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Rocky Road Recipe

Rocky Road Recipe
Rocky Road Recipe

Ingredients for Rocky Road  Recipe

200g milk chocolate
100g dark chocolate
120g golden syrup
175g butter
175g digestive biscuits
40g marshmallows
80g raisins
80g dried apricots
100g glace cherries

How to make Rocky Road

  1. Prepare a square 20cm tin (preferably loose based) by lining it with 2 lengths of cling film in a cross shape. Ensure the cling film lengths allows enough to wrap the Rocky Road later.
  2. Put the digestive biscuits in a freezer bag and bash into small pieces using a rolling pin.  Put the broken digestive biscuits in a large mixing bowl.  Slice the dried apricots and halve the cherries. Add the raisins and marshmallows, along with the prepared apricots and cherries, to the broken digestive biscuits in the large mixing bowl. Set aside.
  3. Break the chocolate into cubes and put it in a heat proof bowl. Add the golden syrup and butter in the same bowl.
  4. Place this bowl over a sauce pan of gently simmering water, but not touching the water. Stir occassionally until all melted. Remove heatproof bowl from heat.
  5. Now tip the contents of the large mixing bowl (with broken digestive biscuits, raisins, etc) into the heatproof bowl of melted ingredients and mix well to make Rocky Road.
  6. Once all combined, pour mixture into the prepared lined tin. Wrap excess cling film over Rocky road and press down to level.  Let it cool down and place in the fridge for at least two hours.
  7. To serve Rocky Road, remove from tin and peel off cling film. Slice into squares or rectangles and sift icing sugar over cut pieces.

 

 

Little Chocolate Cake Nibbles Recipe

Chocolate Cake Nibbles Recipe
Chocolate Cake Nibbles Recipe

This small chocolate nibbles recipe makes lovely little, bite-sized chocolatey treats. Be warned: they are extremely more-ish so make a large batch at your own risk.

Small Chocolate Nibbles Recipe Ingredients

100g plain cake (eg Madeira cake)
50g butter
50g icing sugar
200g white chocolate bar
Chocolate rice or coloured sugar sprinkles
Small paper cases

 

How to make chocolate cake nibbles

  1. Crumble the cake and sift inthe icing sugar.
  2. Put a small saucepan of water over a low heat. Stand a large heat resistant glass bowl over the saucepan, preferably not touching the water.
  3. Break the white chocolate into cubes and put in the glass bowl. Cut the butter into cubes and slowly melt together with the white chocolate cubes.
  4. When mixture is melted, remove bowl from saucepan. Add cake crumbs mixture and combine.
  5. Take a small amount at a time and roll them in your palms to make a little ball.
  6. Roll the little cake ball in a plate of chocolate rice or coloured sprinkles. Put each in a paper case and put in the refrigerator for one hour to firm up.

Variations

Use plain chocolate instead of white chocolate.

Use dessicated coconut to coat your cake nibbles

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