Malteser Rocky Road

Name: Malteser Rocky Road
Yield: Makes 10 bars
Ingredients: 100 g/3½ oz mini marshmallows; 360 g/12¾ oz digestive biscuits (graham crackers), crushed; 100 g/3½ oz Maltesers; If you like, you can add 50 g/1¾ oz/⅓-½ cup dried cherries, raisins, chopped nuts or honeycomb too.; Leftover Easter eggs, chocolate bars (like Dime bars or Kit Kats), or truffles or chocolates that have sat around too long, make a great rocky road. For me, the best additions are Maltesers.; 300 g/10½ oz chocolate, any kind you like, broken up; 250 g/9 oz butter; 2 tbsp golden syrup; a pinch of salt

Preparation info

Makes
10
bars

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom

By Prue Leith

Published 2024

About

This is an ultra-sweet delight that I’m a little ashamed to like so much. It was one of the few things I made as a child, before I’d grown up to know how totally unhealthy it is! But heigh-ho, it’s still utterly delicious and great fun to make with children. So, once in a blue moon...

Ingredients

300 g/10½ oz chocolate, any kind you like, broken up
250 g/9

Dessert
Baking
Microwave

Method

Tip the chocolate into a heatproof bowl. Add the butter, golden syrup and salt. Melt gently over a pan of simmering water, stirring until smooth. Once melted, remove from the heat and let the mixture cool.
Add the crushed digestives (graham crackers), Maltesers and mini marshmallows. Stir gently until everything is well coated.
Line a 15cm-square (6in