An easy recipe for no-bake rocky road candy bars, a classic simple slice made from chocolate and marshmallows. This is also known as tiffin in some areas. Our version includes dried cherries and digestive biscuits for extra texture!
Photography by Sophie MacKenzie.
Rocky road is an old type of candy, with the first recorded mention in Australia in the mid-19th century. The origin is disputed, but either way, it’s delicious!
You might be more familiar with rocky road ice cream, which is the same thing but in iced form – and I grew up with a peanut butter version of this on the prairies instead of chocolate. Chocolate and marshmallows, though, you can’t go wrong.
We’ve added dried cherries for a bit of tart sweetness and crumbled digestive cookies for extra texture. There’s nothing better when it’s too hot to bake – except for our icebox cake, maybe.
For a spring twist, try our pretty pastel Easter rocky road!
Use the JUMP TO RECIPE button at the top, or scroll to the bottom of the post to see the printable recipe card with full ingredient measurements and complete instructions.
Ingredients
- Dark chocolate chips
- Salted butter
- Digestive biscuits
- Mini marshmallows
- Dried cherries
Method
Tips and Notes
To make this vegan, use vegan chocolate, marshmallows, and butter. We recommend Enjoy Life chocolate chips, Dandies marshmallows, and Miyoko’s vegan butter. Homemade vegan marshmallows might be a bit too soft here.
This makes a great gift and kids love making it – it’s the perfect recipe to make together and wrap up in some pretty paper to give away. Since you can melt the chocolate in the microwave, slightly older kids can make it on their own! (As a present for their hard working parents, maybe?)
Cutting the bars into smaller pieces after slicing is because rocky road is so rich. A small slice is plenty!
Substitutions
As mentioned above, it’s easy possible to switch any of the non-vegan ingredients out to make a veg-friendly rocky road slice. You can also make it gluten free by using GF digestive cookies.
You can use regular bar chocolate or baking chocolate, chopped finely, instead of chocolate chips. Use a milk or lighter dark chocolate if you have a real sweet tooth, but be warned, this is already quite sweet with the marshmallows.
Any dried fruit you like can take the place of cherries, though we really dig the chocolate cherry mix here. Take one old-fashioned dessert and double up on it – black forest rocky road! Cranberries would be good too.
Go double chocolate with chocolate digestive biscuits!
More Chocolate-Filled Recipes
Vegan Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Double Chocolate Buckwheat Brownies
Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes
Baked Chocolate Donuts
Chocolate Sourdough Cake
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Recipe
Rocky Road Candy Bars
Description
Equipment
- Measuring cups and spoons or a digital kitchen scale
- Parchment paper
- Mixing bowl (must be heat-safe)
- Loaf pan
- Rubber spatula
- Large knife
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups dark chocolate chips
- ⅓ cup salted butter
- 2 cup digestive biscuits, roughly broken, about 10 cookies
- 3 cups mini marshmallows
- ½ cup dried cherries, or favourite dried fruit of your choice
Instructions
- Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and set aside.
- Add the chocolate chips and butter to a large heat-safe bowl. Warm the chocolate in the microwave in 30 second increments, stirring in between each, until both are melted and well-combined. Alternatively, melt the chocolate and butter using a .
- Set aside to cool to room temperature—you don’t want to melt your marshmallows.
- To the cooled chocolate, stir in the cookie bits, marshmallows, and dried cherries.
- Press the mixture into the parchment-lined pan, then set in the fridge to chill for at least 2 hours.
- Once the bar is chilled, slice into pieces (we like bread-like slices or squares). Store in the fridge in a tightly-sealed container for up to two weeks.
Notes
Substitutions
As mentioned above, it’s easy possible to switch any of the non-vegan ingredients out to make a veg-friendly rocky road slice. You can also make it gluten free by using GF digestive cookies. You can use regular bar chocolate or baking chocolate, chopped finely, instead of chocolate chips. Use a milk or lighter dark chocolate if you have a real sweet tooth, but be warned, this is already quite sweet with the marshmallows. Any dried fruit you like can take the place of cherries, though we really dig the chocolate cherry mix here. Take one old-fashioned dessert and double up on it – black forest rocky road! Cranberries would be good too. Go double chocolate with chocolate digestive biscuits!Nutrition
This post was first shared in July 2020. It has been updated with more information and step-by-step pictures In March 2022.
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