The Best Chocolate Rocky Road is a delicious sweet treat packed with milk chocolate, marshmallows, Turkish delight, coconut and crunchy macadamia nuts. It’s rich, colourful and full of lovely textures in every bite.
This is such a simple recipe to prepare and makes a generous batch, perfect for sharing with family and friends, adding to a festive platter or giving as a homemade gift.
The story behind this chocolate rocky road recipe
This recipe is a version of the one given to me by my dear friend Alison. Her recipes feature a bit on here as she is just such a good baker with an eye for all the good stuff! I cannot wait to share more from her soon.
You may have seen her recipe on here for White Chocolate Rocky Road, this is the milk chocolate version of that! Only changes are using creamy milk chocolate from Whittaker’s and the pink marshmallows.
How much chocolate do you need for this rocky road?
There are hundreds of variations of Rocky Road around, many of them use a vegetable shortening or oil to help set and hold the rocky road stable at room temp. This one just uses chocolate and wow what a divine treat it is! You may wish to prepare yourself for the quantities on this recipe … 900 grams of chocolate is no small feat!
I used four blocks of Whittaker’s Creamy Milk Chocolate as that is my favourite. But feel free to halve this recipe if you prefer.
What goes into this rocky road?
Slicing into a rocky road is such a treat, the colours are gorgeous! Making this recipe is super simple, just melting the ingredients and then adding the extra bits, in this case just macadamia nuts, coconut (shredded or desiccated), marshmallows and Turkish delight.
The Turkish delight is totally optional, you could replace it with any other sweet, but for me it really makes this rocky road something special!
How to store and serve rocky road
I made mine in a roasting dish and this rocky road goes a LONG way! I have frozen mine, it keeps well this way, or alternatively store in the fridge for up to a week or so.
This would make an amazing gift for people at Christmas, or a delicious treat to serve for special occasions or added to a dessert platter. I love these easy recipes where you just melt, mix and set!
Feel free to halve the recipe and reduce the baking tin size also.
White chocolate rocky road variation
You can also make up the white chocolate version, simply click on the image below to see this recipe. You will love both! I have used pink marshmallows in this chocolate version and white marshmallows in the white chocolate version, but you can mix it up! They both taste delicious!
Click here for the White Chocolate Rocky Road variation.
More rocky road and Christmas recipes to try
My website has over 40 amazing Christmas recipes on my blog, adding to these each year with special recipes, shared friends treats and more, you can check those out here, I am sure you will find something you love.
I have combined this rocky road and my favourite brownie to create a Rocky Road Chocolate Brownie! You should definitely check it out, so delicious and super simple.
Perhaps you might like to try these Lolly Truffles. A delicious treat that are fun to make and everyone loves them! You can use marshmallows or fruit puffs as I have done here. Simply click on the image to go straight to this recipe.
I hope you enjoy this recipe, let me know in the comments below what Christmas recipes I should be sharing next. Do you make special treats only at Christmas time?
The Best Chocolate Rocky Road recipe
The Best Chocolate Rocky Road
The Best Chocolate Rocky Road is an easy homemade treat packed with milk chocolate, marshmallows, Turkish delight, coconut and crunchy macadamia nuts.
Ingredients
- Milk Chocolate (I used Whittakers Creamy Milk), 900 grams
- 1/2 Cup Shredded or Desiccated Coconut, 45 grams
- 1 Cup Macadamia nuts, halved, 70 grams
- Pink Marshmallows, halved, 250 grams
- 1x 12 pack of Fry's Mini Turkish Delights (180g bag), each piece cut into 8 (optional)
Instructions
- Prepare a large roasting dish, approx 28 x 23 cm with baking paper and set aside. Spraying with cooking oil helps the paper to stick.
- Before you begin measure out the rocky road bits, the coconut, cut the macadamias, the marshmallows and the turkish delight and set aside.
- In a large microwave proof bowl break up the chocolate pieces and microwave in 30 second bursts. Stirring in between until the chocolate has fully melted.
- Alternatively use the double boiler method
- Add the coconut, macadamias, marshmallows and turkish delight to the melted chocolate and fold together.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared roasting dish and smooth with a spatula.
- Gently shake the roasting dish to settle the chocolate and ingredients, then place in the refrigerator to set overnight or until completely set.
- Remove from the fridge 20 minutes before you wish to slice it.
- With a sharp clean knife cut into small squares
- Store in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
- Enjoy
Nutrition Information
Yield 25 Serving Size 1Amount Per Serving Calories 96Total Fat 9gSaturated Fat 3gUnsaturated Fat 7gSodium 15mgCarbohydrates 4gFiber 1gSugar 2gProtein 1g
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I really hope you love The Best Chocolate Rocky Road as much as we do. It’s such a delicious treat, and one I love making for Christmas and special occasions.
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Happy baking,
Anna x
Sel says
Instead of the coconut I add a cherry ripe and a crunchy bar to my rocky road. I get so many comments on it.
Also I use Allen’s red frogs or snakes instead of the Turkish delight, for those who don’t like it.
justamumnz says
Sounds lovely