This Mint Rocky Road is a no-bake slice that can be ready to eat in half an hour! It features nubbly pieces of mint chocolate - in biscuit and chocolate bar form. Tossed with pillow-y baby marshmallows, all bound in melted dark chocolate. The textural contrasts are a sensory delight!
It’s so addictive to eat – something about wanting to eat all the little jagged bits sticking out of each chunk. And then tidying up all the crumbs with a licked fingertip. Do you bite into it or tear the marshmallow-y bits apart?
Think you're not a fan of rocky road? I bet, like me, you’ve been put off by the many bad versions out there. Made with cheap chocolate, too much plain biscuit and gummy lollies that stick to your teeth.
This Mint Rocky Road:
- is the perfect sweet treat to bring to a last-minute picnic or BBQ invitation
- makes a thoughtful, delicious edible gift – in a glass jar or tissue-paper lined box
- is the ultimate after-dinner treat (even if everyone claims they're full)
🥘 Ingredients
- fluffy marshmallows
- crunchy chocolate biscuit
- soft peppermint crème
- shards of mint cracknel
- melted dark chocolate to 'glue' it all together
🍫 Dark chocolate makes this rocky road a bit grown-up, reminiscent of After Dinner mints. Good quality dark chocolate tempers the sweetness of the other ingredients too.
This recipe is nut-free.
You can buy marshmallows and dark chocolate everywhere. Can't find Mint Slice biscuits or Peppermint Crisp chocolate bars where you live? A version of these will work fine.
Mint Slice
I had never had a Mint Slice before moving to Australia. They're pretty good! They're round mint chocolate biscuits made by the iconic Aussie brand Arnott’s. Crunchy chocolate biscuits covered in a layer of a firm mint cream, all dipped in dark chocolate.
Peppermint Crisp
Made by Nestle, this is widely available in South Africa and Australia. My local supermarket sells it in two different sizes, each from the two countries. This is the reason for the packaging differences in the photo. The Aussie one is a smooth log, the SA one is in blocks. Both consist of mint ‘cracknel’ coated in milk chocolate
Baby Marshmallows
I couldn't find any baby marshmallows when taking these photos. Turns out they're in the baking section not with the sweets 🙄. I cut ‘ordinary’-sized marshmallows into four (no need to be precise). They tend to be quite sticky; I sprinkled over some sifted cornflour to keep the pieces separate.
🔪 Instructions
Simply melt the chocolate (I recommend in a bain marie), chop up the biscuit and chocolate bars and combine!
Pick your own adventure
I use a 20cm square dish for this Rocky Road, because it’s the only silicone one I have. A silicone tray is handy because you don’t need to line with baking paper/foil to turn it out. A bigger tray will give a thinner rocky road. You can do whatever you like here – one of the beauties of a no-bake recipe. You could even spread out on a plate and chill.
Ugly-beautiful
Impossible to cut neat, clean uniform slices but I suppose it’s not called ‘rocky’ for nothing. The crumbs are great for picking up with a licked fingertip. amaze-balls with vanilla ice cream. Dare you not to eat any while you’re chopping it up
📖 Recipe
Equipment
- Silicone tray 20cm x 20cm (optional)
Ingredients
- 200 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
- 200 g Mint Slice biscuits
- 175 g Peppermint Crisp
- 100 g baby marshmallows
Instructions
- Melt Chocolate – roughly chop and transfer to a shallow bowl. Either melt in short bursts in the microwave or in a bain marie (over a pan of simmering water). Allow it to cool slightly. We need it molten to stick the other ingredients together, but not so hot it melts the chocolate in the peppermint crisp and mint slices.200 g dark chocolate
- Mint Slice, Peppermint Crisp & Marshmallows – add to a large bowl. Chop each Mint Slice into eight ‘pie slices’. Cut the Peppermint Crisps in half along their length, then into small sections about 1cm wide. It will shatter and get a bit messy; it’s all fine! Tip in the marshmallows. Toss everything together lightly with your hands.200 g Mint Slice biscuits175 g Peppermint Crisp100 g baby marshmallows
- Combine - pour the melted chocolate over the bits. Combine well using a flexible spatula so that the chocolate glues everything together. There should be no powdery bits left at the bottom of the bowl. You'll need to work quite fast, before the chocolate cools and hardens too much.
- Chill & Portion – tip rubble out into a silicone tray or lined tray, using a fork to spread out if required. Refrigerate until the chocolate is set. Turn out and cut into chunks to serve.
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