Rich Rocky Road Recipe

At Christmas you are allowed to indulge on treats such as this rocky road, which has been adapted from a recipe by the delightful Nigella Lawson.

Ingredients:

300g of good quality chocolate - as dark as your tastes dictate
125g of softened butter
2 generous tablespoons of golden syrup
100g of fruit soaked in brandy (sultanas and cherrys for example)
100g of small marshmallows
150g of roughly crushed biscuits (ginger crunch and digestives work superbly)

Method:

Place the butter, chocolate and syrup in a bowl and place on top of a saucepan of simmering water. Mix together until a liquid. Now add all the other ingredients and mix together until all is covered in chocolate.

Now pack together in a foiled tin. (The foil will make it easier to remove the mixture for cutting into desired pieces when chilled)

Place in a fridge for at least three hours. Once chilled dust with icing sugar for presentation.

If kept out of the fridge this biscuit will not melt, but it is nicer to be relatively chilled.