Chocolate Sausage Fast and Easy Dessert That Will Boost Your Serotonin
Dessert from my childhood.
Ask anyone whose childhood was spent in Soviet Union, if he/she knows what is "shokoladnaya kolbasa" and 99% he/she will know!
"Shokoladnaya Kolbasa" is a simple, easy dessert that was made out of ingredients available in Soviet Union. It is not a secret that there was no variety in food or in clothes in Soviet Union. Not because Soviet Union was a poor country, oh no! Soviet Union was a rich country, one of the richest in the world. But those in power kept Soviet people under poverty, on the same level, equally poor for one reason- to be able to rule them easily.
So, back to the dessert of my childhood.
Milk, eggs, sugar, cookies were among the short list of foods available for an average citizen.
I was so happy when my mother was making "shokoladnaya kolbasa" for me!
Chocolate Sausage, this is what it was. Now I call it Chocolate Salami, just for fun.
Classic recipe for Chocolate Sausage.
First I will tell you an old fashioned recipe with the ingredients that were available in my old country, but then I am going to share my own modification of this recipe.
The classic basic recipe for Chocolate Sausage calls for:
- Gallette Cookies like Maria, or Cookies like Lorna Doone, or tea biscuits 1/2 lb
- Cocoa powder, 3 Tb. spoons
- Sugar, 4 Tb. spoons
- Unsalted butter, 2 sticks
- Milk, 1/2 cup
- Dash of vanilla
Some classic recipes call also for an egg.
What to do:
- Crush the cookies- part of cookies crush almost to a powder, another part of cookies you should crush to small pieces.
- Mix cocoa powder and sugar in a pot. In the recipes that call for an egg, beat an egg and sugar until foamy, then mix in cocoa powder.
- Add milk and beat until cocoa powder smoothly dissolves.
- Cut butter into pieces and add to cocoa mixture.
- On a low heal make all the ingredients melt into smooth consistency.
- Add crushed cookies into the mixture and mix thoroughly. The mixture has to be thick. If it is not thick enough, just add more crushed cookies.
- Put the mixture on a piece of wax paper and roll as a sausage.
- Freeze in a freezer.
- Cut the chocolate sausage into pieces.
My own recipe for Chocolate Sausage.
Though I remember how we used to make "shokoladnaya kolbasa" way back in my old country, now I make it the easier way. Also, I add more ingredients.
- Two or three packs of Lorna Doone cookies or tea biscuits. Crush part of cookies into coarse powder, and part of the cookies just break into very small pieces.
- A cup of fried and crushed almonds and walnuts. You may use any nuts you like. Crush the nuts, or just buy crushed nuts.
- 1/2 cup of candied orange peels, or any candied fruits, cut in small pieces. Also, you may use raisins.
- Mix all the above in a bowl and add 4 Tb Spoons of chocolate milk powder.
- In a separate bowl melt two sticks of unsalted butter, open a can of sweet condensed milk and mix with melted butter.
- Mix into milk and butter all the cookies-nuts-chocolate powder mixture. The mixture has to be thick. If it is not thick enough, just add more crushed cookies.
- You may add several drops of brandy, rum or cognac.
- Put some of the mixture on a piece of wax paper and roll as a sausage. You should get several "sausages".
- Freeze in a freezer.
- Cut the chocolate sausage into pieces.
The process in pictures.
Definitely this dessert might add you some calories, but for sure it will boost your serotonin.
You will feel how your mood changes into happy state while you are eating this easy Russian dessert.
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