Cute Food - Rocky Road

Ages ago Kat suggested that I do a Miss Wendy's Cute Food version of rocky road and I have been thinking about it since then ... rocky road is one of Ashley's favourite sweets and I mentioned it to him recently and he was very keen for me to give it a go ... while I was creating all the goodies for Vienna's birthday (which I still haven't posted) I was thinking about it and last week I finally gave it a go. I just used ingredients that I already had at home, I figured that for a practise run it would be fine, that I needed to work on the chocolate to extras ratio as I am not really a rocky road eater - there always seem to be other things that tempt me instead.

So, I used mostly dark chocolate and a little milk chocolate, walnuts, raisins, marshmellows and soft mint leaves. I put them in my new baking pan that my fantastic Aunty Lyn and Uncle Tony bought back from England for me (because it cost a fortune to buy here in NZ). The baking pan has lift up bottoms that allowed me to pop the mini rocky roads out when they had set.


The finished product looked cuter than I have seen rocky road look before and tasted pretty good too! Ashley and I decided that it needed peanuts as well for more texture when eating as the walnuts are a softer nut and he thinks adding the tradional cherries would just finish them off perfectly. The small size (5cm square) meant that our sweet treats were a sensible portion size and helped them to last a little longer. I do feel a little guilty that Kat didn't get to try any as it was her idea originally but I guess I will have to make sure that she gets some of the next batch.