Saturday 21 June 2014

Rocky Road

I felt like a naughty chocolatey treat and making some rocky road seemed like the perfect solution.


I had to work fast, as the sun was beating down on that chocolate!  (If I'd taken more time I would have probably cleaned up the chocolate smears on the plate - but I didn't notice them at the time - I'll never make a professional photographer!)

The recipe was from a book my dear friend Anna gave me as a house-warming present...


Peggy Porschen's Boutique Baking, recipe "Chocolate Crunch Cake with Marshmallows and Pistachios".  "Rocky Road" was a snappier post name, though!  Also, I skipped the pistachios and the hazelnuts that the recipe called for.  I popped to the local shop to get the bits I needed, and I'd have had to remortgage the house to afford the nuts at those prices!!  I'm not that keen on nuts, so I'm happy anyway.

I made it last night, and the Lumberjack and I had a piece each in bed this morning with a cup of tea - how decadent!!  That's my kind of breakfast!


I hope you're all enjoying the beautiful weather!



9 comments:

  1. A lovely decadent breakfast indeed!! Pistachios can be crazily expensive can't they, but peanuts - salted or not - work really well in rocky road if you ever do want to add some nuts. Happy chocolate!! xx

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  2. I'll have that breakfast any day! Glad the book is of use! And what a lovely day.. Also I was gonna tell you - I think they said on the radio there is an Oxfordshire Lumberjack competition...I might have missheard but fun if there is one! xx

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  3. That cookbook is on my Wish List, looks like it's a good purchase! Yum - that looks like a perfect start to the day! Chrissie xxx

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  4. Oh yum I love rocky road. It sounds like a perfect breakfast too!
    Marianne x

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  5. OOh I love Rocky Road and yours looks gorgeously tempting displayed on such a pretty plate. I must get that book for my baking enthusiast daughter so she'll make me some! Alison xx

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  6. Sounds like my sort of breakfast! xx

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  7. Love the new header!!! xxx

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  8. This is just what I need to see on a Tuesday morning! Ugh, this looks so delicious M-Dog. I'm trying to be so good as we're going away next week = skimpy clothes and tiny women will be decking the cruise and all I want to do is roll around in cake and bathe in wine.

    p.s. I so want to come around and stay in your B&B. It would be such fun and I'd swoon at all your adorable designs. And then we'd talk smack for 6 hours. xx

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