopped fruit and nut mix to the bowl and stir through so that everything is coated in chocolate

Place in the fridge for about 20 minutes to firm up slightly

Place 2 large sheets of cling film, one on top of the other, on the worktop ready

After 20 minutes take the mixture out of the fridge, scrap it out of the bowl into the middle of the cling film

Using the cling film roll the mixture into a sausage shape

Cover it tightly with the cling film, twisting tightly at each end to make the salami shape and return to the fridge for a few hours, ideally overnight.  

To serve, unroll the cling film and place the salami on to greaseproof/parchment paper

dust hands with icing sugar, pick up the salami and rub the surface with the icing sugar before placing back on the parchment paper until ready to slice and serve.

This will cut into about 10 portions

I added a bit of galaxy to the chocolate mix so that it wasn't too bitter