If you need to quickly prepare a dessert, and do not want to bother with pastries, chocolate sausage is the best option. The taste of this delicacy has been familiar to each of us since childhood, and today it has not lost its popularity.

Classic Chocolate Sausage

To make chocolate sausage tasty, you need to choose the right ingredients. This dish can be prepared on the basis of cocoa or chocolate.

  • In the first case, you should choose a powder without any additives. The usual, “Soviet” version is best suited.
  • It is necessary to take bitter chocolate and, if possible, it is better to purchase it by weight.
  • Now about the cookies. It should be friable and not contain any additives, such as coconut, chocolate chips and other things. The ideal option is a baked milk cookie.

You can cook this delicacy in various ways, but the recipe is considered a classic, according to which sausage was made from cookies initially.

For cooking you will need:

  • 180 g butter;
  • 420-450 g of cookies;
  • 170-200 g of sugar;
  • 120 g of dark chocolate.

Operating procedure:

  1. First you need to chop the cookies. You can simply break it into small pieces with your hands, and also use a rolling pin, a meat grinder or a blender.
  2. Cut the butter and chocolate into pieces, put in a bowl with thick walls and melt over low heat, gradually adding sugar.
  3. Pour the crumbs from the biscuit with a sweet mass and mix thoroughly. Then form sausages, wrap with cling film and put in the refrigerator.

Attention! Keep on the plate a sweet butter-chocolate mass until sugar is completely dissolved, otherwise the prepared sausage will “creak” on the teeth.

This process can be facilitated by turning sand into powder with a mixer, and only then add it to chocolate and butter.

Chocolate Cookies with Cocoa

When preparing such a dessert, many housewives use not bitter chocolate, but cocoa powder. And it does not spoil the taste of sausages.

In the process of work you will need:

  • 500 g of cookies;
  • 180 g butter;
  • 180 g of sugar;
  • 30-40 g of cocoa powder;
  • 50 ml of milk;
  • egg.

Order of preparation:

  1. Grind cookies to a crumb state.
  2. Cut the butter into slices and melt on a stove, and then add sugar, and, with constant stirring, wait until it is completely dissolved.
  3. Pour cocoa into a pan, pour milk, stir the mixture until smooth and remove from the stove.
  4. Pour the icing into the crumbs from the cookies and knead, then add the egg and bring the mass to homogeneity.
  5. Form the sausages of the desired size, wrap with cling film and put in the refrigerator.

Read also: cookie sausage - a recipe as in childhood

Attention! You can add an egg to the sausage only after the chocolate has cooled slightly, otherwise it will curl up and turn into unappetizing “flakes” when exposed to high temperature.

How to make a treat with condensed milk

You can make this dessert without milk. Chocolate sausage from cookies with condensed milk will certainly turn out equally delicious.

For cooking you will need:

  • can of condensed milk;
  • 420-450 g of friable cookies;
  • 170-180 g of oil;
  • 50-70 g of cocoa powder or chocolate.

Procedure:

  1. Grind cookies, add condensed milk and knead until smooth.
  2. Cut the butter into pieces and melt on a stove, then add cocoa powder. If chocolate is used, it is put immediately.
  3. Pour the hot liquid to the liver and condensed milk, stir, roll the sausages and put in the cold.

To make the taste of chocolate sausage from cookies with condensed milk more saturated, you can add chopped walnuts or hazelnuts to the composition.

Cooking from cookies with milk and candied fruit

Candied fruits will be a great addition to the main components of chocolate sausage. This component can be chosen any, depending on your own taste.

For cooking you will need:

  • 480-500 g of cookies;
  • 250 ml of milk;
  • 110 g of sugar;
  • 50-70 g of butter;
  • 50-60 g of cocoa;
  • 120-150 g candied fruit.

Work process:

  1. Grind cookies and candied fruits, mix until smooth.
  2. Heat milk with sugar on a stove, add butter, and when the mixture melts, pour cocoa and mix.
  3. Pour liquid into cookies and candied fruits, stir with a spatula, and when the mass cools down a bit, form portions. Wrap the finished dessert and wrap it in the cold.

Tip. You can make a beautiful chocolate sausage by taking marmalade of different colors instead of candied fruit. Such a treat will surely appeal to children.

Sausage with nuts

For such a dessert, chopped walnuts or hazelnuts can be used. Some housewives prefer to lay peanuts.

In the process of work you will need:

  • 400 g cookies;
  • 150 g of nuts;
  • 120 g of sugar;
  • 180 g of oil;
  • 50-80 g cream;
  • cocoa powder.

Sequencing:

  1. Grind cookies and nut kernels, mix in a deep bowl.
  2. Put butter in a saucepan, pour cream, add sugar and warm on a stove until it dissolves.
  3. Add to the mass of cocoa, mix, and then pour it to the liver with a nut.
  4. Form sausages, wrap in a film and send to the cold.

