This no-bake roll with biscuits and cocoa is a Romanian family favorite dessert! Inspired by this recipe with a couple of modifications.
Ingredients
- 200g butter biscuits (you can add more to taste - Leibniz type biscuits should work best)
- 50g cocoa powder
- 130g butter
- 100ml milk
- 125g sugar (either brown or white)
- 50g dark chocolate (at least 50% cocoa)
- rum essence (not necessary but it makes the taste much better - any Polish store should have it)
- vanilla sugar
- powdered sugar
- extra filling: nuts, almonds, raisins, cranberries, candied fruit, finely chopped Turkish delight, coconut flakes, or several of these!
Method
- Melt the butter and chocolate on low heat until fully melted. Make sure not to melt the butter more than necessary. Let the mixture cool down.
- Take 120g of biscuits and crush them until they turn into small crumbs (make sure they’re small, as they make the roll stick together).
- Melt the sugar in 90ml milk and add it to the crushed biscuits.
- Break up the rest of the biscuits into larger pieces and add them to the mix along with the cocoa powder, rum essence, and the butter-chocolate mixture (which should be cold).
- Add a few teaspoons of cold milk and start mixing until homogenous. If you can make a little ball from the mix without it crumbling, it has a good consistency - if not, add more milk.
- Sprinkle the powdered sugar on a board and start rolling the dough/mix on it, giving it a cylindrical, salami-like shape. Wrap in tin foil and make sure to twist the ends tight.
- Leave in the fridge for a minimum of 3-4 hours, preferably over the night. The more you leave it, the better it will be cut when you open it.
- Enjoy in 1.5 cm slices, not too thin!