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...perhaps you can help me where a quick Google hasn't. Last night, at the party for the end of my piano class, one of the students brought some cookies that she'd made. She's Romanian, and said they were Romanian, but she's seen variants from Greece and other Eastern European countries.
The dough was rolled into logs and sliced. I do not know if they're non-bake refrigerator cookies or if they were baked at all - they are soft. Here is a photo of the ones I took home.
She said they contained: animal crackers, walnuts, cocoa, rum, margarine (although you could use butter), and sugar. Perhaps she mentioned a few more ingredients, but I don't remember.
So. Look familiar to anyone? Recipe? Or even just a name for them?
ETA; Thanks to commenters, it seems this is a variant of sweet salamy/salami. Posting a few quick links to similar recipes under the cut so I can find them later (I haven't found one recipe that includes everything she mentioned, as the closest ones leave the nuts out, but I think I could fake it well enough).
It seems every European country from Russia to Portugal has their own version of it, too.
http://www.grouprecipes.com/90569/russian-chocolate-salami.html
http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/123822-Mother-In-Law-s-Sweet-Salami- <-- has walnuts, no booze
http://www.dreamofitaly.com/public/741.cfm
http://italophiles.com/salamedolce.htm
http://www.wfyi.org/pdfs/aind1904_SalamiDolce.pdf
http://www.mangiabenepasta.com/italian_cookies_02.html
http://www.algarvebuzz.com/chocolate-salami-portuguese-salami-de-chocolate/
The dough was rolled into logs and sliced. I do not know if they're non-bake refrigerator cookies or if they were baked at all - they are soft. Here is a photo of the ones I took home.
She said they contained: animal crackers, walnuts, cocoa, rum, margarine (although you could use butter), and sugar. Perhaps she mentioned a few more ingredients, but I don't remember.
So. Look familiar to anyone? Recipe? Or even just a name for them?
ETA; Thanks to commenters, it seems this is a variant of sweet salamy/salami. Posting a few quick links to similar recipes under the cut so I can find them later (I haven't found one recipe that includes everything she mentioned, as the closest ones leave the nuts out, but I think I could fake it well enough).
It seems every European country from Russia to Portugal has their own version of it, too.
http://www.grouprecipes.com/90569/russian-chocolate-salami.html
http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/123822-Mother-In-Law-s-Sweet-Salami- <-- has walnuts, no booze
http://www.dreamofitaly.com/public/741.cfm
http://italophiles.com/salamedolce.htm
http://www.wfyi.org/pdfs/aind1904_SalamiDolce.pdf
http://www.mangiabenepasta.com/italian_cookies_02.html
http://www.algarvebuzz.com/chocolate-salami-portuguese-salami-de-chocolate/