Rocky Road Chocolate

My Christmas Rocky Road is a fun festive recipe that works well for something different during the festive season.

🤍 Recipe Highlights

All of the things that you will come to know (and LOVE) about this recipe are summarised in the points below:

• Simple ingredients: you will be able to grab everything you need for the recipe at the local shops. There is no driving around town to speciality stores needed 😊.
• Straightforward method and easy steps: this is an easy recipe that doesn't take too long to make! There is no candy thermometer needed or double boiler.
• Taste and texture: the combination of ingredients is done to create textures that both contrast and compliment each other at the same time.
• Dessert or sweet treat: whether you want to whip these up for dessert or keep in the fridge for movie night, they will tick all of the chocolate craving, sweet tooth, dessert boxes!
• Versatile: you can take these to sell at a bake sale, or wrap and give as gifts. The versatility of the finished product will suit a wide variety of purposes.
• Two techniques: I give you 2 techniques for making the chocolates in the step by step instructions. This allows you to either do both, or choose the one that you prefer and do that one for the entire batch. The different techniques results in the chocolates being visually different which looks pretty and works well for a bit of diversity.

Tasty Tip: this one is for my USA and Canadian readers. In Australia we call what you call 'candy', 'lollies'. It is the same thing. So where in Australia we would think of rocky road as having chocolate, nuts and lollies, you would think of it as having chocolate, nuts and candy. Simply different words referring to the same thing ❤😉.

🥗 Ingredients

The photo below is to show you everything you need to make the recipe. Please refer to the printable recipe card for exact measurements and detailed how to guide.

As you can see, the recipe calls for:

• Milk Chocolate: I recommend using cooking chocolate. My preference is melts, but you can use chocolate chips, bits or a block broken into pieces.
• Marshmallows: the best ones to use for the recipe are mini marshmallows. They come in a packet which has a combination of pink and white colours or there is a pastel range you can get. This will save time in chopping up regular sized marshmallows and won't leave the tops of the chocolate sticky from the cut bits.
• Raspberry lollies: I use kitchen scissors and a glass jug to chop these into small pieces. Use can also use a knife and chopping board if you like.
• Roasted peanuts: unsalted roasted peanuts are the best to use for the recipe as we don't need or want the salty taste in the chocolates. You can use kitchen scissors to roughly chop these into pieces if you want smaller bits of nuts or use the version called 'crushed nuts' which are also peanuts but really small pieces which takes the work out of you chopping them up. I don't chop them for your info.

Tasty Tip: you will be able to purchase the ingredients needed to make the chocolates from your local store. Be it Walmart, Safeway, Aldi, Tesco, Woolies or Coles. I also have a kitchen wares store at my local shops, so purchased the chocolate moulds from there. If you don't have a kitchen supplies store, I recommend looking online as there are plenty out there! Another alternative is to use silicon ice cube trays 😉.

🍳 Instructions

Here are the step by step instructions to make the recipe. I am using 3 cm (1.2 inches) dome chocolate molds which I purchased from my local kitchen supply store.

• Combine the fillings (Photo 1)
• Stir to mix them together (Photo 2)
• Fill chocolate mould with fillings (Photo 3)
• Melt chocolate in microwave (Photo 4)

👩‍🍳 How to Make Rocky Road Chocolate

To make the chocolates, start by combining the marshmallows, raspberry lollies and nuts in a mixing bowl. Use a spoon to stir and combine. Then use a teaspoon to start to fill the chocolate mould with the filling ingredients.

Once that is done, you are ready to add the chocolate to a heatproof jug. It will take 3 minutes to melt in the microwave, which is best done as a 1 minute period, then stirred followed by another 1 minute period, stirred and a final 1 minute.

• Pour melted chocolate over the fillings (Photo 5)
• Transfer remaining fillings into the melted chocolate (Photo 6)
• Stir to combine (Photo 7)
• Spoon into the chocolate mould (Photo 8)

🍽 Serving Suggestions

To serve the chocolates, you simply need to push them out of the mould and break off any excess chocolate bits. Use can use a knife for this process if you like. The excess chocolate is the bit that sits on the perimeter of the individual dome which will form a tail to the half round shape of the individual chocolates.

They will pop out easily and it will only take 2 minutes to remove all of the chocolates from the moulds.

👍 How to Guide

How to Store

Store the rocky road in an air tight container in the fridge. It will last for 10 days or more.

😉 Substitutions and Variations

Here are my subs ins and outs that you might like to consider as you make the recipe.

• If you prefer you can use white or dark chocolate instead of the milk chocolate.
• You can use a different nut, like pistachios in place of the peanuts.
• If you want to use can use chopped up pieces of red licorice instead of the raspberry candy.
• Add some coconut to the rocky road filling ingredients if you wish.
• You can use whole marshmallows and kitchen scissors to chop them into pieces if you like.
• Red Hots cinnamon flavored candy is a type of candy in the United States, commonly sold at Walmart that would be an option to use if you cannot find Raspberry lollies (candy) the one we can in Australia.
• Jelly Babies are an other option, sold at Tesco that you could try. Either using all of the colours, or picking out your favourite ones.
• Wine Gums and Licorice All Sorts are other candy/lolly type options that you could chop into small pieces and use as alternatives.