This easy, Loaded Rocky Road is the perfect way to use up leftover chocolate, biscuits and any other sweet bits and bobs you may have lying around your kitchen! No matter what biscuits, nuts or chocolates you have, everything can be thrown into this Loaded Rocky Road recipe to make a completely different, delicious treat!
Rocky road is perfect for busy people wanting to make a homemade snack! It takes absolutely no time to make: Melt the chocolate and butter, stir in all your extras and chill in the fridge! It doesn´t get easier than that!
What is Rocky Road?
Some of you may not know what rocky road is, so let me explain. I´d like to say every British person knows what it is, but when I told my mum the other day I had made this she turned round to me and said: “Sounds good but what on earth is Rocky Road?”. So maybe not every British person knows what it is after all then, haha…
Rocky road is sold in pretty much in every coffee shop in the country and can be found among the other cakes and muffins, although it isn´t really a cake itself… Rocky road comes in bars or squares and is essentially chocolate that is filled with loads of other things, such as biscuits, marshmallows, nuts, small sweets or chocolates. Classically, a rocky road contains broken up digestive biscuits and mini marshmallows. But there are no limits to what you can add!
Rocky road is great for using up any chocolate, biscuits or opened packets of nuts that are lying around. Throwing things you don´t want to eat by themselves into a rocky road transforms them into a completely different treat you won´t be able to wait to dig into!
My Easy Rocky Road is Absolutely Loaded with Goodies!
Now, I don´t know about you, but I love my rocky road to be packed full of treats, rather than being predominantly chocolate!
If you want a version with fewer add-in ingredients, try using only 100g of digestives and fewer almonds. For me, the more the better though, so I have written up the ratios I like below.
I even pressed some additional biscuits, marshmallows and chocolate chips on top of my Loaded Rocky Road (both for increased yumminess and decoration purposes) but of course that is entirely optional!
Check out the recipe for Dark Chocolate Digestive Biscuits which added on top of this rocky road!
Turn Old into New with This Loaded Rocky Road!
As mentioned above, you can add a whole host of things to your Rocky Road! Nuts, dried fruits, gummy bears (although I don´t particularly like the thought of that), any kind of biscuit, broken up chocolate bars…. You name it!
I often make this Loaded Rocky Road when I have some chocolate or other sweets that I don´t particularly enjoy eating on their own… I always wonder how that happens – but you know what it´s like! You might be given chocolate you are not particularly fond of (In my case bars of milk chocolate, for example. I just don´t like eating plain milk chocolate), or you have bought a new thing to try and discover we don´t particularly like it… You may also be left with an overload of Christmas or Easter chocolates (I also like using up chocolate Easter eggs in this Brownie recipe!) or plain digestive (or other) biscuits leftover from making a base for a cheesecake just don´t tickle your fancy on their own – You get what I mean!
Anyway, combining any of the above, will result in something completely new! All the things you don´t like on their own, combined into a heavenly treat you can´t get enough of! Waste not, want not!
No-Bake Lemon Cheesecake 
Mini Cherry Trifles 
Bailey´s Chocolate Truffles 
Classic Trifle 
“Lighter” Lemon Cheesecake
More No-Bake Treats
If you are looking for more treats that don´t require turning on the oven, why not check out some of my other No-Bake recipes?
- Bailey´s Chocolate Truffles
- Mini Cherry Trifles
- Classic British Trifle
- Bailey´s Chocolate and Orange Trifle
- No-Bake Lemon Cheesecake with a Gingernut Base
- “Lighter” Lemon and Quark Cheesecake
Loaded Rocky Road | No-Bake Fridge Cake
Recipe
Ingredients:
- 200g chocolate (I used 100g milk and 100g dark)
- 100g butter
- 1 tbsp golden syrup
- 150g digestive biscuits, roughly broken into pieces
- 60g Mini Marshmallows
- 50g almonds, roughly chopped
- Sprinkles, chocolate chips, extra biscuits chunks, etc. to decorate (optional)
YOU WILL ALSO NEED:
- clingfilm
- a heat-proof glass bowl
- 18x18cm brownie tin (available for £3 from Morrisons)
Method:
- Prepare your 18x18cm brownie tin by lining it with some clingfilm.
- Break the chocolate into pieces, and put it into a heatproof bowl together with the butter and golden syrup. Set over a pan of simmering water (without the bowl touching the water). Wait for it all to melt, stirring occasionally to make sure everything is well combined. Then remove the bowl from the heat and set aside to cool for a few minutes.
- In the meantime, you can prepare the remaining ingredients. Weigh out the marshmallows, roughly chop the almonds and break the digestive biscuits into pieces (not too small, you don´t want to end up with just crumbs. I break each biscuit into 5 chunks, roughly the size of a pound coin).
- Once the chocolate has cooled slightly, stir in all the remaining ingredients until everything is fully coated in the chocolate mixture.
- Transfer to your prepared brownie tin and level the surface. Optionally, you can press some additional mini marshmallows, sprinkles, chocolate chips or biscuit chunks on top to decorate.
- Cover with clingfilm and chill in the fridge for at least 4 hours until set. Remove from the tin and cut the rocky road into 16 pieces. The rocky road will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for 1-2 weeks (how would it even last that long?!?).
