Express Rocky Road

I know I said the last recipe from Nigella Express was going to be the last recipe from Nigella Express ... but this one managed to sneak in to my kitchen this afternoon!  Work has been particularly insane lately, hence the lack of blogging but Hubby made a request last week for Rocky Road (and brownies and ice cream and a whole string of other chocolate related food stuff!) and I promised him I would make some.  A hectic week at work usually means I want to do nothing more at the weekend but potter in the kitchen, but I'll confess to having lost my baking mojo.  I tried to make Chocolate Fudge Cookies through the week, they were such a disaster that I have vowed to stay away from cookies for the foreseeable future, there was a loaf of bread that was also quite spectacular in its failure ;0(

So the long and the short of it is that Nigella's Express Rocky Road was about as much as I could summons today!  I'm hoping the mojo returns by tomorrow though as I have a Fresh From The Oven Challenge to bake - eeeeeeeek!

Nigella's Express Rocky Road
125g soft butter
300g chocolate (I used milk but Nigella used dark)
45ml golden syrup
200g rich tea biscuits
100g mini marshmallows (I only had regular sized so I cut them up with scissors)
2 tsp icing sugar, for dusting (optional!)

Melt the butter, chocolate and golden syrup in a heavy based saucepan.  Scoop out about 125ml of this melted mixture and put to one side.

Put the biscuits into a freezer bag and then bash them with a rolling pin.  In Nigella's words you are aiming for both crumbs and pieces of biscuit.

Fold the biscuit pieces and crumbs through the melted chocolate mixture in the saucepan and then add the marshmallows.

Tip into a foil tray (24cm square); flatten as best you can with a spatula.  Pour the reserved 125ml of melted chocolate mixture over the marshmallow mixture and smooth the top.

Refrigerate for about 2 hours or overnight.

Cut into 24 fingers and dust with icing sugar by pushing it gently through a tea strainer or a small sieve.

Makes 24
Nigella Express

I found the mixture for this Rocky Road quite dry once all the biscuits and marshmallows were mixed in, for this reason mini marshmallows are defo recommended, they would have been much easier to mix through evenly.  Also, although Nigella says you're looking for both biscuit and crumbs, i would suggest more crumbs than anything else, if the biscuit chunks are left too large then the finished Rocky Road is very crumbly.  I think next time I will bulk about the amount of chocolate [shame!] and maybe add some nuts of some description, I think brazil's or macadamias would work really well.

I love the use of the foil tray to set the Rocky Road in.  Not only is there no washing up afterwards but it makes it portable to, this would be great for a picnic ;0)