Dark Chocolate Rocky Road

🤍 Recipe Highlights

I have summarised everything that you will come to know and love (LOVE ❤) about the recipe in the points below:

• Easy technique: we use the microwave to melt the chocolate and then we simply pour that over the fillings and stir to combine. We only need to take very basic steps and a straightforward manner to bring the recipe together.
• Versatile: whether you want to use your rocky road for gift giving, a bake sale, Christmas party plate or other, it will work. This is a very flexible recipe and it works for a number of different occasions.
• Simple ingredients: you will be able to get everything you need to make the recipe from your local grocery store. They are year round available ingredients that will be easy to get your hands on.
• Popular: I don't think I have ever met someone who doesn't enjoy a piece or 2 of rocky road from time to time. It is much loved and appreciated by people of all ages, young and young at heart 😉👌.
• Taste and texture: there is the smooth rich dark chocolate, the soft pillowy marshmallows, chewy red candy and robust green pistachios. The combination is a winning one which will easily tick a lot of your boxes.

🥗 Ingredients

The photo below is to show you everything you need to make the recipe. Please refer to the printable recipe card for specific ingredient measurements as well as detailed instructions.

As you can see the recipe calls for:

• Pistachio nuts: these lovely robust green nuts provide a fantastic colour contrast with the dark chocolate and bright red raspberry lollies.
• Coconut: this is desiccated coconut and you will find it in the cooking aisle with the dried fruits and nuts.
• Raspberry lollies: bright and adding pops of colour to the rocky road these will be in the lolly aisle.
• Marshmallows: these soft sweet pink and white marshmallows are an almost essential ingredient to use when making rocky road!
• Dark chocolate: these are cooking chocolate melts which are recommended over eating chocolate as they melt differently.

Tasty Tip: I like to provide you with a number of substitutions and variations giving you an array of options when making the recipe. If in doubt of any of the above ingredients, or wanting alternatives, read this section (further below) before jumping into the instructions on how to make the recipe which are coming next 😉👌.

🍳 Instructions

Here are the step by step instructions to make the recipe. We start by preparing the marshmallows. You will need a knife and cutting board for this initial step.

• Slice the marshmallows (Photo 1)
• Add them to a bowl (Photo 2)
• Slice the raspberry lollies (Photo 3)
• Add them to a bowl (Photo 4)

👩‍🍳 How to Make Dark Chocolate Rocky Road

We start to make the rocky road by chopping the marshmallows in halves. To do so, use a knife and cutting board and slice 4-5 marshmallows at a time.

Once done, transfer the marshmallow halves into a large mixing bowl like you see in the photo above.

Next use the same knife and chopping board to slice the raspberry lollies in halves and once done add these to the marshmallows like you see above.

• Add the pistachio nuts (Photo 5)
• Then add the coconut (Photo 6)
• Melt the chocolate (Photo 7)
• Combine and then into tin (Photo 8)

Next add the pistachios to the mixing bowl, followed by the coconut.

Once done, give them a stir to combine.

Now we are ready to melt the chocolate. To do so add the dark chocolate melts to a heatproof jug. Place the jug into the microwave on high for 1 minute. Once the minute is up, remove and stir the chocolate. Then return it to the microwave for another minute and once that is up remove and stir. Next place it back into the microwave for 1 further minute.

Then pour it over the top of the fillings in the mixing bowl and stir until the wet rocky road is consistently combined.

When it is, use a spatula to transfer the wet mixture into the prepared lined tin and place it into the fridge for at least an hour.

🍽 Serving Suggestions

Once the rocky road has set you can remove it from the fridge and place the tin onto a chopping board. Then grab the paper overhang and lift the rocky road up and out of the tin.

Discard the paper and then use a knife to cut the square into 4 smaller squares. Then cut these squares also into 4 smaller squares. Using this method allows you to cut the large square into 16 pieces of rocky road.

Of course if you want to cut the pieces into longer lengths for gift giving and what not, go right ahead my friend 😉👍.

👍 How to Guide

How to Store

Store the rocky road in a sealed, airtight container in the fridge. It will keep for 2-3 weeks.

😉 Substitutions and Variations

Here are my sub ins and outs that you might be thinking about as you read the post and I will tell you if I think they will work or why they won't:

• You can use peanuts in place of the pistachio nuts if you wish to (equivalent amount).
• You can use mini marshmallows in place of the larger size marshmallows. In which case you don't need to chop them, simply add them to the bowl.
• If you want to use milk chocolate or white chocolate in place of the dark chocolate you can.
• Or you can use shredded coconut in place of the desiccated coconut.
• You can use snake lollies or red licorice pieces finely chopped in place of the raspberry lollies.

💡 Tasty Tips

Here are my top tips and tricks that I want to share with you so that you master the recipe from the get go:

• Line your cake tin with 2 overlapping sheets of baking paper and use a little grease of butter on the tin itself to help stick these 2 pieces of paper in place.
• The total cook time for the chocolate in the microwave is 3 minutes. We don't however, want to do that in one interval as we risk overcooking the chocolate. So the 1 min, stir, 1 min, stir, 1 min, final stir is the trick to perfecting it 👍😉.
• Work reasonably quickly once you have combined the rocky road and are transferring it into the tin. This will ensure that the chocolate doesn't start to set before you have got it into the slice tin.

🤓 Frequently Asked Questions

Can you use dark chocolate for rocky road?

Absolutely you can. Dark chocolate is an excellent ingredient to use to make rocky road as it has an intense chocolate flavor.

What are the best nuts to use for rocky road?

Peanuts are the most popular and commonly used nut for rocky road. However, other nuts like pistachios, cashews and walnuts can also be used to switch it up a bit.

Do you have to use the stove to melt chocolate?

No, you can easily use the microwave to melt chocolate. Simply use 1 minute increments and stir the chocolate after each increment.

😍 More Easy Sweet Recipes

If your favorite thing to do is to get your bake or no bake on, then I have some more recipes that I know you will love. Work your way through these sweet treats 🥰👌.

• Candied Spiced Pecans
• Lemon Polenta Cake
• Malteser Truffles
• Mint Aero Fudge
• Malteser Biscuits
• Rocky Road Cakes
• Coffee Slice
• Coconut Fudge
• Chocolate Orange Fudge
• Microwave Chocolate Fudge

Or you can find all of my chocolate recipes in the one spot.

Adrianne

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