Rocky Road!
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A classic no-bake treat that everyone will enjoy – fill your rocky road with everything you love and ENJOY!
Rocky road
Now, I know for a fact you guys love a rocky road recipe, like my Kinder Bueno rocky road, Terry’s chocolate orange rocky road, Biscoff rocky road, and my Mint Aero rocky road. As you can tell, I also love myself a rocky road recipe!
However, I have had many many requests for my recipe for a ‘classic’ rocky road! I wouldn’t say that this is entirely classic as I add in cadburys Crunchie bars because they’re delicious and I am truly addicted to them.. but it has all the other bells and whistles of chocolate, syrup, butter, marshmallows and biscuits!
Classic bakes
I know that rocky road is a classic treat in many coffee shops, in many bakeries, and in many homes.. but that hasn’t stopped SO many of you from asking for this recipe, so you can have your favourite treat at home… so TA DAAA!
I adore making other classic traybakes like brownies, blondies, a tiffin, or even a cookie bar… but I would genuinely say rocky road is one of the easiest, and one of the best. We all know I adore anything classic so here is one of my favourite recipes ever.
I obviously have an absolute addiction to no bake treats, as demonstrated by all of my cheesecakes, but traybakes and such are no different! I have many other no bake traybake recipes – such as all of my tiffin recipes, my Malteser millionaires shortbread, and all of my Rice Krispie treat recipes!
Traybakes are SO easy to make and make life so much easier if you want to make something simple, and not worry about it. The only way it can go wrong is for the chocolate to split if you heat it too much – and even that is difficult to do!
Base mixture
So when it comes to the base mixture of a rocky road, it can go a few different ways. A lot of people, understandably, make a rocky road with just melted chocolate. It’s the basic way, and I get it, but it makes it absolutely solid and harder to cut up and eat, and I also think it means you need to use more chocolate.
I make mine a little differently as I want to change the texture and flavour slightly, and this is my favourite way to do it:
- Chocolate – for this recipe, I use milk chocolate, but a mixture of milk and dark would work well, or all dark. I would avoid white chocolate
- Syrup – golden syrup is such a key ingredient for my rocky road, and I adore it. It’s always in my cupboard as I use it so much in baking
- Butter – it’s important to use a block butter for rocky road, as a baking spread or margarine may make the mixture split
Filling
This recipe is so easy and amazingly customisable, you can include your favourite dried fruit, biscuits, chocolate bars, even mix up the chocolate! You can really have fun with this recipe and make it your own – perfect for any cravings you have and perfect for the whole family!
- Marshmallows – I tend to use mini marshmallows in my rocky road as I love a mini marshmallow, but using a regular sized marshmallow does also work. The only thing is you’ll use less as the weight is different per marshmallow
- Biscuits – you can use any biscuit, but I love using a digestive. I love the super crunchy and ever so slightly salty flavour of a digestive
- Chocolate – this is where I am slightly different to most rocky roads… I add some chopped up crunchie bars. This is typically where you would add glacé cherries, but I’m not always a huge fan, and I also just adore crunchie bars. You can add whatever you like for the filling.
Tips & Tricks
- This recipe lasts 4-5+ days in the fridge of room temperature
- You can freeze this for 3+ months
- You can use any filling you want, this recipe is just an example of what I like
- I use this 9″ square tin for my traybake recipes
- I used this dark chocolate
- I used this milk chocolate
- I used this baking parchment
Rocky Road
Ingredients
- 400 g milk chocolate
- 125 g golden syrup
- 125 g unsalted butter
- 100 g mini marshmallows
- 200 g digestive biscuits (chopped)
- 200 g Cadburys Honeycomb Crunchie bar (chopped)
Instructions
- Line a 9" square tin with parchment paper and leave to the side.
- In a large bowl, add in the chocolate, golden syrup, unsalted butter and melt on a low heat over a double boiler, or in the microwave on short bursts until fully melted then stir until smooth!
- Once its melted and combined, add in the mini marshmallows, chopped digestive biscuits, and chopped Crunchie bars and fold together evenly.
- Pour your mixture into the tin and spread until it’s even.
- Refrigerate for at least 2 hours until set, chop up, and enjoy!
Notes
- I really would recommend using just milk or dark chocolate for this as it melts better than white chocolate, and the white chocolate might mix/split when mixing it with the golden syrup or butter!
- If you did want to use dark chocolate instead of milk, just straight swap the chocolate quantity wise!
- You can easily half the recipe for less, but these are so moreish you will want the large piece! Trust me!
- I used this 9″ square masterclass tin
- I used this dark chocolate
- I used this milk chocolate
- I used this baking parchment
ENJOY!
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Are they vegetarian?
If I doubled ingredients could I bake this in a 9” x 12” tray bake tin?
Just made these , how long will they keep for in the fridge
Unfortunately 2 batches, different melting techniques,
both succumbed to the dreaded split. Still given 4 stars as I know it works well when you don’t use all supermarket
regular milk chocolate. Go some dark, higher quality or
cooking chocolate.
The perfect rocky road.
For anyone struggling I used dr oetker chocolate (50% dark, 50% milk) and melted it in a bowl over a pan of boiling water on a low heat, stirring pretty much constantly with an spatula and removing as soon as it was melted (probably only took a minute, 2 max).
I also just threw it into a 12×8 inch dish with no need to increase the recipe, it was plenty thick enough.
I had 2 extra crunchies so pressed them into the top at the end which worked too.
If you want to use sultanas and cherries how would you incorporate this into the recipe? Thank you
You can either just add some in, or replace some of the other bits like the marshmallows with some so the covering of chocolate is the same x
Hi! Do you need to temper the callebaut chocolate that you have used
Would this work without marshmallows? If so would you replace with any extra of the other ingredients or just omit? Thanks 😊
If I do not want to add the Chunchie bars can I sub it for more digestive biscuit so it’s more traditional ? I take it the mixture would be too wet if I didn’t add in more digestive biscuit & took out the crunchie ?
I substitute crunchie with cadburys fudge bars chopped and the kids love it
Damn it, put the chocolate in, then read the notes about not putting white chocolate in. I should have known, I’m sure it will be nice but won’t make that mistake again.
I made this for the first time and used Supermarket chocolate, it was perfect. Can’t wait to make the next one. Thank you
I don’t really understand what’s going on but I have tried to make this rocky road 3 times and it split each time. I read through all the previous comments for advice and tried all the different methods (using supermarkets own chocolate, controlling the heat, adding the chocolate later, adding milk to save it) but nothing helped. Any further advice?
Hiya! How are you melting it? It sounds as though it may be getting far too hot! x
Try boiling water. Mine split three times also, googled and said add a teaspoon of boiling water and a fine and keep stirring. It worked perfectly
Don’t know what I did wrong, I made this for the first time. I can’t get it to set hard. It has set but is more chewy
Can you use milk chocolate cooking chocolate
Yes absolutely! Enjoy! x
Hi Jane. Could you please advise me on the quantities of ingredients for a 9×13 tin. I’m thinking 1/2 extra ir do you think 1/3 extra would be enough?
Hi Jane. Just wondering if you know how much extra quantities of ingredients I would need to make this in a 9×13 square tin.
I tried melting milk chocolate and golden syrup. But it all came together like cement. And I had to throw it out.
Hi can the rocky road be frozen once cooled and set?
Yes absolutely, for up to 3 months! Hope this helps x
Hi Jane,
Just wondering, if I don’t put the crunchie in do I have to alter the amount of any of the other ingredients or can I just do the same recipe but without it?
Hiya1 Completely up to you – whatever you prefer! x