After-Dinner Chocolate Salami ( to Serve With Coffee)

This log looks amazing cut into slices. Choose a good quality chocolate for this recipe. I use this recipe sometimes as a christmas log. Some amaretti biscuits are naturally gluten free because they are made with apricot kernels, sugar and egg whites so this can easily become a wheat free recipe.

• Ready In: 20 mins
• Yields: 25 slices

Ingredients

• 250  g chocolate, chopped
• 100  g butter
• 3  tablespoons honey
• 100  g  ground almonds
• 100  g  dried apricots, finely chopped
• 50  g  toasted chopped hazelnuts
• 200  g amaretti, finelly crushed

Directions

1. Place butter, chocolate and honey in a large microwavable bowl and microwave on medium for 3-4 minutes, then stir th mixture until smooth.
2. Stir the ground almonds, dried apricots, chopped nuts and 3/4 of teh amaretti into the chocolate mixture.
3. Leave to cool then chill 1-2 hours until the mixture is firm enough to hold its shape.
4. Place the mixture along a lenght of greaseproof paper, then wrap paper around it and shape like a log measuring about 25cm (10 inches) in lenght.
5. Chill the roll for 30 minutes.
6. Sprinkle the remaining amaretti on another greaseproof paper and use your hands to roll it over the amaretti crumbs so that is is coated evenly.
7. Wrap tightly with foil, twisting the ends to seal it. Chill 4 hours or overnight.
8. To serve, unwrap and slice into thin rounds with a sharp knife.
9. Serve with after dinner coffee.
10. keep in the fridge for 1-2 weeks or freeze for up to 1 months.