dolce salame

This is a recipe from my childhood. I remember it was almost always in the freezer during summer, but there were also good occasions to eat it in winter. It is also linked to my dear grandmother who passed away a year ago, it was her doing it for us, her grandchildren, as a treat.
It is really easy, there is no need of baking and it takes minutes. Older children can managed to do it almost completely by them selves, younger one can have fun helping with some stages.
M. helped mummy breaking the biscuits and cleaning the bowl with her fingers!




INGREDIENTS:

150 gr rich tea biscuits or digestive
70 gr butter
100 gr dark choccolate
50 gr sugar
1 egg

Leave the butter at room temperature for few minutes to become soft. In a large bowl break the buiscuits into small pieces. Melt the choccolate over a bowl of hot water, mix it untill is smooth and then leave it to cool down.
Work the butter with a spoon untill smooth, then add the sugar,the egg and the cool choccolate.
Add the mixture to the broken buiscuits and mix all together.
Put all the mixture onto a sheet of foil big enough to cover it, and with your hand give it the form of a long sausage.
Still in the foil, put your choccolate sausage in the freezer and leave it to rest for at least three hours.
To serve, slice the cake with a knife.