What is British Rocky Road!?
It has come to my attention that not every country in the world is aware of the delicious delights offered by a chunk of Rocky Road. And that is absolutely crazy to me as it's such a British staple; all bakeries and Christmas fairs have them, like we grew up making and eating this stuff and I can’t believe people don’t know about it because in the UK it’s just everywhere.
As I was browsing on TikTok, y’know as you do, I saw this lovely American Girl making some Rocky Road and when I looked at the comments they were all asking what it was - they thought it was an ice cream flavour! I couldn’t believe it so I thought to myself, the world has got to be told about this secret.
So today, we're going to make a batch of the classic British staple that is Rocky Road. Some of you may have heard of the Australian Rocky Road, it’s also a big thing in Australia, but they tend to add lots of gummy sweets to theirs and obviously that goes against all of our British sensibilities.
The English one is quite basic, I won’t lie to you, but it’s also really good!
And we decided to use this BBC Good Food recipe to make it!
Check out how it went here:
I’ll lay out the key info and ingredients below before we continue.
Key Info:
The Prep time in this recipe was: 15 minutes
Cook time was: 5 minutes.
It should serve: 15 peoples
Ingredients:
200g digestive biscuits (Rich Tea can also be used)
135g butter or margarine
200g dark chocolate (70% cocoa works best)
2-3tbsp golden syrup
100g mini marshmallows (chopped regular marshmallows work too)
icing sugar (to dust)
Optional:
raisins, dried cranberries or any dried fruit
nuts
popcorn
honeycomb, broken up into pieces
We started off by greasing our baking dish - ideally it should be an 18cm square brownie tin lined with baking paper.
It then says that we should put the digestive biscuits in a zip lock freezer bag and bash it with a rolling pin, but we just find it SO satisfying getting to cut them up - just one of those funny quirks. You kinda want to get it so there’s a mix of biscuit dust and a 50p coin sized lump.
While you’re getting this sorted; in a large saucepan you want to melt your butter, chocolate and golden syrup into a nice melty mixture. For the golden syrup a Grackle top tip is to put a little bit of vegetable oil onto your table spoon so the golden syrup slips right out without leaving a mess.
You’ll be thanking us later for that nice clean spoon, mm mm mm!
It should be heating up slowly and creating that hot chocolatey goodness - that hot chocolate sauce - melty melty chocolate. YUM!
Also can I just say… bit of a tangent but I think we need a bit of an Ice Cream revolution up in England. Like, why don’t we have Rocky Road as an ice cream flavour? I’m quite intrigued to try it actually. A little bit of crunch, the gooey marshmallows and all that chocolatey goodness. I think it’d be a winner. Even thought chocolate is definitely the worst flavour of ice cream! Don’t hate me for saying it, it’s just true.
Once you’re ready, take all of your biscuits and then our key ingredient - mini marshmallows - and any of the other ingredients you might want to include. Some people add raisins and such but that’s a preference thing. We didn’t include any because we were just going for a classic rocky road. Then you just want to stir all of those bits into the chocolatey mixture!
I must say that the standard mini marshmallow really does NOT hold is structural integrity in England, they seem to just melt right into the mixture which is SO annoying.
But once it’s all in, just give it a good mix and put it into your prepped baking tin.
Then you just want to pop that into the fridge until it’s set.
When you take it out of the fridge people always have a different approach. Some people pour chocolate all over the top, some like to decorate, but as you know we just couldn’t wait to take a bite and so we say just jump in and cut yourself a slice!
And there you have it - a classic British Rocky Road!
If you thought this looked tantalisingly delicious and you gave it a try, let us know how you got on in the comments! We’d love to know how your little slice of British Rocky Road went down.
Till next time.