DIVINE CHOCOLATE BISCUIT LOG

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If you like sweets food, then you will love this this impressive biscuit log.

It is also a great one for children to help you bake, and you only need to have a bit of this chocolate biscuit as it is quite rich.


Preparation Time: 15 minutes (plus time to refrigerate)
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Makes: About 20 servings

Ingredients
200 g packet of tea biscuits or plain biscuits
90 g unsalted butter
1 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped
¾ cup thickened cream
100 g dark chocolate (I used Lindt 70%)
2 tbsp sugar -I used coconut sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tbsp rum or rum essence

Method
Crush the biscuits into small pieces -I used a meat cleaver.  Mix these biscuits with the walnuts in a bowl.

Heat the cream and butter over low heat.  Add the sugar and stir.

Break the chocolate into pieces and add to the hot butter-cream mixture.  Stir until the chocolate melts, then add the cocoa powder and rum essence, and stir well to combine. 

Set aside for a few minutes to let the mixture cool slightly.

Add the chocolate mixture into the crushed biscuit-walnut mixture.


Mix thoroughly.  The mixture will now be thick and sticky.

Put the mixture on a piece of aluminium foil.

Roll into a sausage/salami shape, and close the foil.

Put in fridge for about 2 hours.  When ready to serve, unwrap the chocolate salami and lightly roll it in icing sugar to give it a look of real aged salami.  Slice and serve.


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