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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Thinking of making this for a charity bake sale at school I helped organise and wanted to know how long it will last once made? Thank you , I love baking your recipes for family and friends and is there any other recipes you suggest that will good and quite cost effective for a bake sale for secondary school
Hiya! It will last for at least a week, and I would recommend any form of cupcake or traybake! Hope this helps! x
Hi Jane
Would love to make rocky road, just wondering can you use confectionery chocolate or is it better to use cooking chocolate? 😊
Hiya! You can do – but I prefer to use supermarket’s own, as some others can have a lot of added sugars which can sometimes cause it to split! Hope this helps! x
Hi Jane. Iv just been tasked with making this as a cake for my sister in laws suprise 40th party. I’m looking it in a 8/9 inch round tin. Would the quantities if ingredients differ much from the quantities you use for the sqare tin in this recipe?
Hi Jane I maked this rocky road for the cafe and everybody loved it I normally make it with dr oetker chocolate but I used the chocolate that you used.
Is this rocky road gluten free or not ? X
Hiya! It depends on what other ingredients you used – always check the packet! x
Hi. Can you use half milk and dark Choc ? Thank you
Hi Jane, love the website. Hoping to get the book for Christmas. Just wondering if i could use 200g or milk chocolate and 200g of dark
Yes absolutely you can! Thanks so muuuch, enjoy! x
Hi Jane, love the website. Where can i buy the book and how up too date is it? I heard about this website from a friend and I’ve been loving how trendy these recipes are!!!
I added 100g candid clementines to mine, I think that they lasted about an hour, I will definitely make them again
Hi Jane, how long do you think the Rocky Road would last? I am planning on making some for Christmas gifts but will be seeing the recipients over a 2 week period (being optimistic that it won’t be eaten by me in that time🤣)
Thank you x
Hi Jane this is amazing! Just wondering if you could use Daim bar’s instead of crunchie?
Yes for sure!! x
Made this yesterday love the recipe turned out alright for my first attempt it’s yummy really enjoyed making
it and the family loved it
Hi,
I melted the syrup and butter, took it off heat as soon as it melted and added the chocolate and mixed and it split. Tried adding bit of milk nd whisking but was still very gloopy/ thick. I have still fridged the mix, will it turn out ok to eat?
Hiya, it will be fine to eat but it may have a slightly weird texture x
Hi jane,
Was wondering if you could do a white chocolate rocky road? As there is white choc spread at Tesco I was wondering if you could use that with a mix of white choc for the base then add in whatever? Just wondering if I could go off another recipe such as the biscoff for the quantities.
Hey! You can’t do a straight swap to white chocolate with this sort of recipe because the white chocolate doesn’t mix with the butter and the syrup xx
Hi Jane , just wondering if I could swap the crunchy for munchies ? Thanks
For sure!
Hiya. Can I exchange the crunchie for say, Maltesers? Many thanks x
Yes definitely!! x
I keep trying this recipe but every time the chocolate seizes as soon as it mixes with the melted butter and syrup. I’ve tried on the lowest hob heat on a double boiler method, I’ve tried constantly stirring, I’ve tried melting the ingredients together and melting the butter and syrup and adding finely chopped chocolate after and it still seizes. What am I doing wrong?
It could be the chocolate you are using – however, usually if you take the mix off the heat and add a bit of whole milk and mix it will bring it back to a smooth mix and work perfectly!
Thankyou for the recommendation, should the milk also be warm or can it be cold?
I’ve added it in cold, but you can also use a little boiling water too if you’d prefer to use that!
This recipe is amazing thank you! All my family said it was the best rocky road they’ve ever had but next time I think I’ll chop up the crunchie a bit chunkier! Please can you do an Apple crumble recipe? One of my all time faves.
So glad you liked it!! And that’s on my list for autumn time! x
I made this as a birthday treat for my mother-in-law today. She loves rocky road and the addition of crunchies was SO good. This was my first time making rocky road and my chocolate split – I panicked but just added a splash of milk, put it back on the hob and stirred it like mad and it miraculously came back together. thanks for the recipe, I’ll be saving this one 🙂