Chocolate salami is an Italian and Portuguese dessert made with cocoa, broken biscuits, butter and sometimes alcohol such as port wine or rum. The dessert became popular across Europe and elsewhere, often losing alcohol as an ingredient along the way.
In Jordan, it is known as , which is usually made with Marie biscuit.
Elsewhere in the Arab World, it goes by or , where its sometimes made with qishta.
In Greece, chocolate salami is called or .
In Estonia, it is known as Kirjukoer, which is commonly made out of cocoa powder, butter, crushed cookies, and jelly cubes.
In Italy, it is called .
In Portugal, it is called , and is typically made using Marie biscuit.
In Romania, it is called , and it may have originated during the 1970s or 1980s in the communist era.
In Russia and the former Soviet Union, it is called (shokoladnaya kolbasa), and became a widely popular homemade dessert during the Soviet era.
In Turkey, it is called .
In Lithuania, it is called Tingynis.
In Brazil, it is known as . It is usually made with Marie biscuits added to a brigadeiro mixture.
Similarly, in Argentina, it is called .