Simple Christmas Treat!

Today I brought in a delicious French Christmas treat that was so easy to make, and it was a big hit with my students.  It's called a Saucisson LU au Chocolat (rough translation: chocolate sausage), and it's made with French butter biscuits (LU brand preferred) and dark chocolate.  I couldn't find the LU brand at my local grocery store, so I used a German brand (below) instead.   

First, you crush the butter biscuits.  I just crushed them with my hands, which I actually found to be quite therapeutic :).  Then you mix up a chocolate sauce and pour it over the crushed biscuits.

After mixing well, you'll have a mixture that looks like this:

Pour it onto foil, and roll it up into a "sausage" shape.

Put the sausage in the refrigerator overnight.  When you take it out the next day, it looks like this:

Slice with a knife and serve!

As is typical of French desserts, the saucisson is not overly sweet, but it's very chocolaty and I love the crunch of the crushed cookies.  I was touched when one of my students brought her mother to my classroom after school today.  She had saved a piece of the treat for her mom, and both of them wanted to make sure they could read the recipe correctly, which I had given to my students in French, of course. 

I can't remember where I got this recipe, but I know it came from a French woman's recipe box.  Here it is:

Ingredients

•  one package LU butter biscuits
• 3.5 ounces dark chocolate
• 11 T sugar
• 1 stick of butter
• 3 eggs yolks
• 1/2 an egg white

Recipe

• Crush the butter biscuits
• Melt the butter & chocolate, then add the sugar and stir
• whisk in the eggs yolks & white
• pour the mixture over the biscuits & mix well
• pour the mixture onto foil and roll up into a sausage
• leave in the refrigerator overnight

Note:  the eggs in this recipe are not really cooked, so I made sure to keep the saucisson in a cooler when I brought it to school for students.