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This easy Maltesers Rocky Road recipe is a fun and quick chocolate treat. This traybake is a take on traditional chocolate tiffin and is packed with Maltesers and marshmallows.
A simple Rocky Road recipe uses chocolate, butter and golden syrup, along with marshmallows and biscuits or other fillings of your choice.
In this recipe for Maltesers Rocky Road, the biscuits are replaced by our favourite malty rounds for a delicious chocolatey crunch.
This is one of my go-to bake sale recipes. I hope you like it as much as we do!
Why you’ll love this Maltesers Rocky Road recipe
⭐️ Super quick and no baking
⭐️Perfect treat for sharing, gifting or bake sale
⭐️ Pure indulgence for Maltesers lovers!
Notes on Chocolate
If you’ve made any of my other sweet things recipes, you’ll know that I talk a lot about the quality of chocolate in baking (and no-baking!)
I use my favourite Callebaut chocolate for this recipe and others. This chocolate is just amazing, it melts so well and really makes a difference to any recipe.
When you buy it in bulk (1kg bags at a time) from Amazon, it works out to about the same price as supermarket chocolate. A good investment I think as it really does make SUCH a difference.
This recipe uses a mixture of very dark chocolate and milk chocolate for a good balance of flavour. I wouldn’t recommend only using milk chocolate as they won’t be dense/fudgy in the same way.
A slightly different ratio if you don’t have enough of either will be fine though!
One more thing: Please DON’T USE COOKING CHOCOLATE! It has additives to stop it setting in the same way as regular chocolate.
Maltesers Rocky Road Ingredients
- Butter – Unsalted is best. NOT margarine
- Dark and milk chocolate – See the notes above
- Golden syrup – This helps to add sweetness and stops the mixture being too hard when set
- Chunky filling – This is made up of mini marshmallows and Maltesers
- Optional topping: Melted white chocolate and Maltesers (of course!)
How to make Maltesers Rocky Road
1. Mix your chocolates, butter and golden syrup together.
2. Melt it all in a bowl. I do this in the microwave in 30 second bursts to avoid burning, stirring very well in between.
3. All the mixture to cool slightly, then mix in the marshmallows and Maltesers. Put the mixture into your lined tin and press to even out.
4. If you’re adding the topping, melt your white chocolate and pour over the top, and pop on your extra Maltesers. Set in the fridge before cutting into squares.
Hint: If the slab of Maltesers Rocky Road is too hard to cut straight out of the fridge, allow it to come to room temperature for 30 minutes first.
Storing
Once the Rocky Road has set, it can be kept at room temperature, unless it’s a warm day and then it would be much better in the fridge.
Melting the chocolate
You can melt your chocolate mixture either in a saucepan or in the microwave.
If using a saucepan, only use a very, very low heat or the chocolate, butter, syrup mixture will seize and go grainy. I also find it helps to put the butter in first and let it melt a little, so that the chocolate isn’t touching the bottom of the pan.
If melting your chocolate mixture in the microwave, use a large bowl and microwave in 30 second bursts, being sure to mix very well between each burst.
The mixing is really important as it distributes the action of the microwave and speeds the process up without causing any burning.
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FAQs
Depending on where you’re from, Rocky Road can mean different things..
Some swear on fruit and nuts being involved, in some countries it’s a traybake (like here in the UK), whereas some see it as more of an ice cream flavour (like in the US).
Meanwhile, in Australia, it is similar to ours but doesn’t tend to include biscuits.
In this recipe, we’re going for the classic no bake tiffin style with biscuits for crunch, marshmallow for gooey squidginess and melted chocolate. The addition of golden syrup and butter stops it from being too hard.
I usually use a tin like this for my rocky roads or tray bakes. It measures 20cm x 20cm and gets the best thickness. You can use another size or shape but just be aware your squares might be thinner or thicker.
Definitely! Make sure you do this so you can get the Rocky Road out quicker and without breaking it. I use baking parchment or baking paper for almost everything I bake. No sticking, ever.
I buy it in bulk from Amazon so I don’t run out, and it works out cheaper. Be careful not to confuse it with greaseproof paper, which isn’t suitable for no-bake cakes.
In the rare chance this isn’t all eaten immediately, it should be fine for up to a week. After that the marshmallows tend to get very sticky and wet where they’ve been cut.
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Maltesers Rocky Road {No Bake Recipe}
Ingredients
- 150 g Butter
- 200 g Milk chocolate
- 200 g Dark chocolate
- 4 tbsp Golden syrup
- 300 g Maltesers
- 180 g Mini marshmallows
To decorate:
- 200 g White chocolate
- 100 g Maltesers
Instructions
- Melt the butter, milk chocolate, dark chocolate and golden syrup together and stir thoroughly. (See recipe tips above regarding melting.)
- Allow the chocolate to cool slightly and then stir in the Maltesers and mini marshmallows.
- Line a square (about 20cm x 20cm) baking tin with baking paper and press the mixture firmly in.
- Melt the white chocolate and pour all over the top. Press in the remaining Maltesers.
- Allow to set in the fridge for at least a couple of hours.
- Turn out of the tin and cut into small chunks using a very sharp knife.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I was bought a huge box of Maltesers as a gift – this was the perfect recipe for them! Delicious.
It is amazing
THANK you for this recipe
My grand daughter will be over the moon
She loves baking traybakes
I wish there was a cool book with only
TRAY BAKE RECIPES IN IT
sold my house last week to a delightful couple. They came over a few days later to have a chat without agents following them around.
I discovered your Lemon Drizzle Cake recipe.
Made it. It looked lovely. When they called we had coffee & cake. which went down a treat
It was so moist & delish. Later that evening I had a lovely e.mail asking for the recipe. It certainly broke the ice. We are hosting a lunch for them so that they can meet some friends & neighbour’s
before they move in.
We live in Spain & are British they are Germans.
who would have thought a cake could bring us together in our adopted country Hope they will be as happy as we have been here
Love your recipes. Toni T.
Hi do you use salted or unsalted butter for this? Thanks 🙂
Oh my goodness! I love this recipe, it’s the best yet out of all the recipes so far! Thanks
I made this recipe for my son’s schools fete “Bake Off” and we won!!! My little boy gave it a big thumbs up 👍🏻
Oh wow WOOOHOOO!!! Well done on the winning bake Georgette!
I’ve just made this and oh my goodness! It’s so so good.
It’s meant to be for a works bake sale…. I may need to make more!
I also bought the chocolate you recommended from amazon for this recipe & it’s excellent. I got a set of 3 and such good value.Thanks so much for sharing this Sarah xx
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment Annette! So pleased that you liked the recipe and the chocolate. Delicious isn’t it?!
Hi hun going to give this ago how much of each chocolate did u use and can u use Cadbury and bournvill thank u
Didnt know if this would work without using biscuits as the usual ‘base’ but it does! And works brilliantly, so easy to make and the family’s love it. Great recipe!
I have just discovered this site, thank you so very much, its great and I’ll be letting others know about for sure.
Ob my god these are amazing. Made them tonight an went down a storm. With requests to never let them run out. An I am not the best cook in the world so easy to make. Thank you
Ahh so pleased you like it Nicola!