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Christmas Rocky Road Recipe

Christmas Rocky Road Recipe

This super easy Christmas rocky road comes together in no time! Packed with dark and white chocolate, crunchy ginger cookies, mini marshmallows, and a few festive extras, it’s the perfect treat or homemade gift for the holiday season!
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Resting Time: 4 hours
Total Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
Calories: 345kcal
Author: Anne Carter
Servings: 16

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 10 ounces dark chocolate 60-70% cocoa solids, 275g
  • ½ cup salted butter 113g
  • 3 tablespoons golden syrup
  • 7 ounces ginger nuts/ginger snaps 200g
  • 2 cups mini marshmallows 100g
  • ½ cup dried cranberries 60g, plus a few more for the top
  • ⅓ cup chopped pistachios 50g, plus a few more for the top
  • zest of 1 orange
  • To finish
  • 7 ounces white chocolate 200g
  • 1 ounce dark chocolate 30g

Instructions

  • Line an 8x8 baking pan with parchment paper and set it aside.
    Lining an 8x8 baking pan with parchment paper
  • In a medium saucepan, melt dark chocolate, butter, and golden syrup over low heat, stirring often. Remove from heat once nearly melted and let residual heat finish the job.
    Melting dark chocolate, butter, and golden syrup in a saucepan on a white marble cooktop
  • Place ginger cookies in a freezer bag and crush them with a rolling pin, leaving some large chunks.
    Crushing ginger nuts in a freezer bag with a rolling pin
  • Stir the crushed cookies into the warm chocolate mixture, then add mini marshmallows, dried cranberries, chopped pistachios, and orange zest. Mix everything well.
    Mixing crushed cookies, marshmallows, cranberries, pistachios, and zest into melted chocolate
  • Pour the mixture into the lined pan, then chill in the fridge.
    Pouring the cranberry tart mixture into the lined pan, ready to chill
  • Melt white chocolate in a small heatproof bowl over simmering water, then melt the dark chocolate the same way.
    Melting white chocolate in a heatproof bowl
  • Spread the melted white chocolate over the chilled rocky road, drizzle with dark chocolate, and use a toothpick to swirl for a marbled effect.
    Spreading white chocolate and drizzling dark chocolate over the cranberry tart
  • Sprinkle extra cranberries and pistachios on top, chill for at least 4 hours, then cut into squares and enjoy!
    Chilled cranberry tart ready to be cut into squares.

Nutrition

Calories: 345kcal | Carbohydrates: 40.2g | Protein: 3.2g | Fat: 19.9g | Saturated Fat: 10.8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6.1g | Trans Fat: 19.2g | Cholesterol: 76mg | Potassium: 218mg | Fiber: 2.3g | Sugar: 29.3g | Calcium: 51mg | Iron: 3mg