Chocolate sausage with nuts will be ready for use in 2-3 hours.

Dessert with Chocolate and Dried Fruits

To create this delicacy, you can take raisins, prunes or dried apricots, but the taste of the dish will turn out more vivid if you make assorted dried fruits.

To work, you will need:

  • 350 g cookies;
  • 200 g of dried fruits;
  • can of condensed milk;
  • 180 g butter;
  • 50 g of cocoa powder.

Procedure:

  1. Grind cookies and add dried fruits to it.To make the dish more homogeneous, you can skip dried apricots and prunes through a meat grinder.
  2. Add the condensed milk to the mass and mix until smooth.
  3. Melt the butter on the stove, add the cocoa powder, and then pour the prepared ingredients with this mixture.

Stir the mixture until smooth, form portions and put in the refrigerator.

On a note. Unusual will turn out a chocolate sausage if to replace cookies with puffed rice.

Biscuit crumb treat

After making a dessert from a biscuit, there are often “wastes” of baked dough. In this case, you can use them to create sausages, or you can specially purchase cakes.

For work you will need:

  • 500 g biscuit;
  • 180-200 g of oil;
  • 150 ml of milk;
  • 120 g of any nuts;
  • 120 g of dark chocolate.

Procedure:

  1. Grind the biscuit and nuts, put the ingredients in a deep bowl.
  2. Boil milk and melt butter and chocolate in it.
  3. Pour the resulting mass to nuts and biscuit, mix and make sausages.

Tip. To give the biscuit extra softness, you can add 30-40 grams of cognac or rum to the sausage.

But to do this is permissible only if the treat is prepared for adults.

Original dessert with pistachios.

When you want to make an original dessert from available products, you should use this recipe.

For cooking you will need:

  • 450-480 g of cookies;
  • 120 g of pistachios;
  • 120 g of sugar;
  • 180 g of oil;
  • 120 g of dark chocolate;
  • sesame seeds.

Cooking process:

  1. Crush the cookies, chop the pistachios and pour them into a bowl.
  2. Melt the mixture of butter, dark chocolate and sugar on the stove, pour to the prepared components.
  3. Knead the mass, form sausages, sprinkle them with sesame seeds, lay them on polyethylene and put in cold.

To decorate the dessert, you can use not sesame seeds, but multi-colored coconut flakes.

How to make chocolate sausage without butter

Butter, which is part of chocolate sausage, can not be attributed to the category of light products. Some housewives try to lower the level of fat in the dish and take margarine. But there is another way, namely, the use of condensed milk instead of butter.

If it was not possible to purchase it boiled, you can do it yourself.

  • At least one and a half hours will be required to prepare this component.
  • Moreover, you will have to make sure that the can is constantly covered with water, and add fluid if necessary, because otherwise it will simply burst.
  • And at the end of cooking, you will need to place the jar in a container with cold water, so that the contents cool faster.

So, to make this dessert without oil, you will need these products:

  • 400 g cookies;
  • a can of boiled condensed milk;
  • 150 g of dark chocolate;
  • 50 g almonds.

Cooking order:

  1. Open a can of condensed milk and put the contents in a bowl.
  2. Grind biscuits and nuts, mix with "dumpling".
  3. Divide the chocolate into small pieces and melt in a water bath.
  4. Combine all prepared components, mix thoroughly and form portions, and then place them in a cold place, wrapping with cling film.

On a note. If you do not want to spend time preparing chocolate, you can take condensed milk with the addition of cocoa or coffee.

You don’t need to cook it, but in order for the sausage to get the desired consistency, you need to put more cookies or add a handful of walnuts to the specified number of components.

Option for dieters

Desserts prepared in accordance with the above recipes are quite high-calorie dishes with a high content of cholesterol. For this reason, they should not be consumed by people who monitor their weight, as well as those who suffer from diseases of the digestive system.

But what if you want to enjoy a delicious chocolate sausage? In this case, you should try a low-calorie dessert based on low-fat yogurt and dark chocolate.

To create a dish you will need:

  • 250-300 g of cookies;
  • 50 g of sugar (it is better to take cane);
  • 350-400 ml of yogurt 0%;
  • 100 g of natural chocolate.

Operating procedure:

  1. Divide the cookies into two parts. Break the first with your hands, grind the second to the state of crumbs. This is done so that the sausage acquires the desired consistency.
  2. Using a fine grater, turn chocolate into chips.
  3. Pour yogurt into a blender bowl, add sugar, pour crushed chocolate and beat until smooth.
  4. Pour the cookies with the resulting mixture and mix thoroughly.
  5. Form sausages and send to the cold.

To facilitate the work process and not to mess with the grater, you can take cocoa powder instead of natural chocolate.