This Christmas Leftovers Rocky Road is a way of just up any leftover chocolates, nuts and biscuits that are left after Christmas. The recipe is easy to adapt depending on what you have left.
Christmas Leftovers Rocky Road, is what it says really. It is a rocky road recipe that uses different leftover items which had not been eaten at Christmas. These were and treats snacks that we either didn’t get around to eating or were things left over from other desserts I made for Christmas. Plus of course food that no one likes eating, like chocolate orange creams from the Quality Street tins.
Of course, this fridge cake is by no means a healthy start to any new year following Christmas. It is, however, a great way of using up those sweet, and sometimes savoury, leftovers that we all buy too much of just because it is the festive period.
Making rocky road is so easy and being a no bake treat, it is a recipe that you can get your children involved with making too. The popcorn and nuts were actually set to me in my Degustabox UK delivery, therefore, this recipe seemed like the perfect way of using them up.
The chocolate orange creams were melted into the mixture, so the rocky road has a chocolate orange flavour,but thats fine with me. I did not think that the leftover chocolate strawberry creams would be nice in this recipe though!
Normally golden syrup would be added to the mixture, and is what has been included in the recipe details below. Actually though, I had ran out this time, so agave syrup was used in its place, which is a slight less sugarific .
Here is the recipe in full:
- 200g milk chocolate
- 150g biscuits (any type will do but I used leftover oreos and butter thins)
- 28g popcorn
- 300g mixed nuts and dried fruit
- 3 tbsp golden syrup
- 125g unsalted butter
- 100g marshamallows
- 100g cooked Christmas Pudding
- 125g chocolate orange creams
- 25g chocolate orange matchmakers
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- *topping*
- 300g milk chocolate
- white chocolate buttons
- Grease and line a deep baking tin – I used a brownie tin
- Bash the biscuits (I do this with a rolling pin in a freezer bag covered with a tea towel) to crush them and make crumbs – note they don’t need to be uniformed like when making a cheesecake I like to have some bits bigger than others. Leave to one side
- Place the chocolate, syrup, cocoa power, butter, chocolate orange creams and matchmakers into a saucepan and heat gently to melt all the ingredients together
- Remove from the heat and stir in the biscuit chunks, marshmallows, popcorn and nuts and fruit until everything is covered in the sticky chocolate sauce
- Pour the mixture into your greased baking tin and place in the fridge for a couple of hours to set Melt the milk chocolate and pour over the top of the now set base and decorate with the white chocolate buttons (optional)
- cover and keep cool until set
- Cut out your slices and store in an airtight container in the fridge - this is best eaten cold.
This looks amazing! I am now wishing I had Christmas pudding to put in some! x
thank you it was tasty x
what fab christmas photos! The rocky road looks great too. All the best for 2016. x
thank you. wishing you a great new year too x
These look fab. Sounds like you had a brilliant christmas and wishing you a greta new year too xx
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